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BOROUGH ACCOUNTS. 93 In 1334 John Page granted to Stephen le Helyer and John his son a certain place of his land lying outside the Southgate of the borough of Dounheved, between the tenement which was of Stephen la Prouta on the one part, and the croft of the grantor on the other part, which place contained in itself 42 ft. in length and 37 ft. in breadth. Witnesses : Richard Miles, Mayor, John Begha and Richard Moriek, Provosts, Richard Cork, Henry Brackych, and Walter Lacy. Given on Monday in the Vigils of the Apostles Peter & Paul, 7 Ed. III. Happily we shall be able henceforth to give occasional extracts from the Borough accounts. These Parchment 11 Rolls " concern only local matters, and no duplicate of them is likely to exist. The earliest in our possession is for the year 1334. It commences thus : [Trans.] f Memorandum that on the Wednesday next before the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, in the seventh year of the reign of King Edward III. after the Conquest, Sir (Dominus) Thomas Kynychet, and Richard Port, stewards of the Commonalty, rendered an account before Richard of Sutton [Plymouth], Mayor, Richard Milis, Adam Kech, Reginald of Tavistok, Luke LerTayra, Richard Port, and others, auditors of the Commonalty, for the whole of the past year, viz. : ^21 17s. 9|d. received, &c. Then are entered arrears collected from the keeper of the church stores ; from several persons for stones sold from the quarry ; from Lant the glover, Richard the tailor, of Lifton, and two others for entrances to the guild ; from church rents ; from the keeper of the quarry ; from the collectors of taxes for the preceding year; and in respect of "what is called Bodierislond." Under dates of certain feasts, as, " Friday next after the feast of St. Catherine," "Wednesday next after the feast of St. Lucie, the Virgin," the "feast of the Purification," " Friday next after the feast of the exaltation of the Holy Cross," are entries of receipts for rent of the mill ; for wax [candles] for the church ; for the fish stalls ; for ale