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84 DUNHEVED. be received yearly from his farm of the Castle of Dunheved, saving to the said prior and convent the rent of twenty shillings, which they have yearly from the prepositure of the Castle aforesaid for the market aforesaid, by charters of the Earl Reginald which he produces, which attest the same. He produces also a certain charter of Richard, lately Earl of Poictou and Cornwall, in which is contained what the said Richard gave from the impulse of charity, to the prior of Lanceueton, and the canons there serving God, in pure and perpetual alms (viz) 5s. Tod. to be received yearly, from the burgesses of Dunheved, to illuminate [the image of] the Blessed Mary, and bound himself and his heirs to warrant, &c. Wherefore he says that he has not received the aforesaid sixty-five shillings and tenpence for giving up the aforesaid takings, as above represented, and he seeks judgment, &c. And, because it is found by the jurors elected for the purpose, together with the jurors of the hundred of Estwev- eleshir, in which the town of Launceuton is, that the aforesaid burgesses have not paid the said rent of sixty-five shillings and tenpence to the aforesaid prior and canons for the aforesaid takings, but for the transferred market and alms given, and that the said prior and his predecessors had the said takings, from the time aforesaid even until now, namely, of one moiety of the profits of the said takings, It is granted that the aforesaid prior shall go without day, saving the right of the Lord the King, &c. We have now briefly traced, from the Conquest to the beginning of the fourteenth century, the progress of Dun- heved, the secular rival of its ecclesiastical neighbour. Both boroughs had been fostered by successive Earls of Cornwall, and by successive monarchs. This may in part account for the subsequent confusion and eventual blending of the two names, sometimes into Launceston alone, at others into Dunheved alias Launceston. We believe it is impossible now to decide whether the assize court, men- tioned in the pleadings which we have just cited, was actually held in the Priory Buildings at " Launceston," or in the then new Guildhall at Dunheved. We shall how- ever find that, for centuries after the litigation of 1302, the