Here foloyth the confirmation of the Charter perteynynge to all the tynners wythyn the cou[n]tey of Deuonshyre/ wyth there statutes also made at Crockeryntorre by the hole asse[n]t and conse[n]t of al the sayd tynners. Yn the yere of the reygne of oure soverayne lord kynge Henry ye viij. the secu[n]d yere ['The Tinners' Charter']
Description
Commonly referred to as 'The Tinners' Charter'. The only surviving
copy: "Within a year of the Great Court of 1533, the newly
established printing press at Tavistock Abbey (the first in the
county) published a book containing the Statutes of the Great
Courts of 1510, 1532 and 1533, plus a copy of the Charter of Edward
I. One copy of this book survives, in the library of Exeter College
Oxford." ( T.A.P. Greeves. The Great Courts or Parliaments of Devon
Tinners 1474-1786. Rep. Trans. Devon. Ass. Advmt. Sci. 119, pp.
145-167, December 1987).
Extent: 56 pages. Quarto. 220 x 160 mm.
Decoration: Woodcut illustrations.
Binding: 17th or 18th century blind-tooled panelled reverse calf
over pasteboards.
Provenance: Given to Exeter College by Joseph Sanford, a fellow
commoner of Exeter. Manuscript inscription on recto of first free
endpaper: "Lib. Sanf."
