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92 DUN HE VED. aforesaid croft, on the north part, between the garden lately of William le Maystre and the croft of Alice Mounteyn. Witnesses : Roger Stachard, Mayor, John Biachm, and Richard Pomerey, Provosts, John Cnoyl, and Reginald de Tavistok. Given at the borough aforesaid on the Wednesday next before the feast of St. Michael, 20 Ed. II. Edward III. ascended the throne in 1327, and in 1329 created his brother, John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall. In 1 33 1 Henry Dobil granted to John Colyn, the son of John Colyn, on the homage and fealty of Richard Doon, the son of Nicholas Doon — Urpadoune, 6d. yearly to issue out of a tenement in the free borough of Dounheved, in the street which is called Bastehaye, which tenement is situate outside the Northgate of the borough, between the tenement of Ralph Germayn, on the one part, and the tenement of Ade Keech, which was heretofore of William Witta, on the other part. Witnesses : Reginald de Tavi- stoke, Mayor, David Cresa and Walter Scoldefinger, Provosts, Richard Mil, and Henry Brackysh, clerk. Given at the borough the Thursday next before the feast of St. Lawrence, in the year of the Lord mcccxxxi. In 1332 Thomas, the son and heir of William Gyffard, lately a citizen of Winchester, granted to Walter Scoldefynger, of Launceton, and Robert Page, of Launceston, a tenement in the town of the free borough of Duneheved, in a street called Wester Frensh Castel stret [query, Was the Castle ever called the French Castle in consequence of its having been possessed, or on the assumption that it was built, by the Norman- French ?], between a tenement lately of William Godrych on the east part, and a tenement of Peter Bele on the west part. He granted also to the said Walter and Robert another tenement in the aforesaid town, between the tenement lately of John Knoyl on the one part, and a tenement of Henry Tryst on the other part, which tenements descended to the grantor as heir of William his father in the town aforesaid. Wit- nesses : Reginald de Tavestoka, Mayor of Duneheved, David Crese, Provost, Henry Bodi, John Wolfolk, Robert de Ponton, Richard Cork, and John Kech. Dated at Winchester on the day of March next after the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, 5th Ed. III.