IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 673
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Hill, John
Date(s): c1703
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Hill | John | fl 1703 | [tin miner]
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Cornish tin industry became so important during the Middle Ages that the Cornish tin miners were granted special privileges and were placed by the crown under the separate legal jurisdiction of the stannary (tin mine) courts. Cormwall had four stannaries: Foymore, Blackmore, Tywarnhaile and Penwith and Kerrier.Thomas Pearce, in his work on The Laws and customes of the stannaries (1725) records a convocation of the stannators of Cornwall held at Truro in 1703. A Thomas Hawkins and a John Hill are both to be found in A list of all the Adventurers in the Mine Adventure, 1700.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A volume entitled Customs of ye Stanarys & Journall of ye Convocators 1703. It relates chiefly to the stannary of Blackmore, but also other Cornish stannaries. Concludes with a note that information used 'were copied out of a manuscript I had of Mr Thomas Hawkins. Signed John Hill.'
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Bought, through Mrs. E. Finer, from the Par (Cornubia Hall) sale of October 1965.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: 2000-02-23 Joseph Gelfer