STANNARY ROLL, 34TH EDWARD I. 239 



to farm. We find of record, that the King owed a sum of .£750 

 to one William Servat, for wine supplied for the King's use, and 

 all the issues of the coinage of the King's tin growing in Corn- 

 wall were assigned to the said William, for the full term of one 

 year thence ensuing ; and it was provided that if the said William 

 failed to collect 700 marks from the said coinage dues, the balance 

 should be paid to him in the wardrobe.* 



In 33rd Edw. I. Thomas de la Hyde, John de Treddewy, Philip 

 le Wenche, Thomas de Lostwell, Henry de Pridias, Philip de 

 Medros, and John le Toller, paid a fine of 100 marks to the King, 

 to have the King's Charter for liberties granted to the miners 

 working in the Stannaries in Cornwall. 



In the 34th year of this reign we have another Eoll, apper- 

 taining to the shrievalty of Thomas de la Hyde.t An abstract of 

 this Eoll we have the pleasure of laying before the members of 

 the Institution, as a specimen of these documents. We have 

 shewn the totals only of the tin weighed by each merchant or 

 owner, at the several weighings, and the sum of the dues thereon, 

 giving the names of such merchants ; which are, we consider, of 

 no small interest, as shewing the old Cornish families which at 

 this early period were dealers in this great commodity. Some of 

 these names are still extant in the County. For the better illus- 

 tration of the Roll, we have had a small portion executed in fac- 

 simile,! which will shew all the details alluded to above. This 

 particular portion was selected because it shews a remarkable 

 way of writing the name Truro — Truuuru. It occurs, contracted 

 in two different forms in the two first lines in this specimen, 

 and in several other places on the Roll. 



This Roll commences on Wednesday next after and 



ends on Wednesday in the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle 

 (Sept. 21). It consists of 14 membranes of vellum, about 4f inches 

 in breadth, written on both sides. The other Rolls resemble it in 



* Originalia Eolls, 82nd Edw. I, No. 133. 



t Pipe Office, Sheriffs' Accounts, No. 374, Boll 2. 



I This is an excellent fac-simile, representing the original most per- 

 fectly, both in the tone of the vellum and colour of the ink. It was executed 

 by the Heliotype process, by Messrs. Edwards and Kidd, 22, Henrietta Street, 

 Covent Garden. \Ye consider it far superior in clearness to the photozinco- 

 graphio process. 



