Toll tin explained

Toll tin or tin toll was a toll payable^[1] in tin mining in Devon and Cornwall in south-west England. The holder of a set of tin bounds was required to pay the freeholder of the land on which the bounds had been pitched a portion, called toll tin, of the tin ore (or black tin) extracted.

Toll tin became due as soon as the ore was broken from the ground and, although some freeholders may have taken it in this form, it is likely that others opted for the more practical approach of taking it as a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the refined tin (or white tin).

Toll tin was not the only way in which a miner's share of the tin extracted was reduced — he was also required to pay a tax to the Crown on the refined tin, known as tin coinage, before the tin could legally be sold.

See also

• Dartmoor tin mining

References

• "Tin toll continues" (1986) 55 Mining Magazine 77 (No 2)
• 1989 Minerals Yearbook. p 237.
• Pennington. "Toll Tin". Stannary Law: A History of the Mining Law of Cornwall and Devon. 1973. p 87. Google
• Mews. A Digest of the Reported Decisions. vol 6. cols 500 & 501.
• Jacob. An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts . . . of England. 1881. vol 7. col 10251.
• "Rating Tin Toll". A Supplement to Harrison's Analytical Digest. 1846. vol 5. col 1293.
• Fisher. A Digest of the Reported Cases. 1870. vol 4. col 6720.
• Deacon. A Guide to Magistrates Out of Sessions. 1843. vol 2. p 819.
• Smith. Quarter Sessions Practice. 1882. p 392.
• Bainbridge and Brown. A Treatise on the Law of Mines and Minerals. 4th Ed. 1879. pp 148, 149 to 151, 157, 158, 448, 766 & 767.
• Rogers. The Law Relating to Mines, Minerals, and Quarries. 2nd Ed. 1876. pp 466, 472, 474, 484, 489, 491 & 493.
• MacSwinney and Bristowe. The Law of Mines, Quarries, and Minerals. 2nd Ed. 1897. pp 48, 189, 496 & 497.
• Collier. A Treatise on the Law Relating to Mines. 1849. pp 18, 36, 40 & 41.
• Morrison. Digest of the Law of Mines and Minerals. 1878. pp 101, 283, 321 & 377.
• Hall. A Treatise on the Law Relating to Profits À Prendre and Rights of Common. 1871. pp 224, 225, 226 and 229.
• J H Balfour Browne and D Norman M'Naughton. The Principles of the Law of Rating of Hereditaments. 1886. pp 479 & 481.
• Parker. "Tin Mines, Tin Toll". A Digest of the Law Relating to the Relief of the Poor. 1849. p 620. See also p 308.
• Sugden. A Practical Treatise of Powers. 7th Ed. 1845. vol 2. p 414. 3rd American Ed. 1856. vol 2. p 370.
• Shelford. The General Highway Act. 1845. p 60.

Notes and References

1. Holthouse. "Toll-Tin". A New Law Dictionary. Edited by Pennington. Philadelphia. 1847. p 432.