James Robyns was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1660.

Robyns was born before 1625 and became an attorney. He had an estate at Penryn and obtained a reversion of the assay of tin from King Charles I. His estate was sequestered in 1652 but was discharged a year later as there was no evidence of delinquency.

In 1660, Robyns was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Penryn

Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)

Penryn was a parliamentary borough in Cornwall, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England from 1553 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to until 1832...

 in the Convention Parliament. He became saymaster of the stannaries

Stannary

The word stannary is historically applied to:*A tin mine, especially in Cornwall or Devon, South West England*A region containing tin works *A chartered entity comprising such a region, its works, and its workers...

 in 1661. He was steward of Penryn and Helston manors and commissioner for assessment for Cornwall from 1664 to 1674 and was stannator for Penwith and Kerrier in 1673.

Robyns died after 1682.

Robyns' daughter married Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 2nd Baronet.