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ANCIENT DEEDS. 103 Page, on the other part. Witnesses : John de Trethewy, Alan Cranford, Richard Cresa, John Farnhill, and Richard Cokeworthy. On the 8th June, 1376, the Black Prince died; and on the 20th November following, his father, who had survived him, created Richard, son of the Black Prince, Duke of Cornwall. In October, 1376, we have a grant from John Trethewy, Mayor of the borough, and all the Commonalty of the same borough, to John Gyles, of the grantors' shop, with a cellar, situate in the quadruno of the borough. The witnesses to the deed are John Trethewy, Mayor, John Lydeforth and John Core, Provosts, Richard Port, Alan Craneford, and Robert Page. Given on Wednesday in the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, 49 Ed. III. [This deed is much defaced by damp, but a perfect seal is appended to it]" 1377. Grant from Johanna, who was the wife of William Begha, to Robert Pyk, of her croft which lay outside the South- gate of the free borough of Dounhevid, between the Royal highway which leads from the said gate, which leads right to the head ["rette ad caput"] of Throcombe, on the east of the gate, and the croft of John Keary on the west part, and between the croft which was of Thomas Milis on the south part, and the garden of John Cork on the north part. Witnesses : John Farnhille, Mayor, William Caldidow and Richard Body, Provosts, John Page, Alan Cran- forde, Sampson Attewille, and Richard Cresa. Given at the borough in Lent, 50 Ed. III. King Edward III. died on the 22nd June, 1377, and his grandson Richard II., already named, succeeded to the throne. In August of that year (1377) is this grant : We, Sampson Attewille, Mayor of the borough of Dounheved, and the eight Aldermen of the same borough, with the consent of all the Commonalty there, have given, &c, to Robert Bylker and Alice his wife one place of land, in the borough, in the street called Bastestret, between the tenement of the Prior of Launceton on the one part and a tenement of the same Prior on the other part, which was lately of John Wynna, &c. Witnesses : Serlone