Excerpt from Magna Brittanica, Vol. 3: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain
Carew fays, that the firlt charter of privileges was Obtained by the lords of the tithings in Black. More, of Edmund Earl of Cornwall; that the Stannary courts, and the power of holding parlia ments (though it does not appear to have been exercifed), were granted by this charter, which was to be kept in one of the church lteeples, but was not extant in his time. This he ltates on the authority of Mr. Wm. Carnfew (vice-warden), who had teen the charter; by which it is faid, that the tax of a halfpenny to the Earl for every pound of tin was firlt fixed, and the coinage of it appomted. Mr. Tonkin, on the authority of a book which he quotes, called The Bailiff of Blackmore, lays that this charter was obtained of King Edward I. In 1305 that it was kept in the tower of Luxulian church, whence, for greater fecurity during the civ11 war, it was removed to Loltwithiel, and there deltroyed with other Stannary records, by the Earl of Ell'ex's army, in 1644. (see Lord de Dun fianville's edition of Carew'e Survey.)
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