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144 DUNHEVED. ton ; for one " clavell " bought for " le chemeny ; " for carriage of "le grute" and "le robell" outside the house; for "le pekenyng" of "le myddel flore;" for "le heghyng" of "le jostes," and "le pekenys " for " le underflore." Necessary Expenses. For making the pugnion of the Guildhall; for six halters for binding le staffelys ; wages for covering the Chapel of the Blessed Mary ; for one quarter of lime, and two buschells, bought at Cutenbeek (in St. Germans) ; for lathe nayle, bought of Smyth of Kylkehampton ; masons' wages about the house called " le quadrangell ; " for carriage of stone to "le quad- rangell;" for timber lifted and carried to the Guildhall from a vacant place of land near the Church; for "pytchyng le flore," and for "le wallyng" of the house lately of H. Smethe ; for doors and windows for " le quadrangell " house, and for the shop of John Hobba, " bocher ; " for covering the house at " le quadrangell ; " for four tables for the stall at ditto ; for mending the ironwork and making two staples for ditto ; for two locks, bought at Brydstowe, for ditto ; for the carriage and " le wenyng " of one tree from the park of H. Basselegh to the town; for one "dreye," and two " berowes," to carry stones ; for one bushell and half-peck of oats to sow the land lately of John Lenn ; to one man, with two horses and one " harwa " for " le harwyng," of the same land ; for hire of one horse, obtained from John Peris, for the service of a man of the Prince, the son of King Henry VJ. (i2d.) ; for one dozen of "guyschenys clothes," [query cushion cloths,] bought of one tayellor, for the honor of the toun, one "guyschyn" 5d., together 5s. ; for mending one lock for " le Westyeat ; " for fallowing one piece of land at Heye, lately of Thomas Rarfy ; for saving the hay of the same, and for carriage thereof; for "le rypynge" oats in the field lately of John Lenn ; for mending two keys for " le convenience" for keeping horses ; for mending "one pykes " for the Commonalty; wages for "le ledyryng" of half a dozen "guyschenys," (2s.) ; for "rydyng" of the pole, and cleansing "le Westwyll ;" for making of "le beers" [biers] for the church. A frightful battle occurred at St. Albans on the Shrove-Tuesday of 1461 between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians. Warwick was on the losing side, and the presumption is that he visited Cornwall immediately after his defeat.