JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 
No. XV. APRIL. 1874. 
I.—The Tin Trade of Cornwall in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, 
compared with that of Edward I.—By Str JOHN MACLEAN, 
E.S.A., Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 
Read at the Spring Meeting, May 16, 1873. 
(ee years ago, the Loyal Institution of Cornwall did me the 
honour to receive a Paper containing some remarks on a 
Stannary Roll of 34th Edward I, and on some other similar 
Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office. Those Rolls shed 
considerable light on the production of Tin in the County of 
Cornwall in the early part of the 14th Century. 
I have recently found, among the Miscellaneous Books of the 
Augmentation Office,* two paper books of accounts which contain 
statements of the quantity of Tin coined at the four authorized 
Coinage Towns in the County during the greater part of the reign 
of Queen Elizabeth and in the early part of that of James I. 
Except that the names of the parties to whom the tin belonged 
are not given, as in the early Roll printed in the Journal of the 
Institution for 1871, these accounts contain much the same informa- 
tion. ‘The number of the “pieces,” or blocks, of tin at each 
* Vols. 355 and 356. 
