OF CORNWALL. 193 
Lord-warden, by cominiflion from the Duke of Cornwall, or from 
the Crown, if there be no Duke ", ifi'ues his precept to the four 
principal towns of the ftannary diftridts, viz. Lancefton for Fawy- 
moor, Loftwythiel for Black-moor, Truro for Trewarnheyl, and Hel- 
lion for Penwith. Each town chufes fix members, and the twenty- 
four fo chofen, called Stannators, conftitute the parliament of tin- 
ners. In the reign of Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh being Lord- 
warden, the tinners perceiving that by the charter of Henry VII. 
no law could be ena&ed, unlefs the full number of twenty-four 
ftannators concurred *, propofed that twenty-four other ftannators 
fhould be chofen, fix at each of the tin-courts holden for each flan- 
nary, returned by the fleward and added to the former number, in 
order to make forty-eight members ; and that the majority of that 
number, or as many as fhould affemble of that number, fhould be 
enabled to make laws : This propofal did not take effect ; but in the 
twenty-fixth of Charles II. 1674, fome terms and claims infilled 
upon by the Crown meeting with great oppofition, the ftannators, 
being under difficulties, named to the then Vice- warden fix perfons 
for each ftannary, and defired they might be fummoned by the 
Vice-warden to meet and confult with that convocation +. Since 
that time it is ufual, but not necefiary, for every ftannator to name 
an afliftant, and the twenty-four afliftants are a kind of Handing 
council, and affemble in a different apartment, and are at hand 
to inform their principals of calculations, difficulties, and the ftate 
of things among the lower clafs of tinners, fuch as the ftannators 
might not otherwife be fo well acquainted with. The ftannators, 
for the more orderly difpatch of bufinefs, chufe their fpeaker, and 
prefent him to the Lord-warden to be approved. Whatever is 
enabled by this body of tinners, muft be figned by the ftannators, 
the Lord-warden, (or his deputy, the Vice-warden who prefides in 
his abfence) and afterwards either by the Duke of Cornwall or the 
fovereign ; and when thus paffed, has all the authority, with regard 
to tin-affairs, of an a£t of the whole legiflature. 
The prefent Lord Warden is the Right Honourable Earl of 
Waldegrave. 
Reverend Walter Borlafe, L L. D. Vice-warden. 
The prefent ftannators of the tin-parliament, continued by ad- 
journment and prorogation, are, for the 
Stannary of Fawy-moor, 
Sir J. Molefworth of Pencarrow, Baronet. 
Sir J. St. Aubyn of Clowance, Baronet. 
» The eldeft fon of the King is Duke of Corn- 
wall, without grant or inveftiture ; but if this 
fon dies, and leaves children, his eldeft fon cannot 
be Duke of Cornwall without grant, but the 
title remains in the Crown. > 
* See page preceding. t Mr. Hawkins s Mb. 
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