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no DUNHEVED. County aforesaid, have held their Sessions in the said Town of Launceston, and not elsewhere within the County aforesaid, which liberty our said Burgesses, and their Predecessors, always hitherto have had, and been accustomed to have, until now of late, at the last Sessions, they were held at Lostwithiel, and our aforesaid Burgesses have besought us that, whereas it is for our advantage, and the ease and quiet of our People of those parts, that the aforesaid sessions, and deliveries, may be held in the aforesaid Town of Launceston, as before these times they have been accustomed, We are willing to grant to the same Burgesses the said Liberty from henceforward, by the strength of this our Charter : We, favourably inclining to the Prayers of our same Burgesses in this behalf, of our special grace have granted, and by this our Charter confirmed, for us and our Heirs, to our said Burgesses, and their successors, the Liberty aforesaid (that is to say) that the Justices, of us and our heirs, to take Assizes, and deliver the gaols in the County aforesaid, assigned and henceforth to be assigned, shall hold their Sessions and Gaol Deliveries in our Town of Launceston, and not elsewhere in the County aforesaid : To have and to hold to our same Burgesses, and their successors, Burgesses of the aforesaid Town of Laun- ceston, for ever, &c, These being witnesses : The Venerable Father the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Duke of York, and Thomas Duke of Gloucester, our most dear Uncles, Robert Duke of Ireland and Earl of Oxford, Chamberlain of England, Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, Marshal of England, Michael de Pole, Earl of Suffolk, our Chancellor, John de Montacute, Steward of our Household, and others. Given by our Hand at Westminster the 16th day of October, in the 12th year of our Reign. 1389. In the borough account for this year, Henry Fox being mayor, is the entry, " Received of several merchants in the Church at the Assizes, 24s.," and, in the arrear roll attached, are four entries of arrears of rent of the Blessed Mary. Parts of these are remitted in each year to the Prior and Convent of Launceston, and, in two of the cases, it is stated that the residue cannot be levied. The account for 1 390 discloses no new feature.