Stannary Convocation of Devon

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Devon Stannary Parliament Konsel Stenegow Dewnens
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Established	1201
Disbanded	1748 (last session, never formally abolished)
Succeeded by	Parliament of Great Britain
Seats	96
Elections
Voting system	Election with limited suffrage
Meeting place
Crockern Tor, Dartmoor

The Stannary Convocation of Devon, also known as the Great Parliament of the Tinners or as the Devon Stannary Parliament, was an assembly in the English county of Devon, with the power to amend and expand the stannary law in the county. Initially assembled in the Middle Ages by the Lord Warden of the Stannaries, the Stannary Convocation developed out of the predecessor to the judicial Courts of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries (which were abolished in 1896) but was established as an institution in its own right by the sixteenth century, with the power to both proclaim the existing customs as English law and to legislate regarding the laws by which tinners, who were exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary English courts until 1896, conducted their business.