Stannary adj. Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. "The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record."
... week I received from him a parcel of MS. with a letter saying that he had come across it, "a fly in amber," in turning over a pile of old Stannary records. How it had found its way among them ... — The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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