188 THE TIN TRADE OF CORNWALL. 
weighing are shewn, and the aggregate weight, together with the 
amount of toll charged thereon. These Volumes contain the 
accounts for Devon as well as Cornwall; and the Table of Tolls 
set out on the first leaf of the second Volume shews the great 
disparity in the rates levied in the respective counties. The fol- 
lowing is the Table for Cornwall :— 
[ (OHO MNES Gooogag0oboGDeGDbDOu0ONS iiijs 
xx 
The rate yearly answered for lily <vily) Librasieceeeeeeeecm enor liijs 
goeee a oe under ij Xviij libras to 1 libras ob. de libr 
xl vaip labvas’. ecco sole eee ijs 
under xl viigililbrash peters ob. de libr 
Whilst the toll in Cornwall was 40% per 1000lbs., in Devon it 
was 15%: 74% only for the same weight. 
The first of the two volumes commences in the 15™ year of 
Elizabeth, and ends in the 29 year of that sovereign; but the 
statements for the first four years are imperfect. I have there- 
fore abstracted the accounts for the 19 Eliz., or 1577, as the first 
year, and have made similar abstracts at intervals of 10 years - 
during the period to 1607. The accounts extend to 1611, but in 
the subsequent years there is very little variation in quantity from 
the year 1607. In 1611 the yield was 1,012,500lbs. 
I annex a Table shewing the quantity of tin weighed at the 
four authorized Coinage Towns in 34 Edw. I (1305) and at the 
several decennial periods embraced in the later accounts. Whilst 
the tin-producing districts had greatly changed (as we shall notice 
presently), the general yield remained much the same, the average 
annual production for the later period being 942,678lbs., as com- 
pared with 865,562lbs.* raised in 1305. Considering the great 
difference in the value of money at the two periods, it is obvious 
that the revenue derived by Elizabeth from the Stannaries of 
Cornwall was far inferior to that of her distant ancestor. 
The two Coinage Towns in the East of Cornwall in 1305 were 
Lostwithiel and Bodmin. The tin weighed in that year in those 
« It may be here noticed that the additions in the original Roll are in 
several places very incorrect. 
