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ioo DUNHEVED. the motto, Ick Diai, which his successors, Princes of Wales, have ever since used as their badge. In 1 35 1 we find this deed : We, John Spenser, Mayor of the free borough of Uounhed, and all the Aldermen, have granted to John Fernedon, Christina his wife, and their heirs, all our tenement, with the garden to the same adjoining, situate in the borough aforesaid, in a street which is called Castalstrete, between the tenement which was lately of John Hude on the one part, and the tenement of Philip Onery on the other part. The witnesses named are, William Begha, and Edward Baker, Provosts, William Goderych, Henry Tawer, and William Wyles. Given at the borough at the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, the Virgin. In 1355 is a grant from William Lygha to Sir Simon Scholde- fynger, Chaplain, of twelve pence yearly, issuing out of all that tenement in a street in the free borough of Dounheved, near the Westgate of the same borough. Witnesses: Thomas Pleyndeamor, Mayor, John Pieres, and William Cory, Provosts, John Lygha, and William Bakerbegha. Given at the borough in the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, in the year of the Lord 1355. The following is a translation from the Norman-French of Letters Patent of the Black Prince. The original is at Dunheved. It will be noticed that it bears date less than a month before the battle of Poictiers. Edward, eldest son of the noble King of England and of France, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester, To all those who shall see or hear these Letters, greeting. Whereas our burgesses of the Town of Launceueton have, in these times, in divers places, been inconvenienced by paying Toll, Picage, Passage, Murage and Pannage. We cause you to know that our said burgesses have been, and ought, in all places throughout England, (as other burgesses of all the other boroughs which are of our Duchy of Cornwall, have, among the other franchises which they have had and used from time whereof memory runneth not, and which have been allowed to them in use) to be discharged from such Toll, Picage and Passage, and Murage and Pannage. In testimony whereof we have caused to be made these our