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120 DUNHEVEI). aforesaid Chapel, where it may be more commodiously lawfully erected : To have and to hold to the said John and his successors, of us and our successors, in pure and perpetual alms for ever : In testimony whereof to one part of this writing, indented, remaining with the said John and his successors, the seal of the whole Town aforesaid is appended, and the other part, remaining with the Mayor and Commonalty and their successors, is sealed with the seal of the said John, These being the witnesses, Richard Respren, then steward of the aforesaid town, John Wysa, Esquire, Richard Trevaga, John Trelowny, Willm. Langedon, and others. Given at Launceston on Monday next after the feast of St. Katherine the Virgin [November] in the 2nd year of the reign of Henry V. after the Conquest of England. [A perfect and well-cut armorial seal is appended.] We infer that the John Trelowny who witnessed this charter was the famous knight commemorated by Mrs. Gibbons (ne'e Trelawny) in her interesting Itiiterary of Launceston. Sir John fought with Henry V. at Agincourt on the 25th October following the date of this deed (141 5). Mrs. Gibbons mentions the tradition that, over the south gate of Dunheved, under the King's own portrait, was the distich — "He that will do aught for mee Let him love well Sir John Tirlawnee." This Sir John Trelawny married Agnes, the daughter of Robert Tregodack [Treguddick, in Southpetherwin] and was, at that time, owner of the mansion and estate of Trelawny in Altarnun. We very much regret that we have no record of local transactions during the years 141 5-17. The site of St. John's Chapel is still known, but the fabric has disappeared. It stood near the fording-place over Harper's Lake (page 14), about a furlong south-west of the Castle, by the side of the king's highway which led from the Westgate of the town towards Landreyne, Pennygillam Cross (not the modern Pennygillam Cross-