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ACCOUNTS. 125 (to secure his services as member of parliament for Dunheved); for bread and ale given to the same Nicholas, 3d.; for wages to John Mortyn, for making of "one dresser," 5d.; for two "millstonis" bought of John Kena, 9s.; for repairing one table which stands at the door of the Guildhall, 3d.; for parchment for roll and indentures, i2d. Rents Paid: Rent paid to the co-heirs of Landew for the field late Pontons ; to John Colman for a field at the "barbiganne;" to the heirs of William Colyn, for a field of the Blessed Mary ; to Walter Paris, for a tenement in Castil- strete, 4jd. ; to John Cokeworthi, for Choghewall, 8d. ; for a garden of William Tarep, in Baststrete, 4d. ; to Roger Men- ewynnek and Robert Horn, Provosts, for fee farm, with rent of the mill, 50s.; for rent paid to the same for Wynna tenement, 6d. Extra Expenses: For hay bought for the Justices at the Lent Assizes, 2od.; for one quarter of oats, 2s. id.; for "one dosyn " of white bread, i2d. ; for "one dosyn" of horse bread, i2d.; for lodgings for the Justices at the same time, 2s. iod. ; for wages to William Smayke's son, for being upon the bell [tower] to see the Judges when they came to the town on two occasions, id.; for the taxation of the lord the King, a 3rd part of a 15th, 18s. nd. ; for hay bought for the Justices in the feast of St. Peter [Summer Assizes], &c. Paid John Palmer and Nicholas Aisscheton, burgesses in parliament, 13s. 4d. On the back of the same parchment, among other entries, are the following, Expended for wine: For one flagon of white wine given to the Prior of Launceston, and Thomas Carmynow, when they came among the burgesses, 8d. ; one potel of red wine given to the same men, 3d. ; one flagon of wine which the Mayor and his companion drank when the " goldsmyth of Bodmyn " brought home the silver cup, 8d.; for three potels of wine given to the Prior of Launceston, &c. One potel of wine was given to Edward Borneby when his mother was buried, 3d. ; for wine given to the lord of Botreaux when he was here in Lent, id.; for one flagon of wine given to the Justices when they came from Botrius Castell to this town, 6d. The total expenditure for. the year is ^37 10s. 2^d. At the foot of the endorsement on the roll are noted, Arrears for the Hitlondj the Gilhalle and Pillory, for Bodmam and Gybbe refits, for the Pix, for the far 771 of the Mill, a7id for e7itra7ices of burgesses. Deed dated 1436 : We, Walter Page, Mayor of the free borough