Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/100

82 DUNHEVED. deeds as owner of a garden adjoining Bodier's quarry, of which quarry more will hereafter be said. The Earl Edmund died in the year 1300, whereupon Cornwall reverted to the King Edward I. In the 30th year of Edward I. [1302] disputes arose between the Burgesses of Launceston and the Burgesses of Dunheved concerning their mutual rights and liberties. The litigants brought the matter before the Judges of Assize at Launceston. We give a translation of the plead- ings (slightly abbreviated) : Pleas of the Jurors and Assizes before John de Berewyk, William de Burneton, Henry Spygurnel, John Randolf and Henry de Staunton, Justices Itinerant at Launceueton in the county of Cornwall, in the octave of St. Michael, in the 30th year of the reign of King Edward the son of King Henry, viz. concerning the liberties which the burgesses of that Borough [Launceston] say they claim to have to regulate the assize of bread and ale, pillory and tumberel, in the same Borough, they know not by what warrant; — Therefore it is commanded that the Sheriff compel them to come : Afterwards the aforesaid burgesses come and say that they and all the burgesses of the said borough have held the aforesaid liberties, and have fully used them, without interruption or interference of the Lord the King, from the time whereof no memory exists, and they ask that this may be inquired of by the country : And the jurors of the hundred of Estwyv- eleshir, together with the knights chosen for the service, upon their oath say that the aforesaid burgesses have, in the borough aforesaid, the regulation of the assize of bread and ale, pillory and tumberel, and that they and all the burgesses their predeces- sors held the aforesaid liberties, and used them from the time whereof memory does not exist; Therefore the aforesaid burgesses, as to this, go without day, saving the right of the Lord the King &c. The jurors present that the burgesses of Dunheved hold that borough in chief of the Lord the King, at feefarm, rendering for the same to the Lord the King one hundred shillings, and one pound of pepper yearly, and also rendering to the Lord the King seven shillings and sixpence from escheats which happened in the time of Richard late Earl of Cornwall. The same jurors present