1. Walter Raleigh, knight, vice admiral of the fleets, and warden of the stannary

2. To enforce the authority of the Stannary Courts a prison was constructed in the thirteenth century out of the keep or dungeon of Lydford Castle, about nine miles north of Tavistock; and in the sixteenth century this prison was described as "one of the most Annoyous, contagious, and detestable places in the realm."