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126 DUNNE VED. of Dounheved, and the eight Aldermen, with the unanimous consent of our Commonalty, have granted to John Mayowe, of Smalehill, and the heirs of his body, six feet of land in breadth, and thirteen feet of land in length, lying in the High Street of the borough, next adjoining the tenement of John Mayowe, as newly bounded there, under the yearly rent of sixpence sterling, and doing suit at our Court ; and if the aforesaid John Mayowe die without heirs of his body, then the premises to revert to the Mayor and Commonalty. Witnesses : William Myleton, John Palmer, Robert Cork, John Stevyn, and Thomas Cade. Given on Friday next after the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, 14 Henry VI. Corporate seal, in red wax, attached. In 1437, William Bylker, son and heir of Thomas Bylker, granted to Robert Pydler, and Anicia his wife, all messuages, lands, tenements, rents, and services belonging to him in the borough of Dounheved, together with the reversion of the jointure which Christina, the grantor's mother, had there when the same should accrue : To hold to the said Robert and Anice, and their heirs, for ever, of the chief lord of the fee of the same, by the rents and services therefor due, &c. Witnesses : William Myleton, Mayor, John Stevyn, Thomas Cade, Nicholas Hornebroke, and John Burnebury. Given at " Kyngsbrydge " on the Sunday before the feast of Philip and James, 15 Henry VI. 1440. I, John Wondry, grant to Serle Wondry, my son, one yearly rent of i2d., to be levied at the feast of St. Michael, issuing out of a tenement situated in the free borough of Doun- heved, in a certain street there called Bastestret, held by the heirs of Thomas Calle, on the one part, and a tenement of John Berball on the other part. Witnesses : John Mayow, Mayor, Henry Basely and William Reynward, Provosts ; Walter Page and John Stevyn the elder. Given at the borough on the 10th January, 18 Henry VI. 1442. Warrant: Henry, by the grace of God King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, to all his bailiffs and faithful people to whom these present letters shall come, greeting. Know ye, that whereas Baldewine Foleford, lately in our court before our Justices of the Bench, by our writ impleaded Henry Bray, of the parish of Altarnon, in the county of Cornwall, "yoman," and John Papham, of Treskeynek, in the county of Cornwall, " husbondman," of a certain trespass to the said Baldwine by