About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Gunnies, Royal charters applying to Cornwall, Mining in Cornwall and Devon, Camborne, South Crofty, Camborne School of Mines, East Pool mine, Stannary Courts and Parliaments, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Geevor Tin Mine, Dolcoath mine, Consolidated Mines, Cornish Institute of Engineers, Blowing house, Gwennap, Man engine, Cornish engine, Geology of Cornwall, King Edward Mine, Wheal Vor, Wheal Busy, Poldark Mine, Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, Delabole, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, William Husband, Lostwithiel Stannary Palace, Joseph Treffry, Luxulyan Valley, Poldice mine, Wheal Gorland, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, Joseph Carne, Holman Brothers, Joseph Henry Collins, Ding Dong mines, Wheal Jane, East Wheal Rose, Welcome Stranger, CSM Association, St Day, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, School of Metalliferous Mining, John Taylor, Great County Adit, Mundic, Wheal Peevor, Charles Thomas, The Miners Association, Killas, Wheal Coates, Fowey Consols mine, Mount Wellington Tin Mine, Carnglaze Caverns, Associateship of the Camborne School of Mines, Tin bounds, Bal maiden, Mining sett, Mining Exchange, Toll tin, Cornish Mines and Engines, Black tin, Farm tin, Tin coinage, White tin. Excerpt: Charters of the Kings of England which specifically relate to Cornwall, 1201 - 1508. Having been incorporated into the Kingdom of England late in the Anglo-Saxon period the constitutional status was unlike that of the rest of England in the Middle Ages, rather like a County Palatine but not designated as such. The charters below relate either to the tin mines of Cornwall and Devon or to the Earldom or Duchy of Cornwall. The stannary charters are dated between 1201 and 1508, the others between 1231 and 1338. Until the early Tudor period Cornwall existed on maps of Great Britain as a separate and distinct country fro...