stannary (stanari)

and n. [Also stannery; II. n.; pl. stannaries (-riz). A region or district in which tin is mined: the English form of the Latin stannaria (or stammaria , as written in a charter of the third year of King John, 1201). The miners themselves were called stan nato res or (rarely) stammatores . For they wrongfully claim all the County of Devon to be their Stannary. Petition to Parliament. 1 Ed. III., MS. in Rec. Office, [quoted in De La Beche's Geol. Rep. on Cornwall. If by public laws the mint were ordained to be onely supplied by our stannaries , how currently would they pa for more precious than silver mines! Bp. Hall, Select Thoughts, § 17.