Pertaining to a tin-mining district; a tin-mining district.
Through a dip in the woods presently peeped the ancient stannary town of Chagford, from the summit of its own little eminence on the eastern confines of Dartmoor.
In Browne's day it was used as the stannary prison, and was denounced in an Act of Parliament as one of the most heinous, contagious, and detestable places in the realm.'
Rosalind Northcote, Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts. Amazon
Next week I received from him a parcel of MS. with a letter saying that he had come across it, "a fly in amber," in turning over a pile of old Stannary records.
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Mayor of Troy. Amazon
Perhaps she was disturbed by events in Cornwall where a senior member of the Cornish Stannary "Parliament" has been arrested amid claims that he was part of a terrorist plot by the Cornish National Liberation Army to bomb restaurants owned by chefs Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein.
Hugh Muir, The Guardian, 21 September 2007. Guardian
By 1327, however, Truro had gained the status of stannary town, infuriating Lostwithiel which until then had been the only coinage centre in Cornwall for its tin and copper.
Unattributed, Western Morning News, 24 March 2003.
"If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock" - Solon
