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CORPORATE GRANT. 91 Reginald of Tavistok, Mayor of Dounheved, Vincent of Burkeston, and William Polifont, Provosts, John Begha the elder, and Richard Korc, clerk. In 1325 Halevisia, the widow of Roger de Smalecombe, in her widowhood, grants to her daughter Jute all the grantor's part of a garden, lying near the road leading from the Southgate of the borough of Dounheved toward Bodmam, namely, the moiety of the said garden on the east part, which descended to her by heir- ship on the death of John Trestam her brother. Witnesses : John Cnoyl, Mayor, Richard Port and Peter Reynfrey, Provosts, Roger Stachard, and William Brackysh, clerk. Given at the borough aforesaid on Wednesday next after the feast of St. Hilary the Bishop, 18 Ed. II. The following is the earliest formal grant from the Corporation of Dunheved which we have discovered : Let the present and future know that we, John Cnoyl, Mayor of the borough of Dounheved, and the eight Aldermen, with the assent, and consent of all the Burgesses of the same borough, have granted, &c, to John Panestone, his heirs and assigns, all our right and claim in a certain place lying in the same borough, in the street which is above Castelstrete, for the better convenience of his tene- ment, which is situate between the tenement of John Godrich on the one part, and a tenement of the same John Godrich on the other part, which place contains 5 ft. in length and 20 ft. in breadth. The witnesses named are Richard Port and Peter Reynfrey, then Provosts of the said borough, Richard Wondry, Henry Trist, and Richard Core, clerk. Given at the borough aforesaid on the day of March in the feast of Barnabas the Apostle, 18th Ed. II. (i325)- In 1327 Arnulph Cork granted to Richard Bertelot 6d. yearly, which he ought to receive by the hands of Henry de Cochelacote and Alice his wife, out of a croft with a garden adjoining the same, which theretofore belonged to John Colman, and lying outside the Westgate of the borough of Dounheved, between the croft which belonged to Wandric Batyn on the one part, and the Royal Way coming from the aforesaid gate, and leading towards Dounhevid Hill on the other part, and the garden aforesaid is annexed to the