Stannary Laws and Tavistock Abbey have gone, and nobody could wish for them back; but the Tavy goes on in the same old way.
"Furze the Cruel"
John Trevena
Immediately after this, he set out on what he calls his 'miserable journey into Cornwall,' no other than his customary autumn circuit through the Stannary Courts.
"Raleigh"
Edmund Gosse
Henceforward the Devonshire miners were separated from the Cornish, and held Stannary parliaments on the top of Crockern Tor.
"Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts"
Rosalind Northcote