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156 DUNHEVED. for silver paid to the clerk of Mr. Tyneowe for writing the acquittance of the payment, under the seal of the said Mr. Tyneowe, receiver-general of the said Lord the Prince, 4d. ; also for expenses incurred at Tavystok, 4£d. Total, ^3 16s. n£d. The following is a copy of the release [translation] : Know all men that I John Twynyho, attorney-general of the Lord Edward, the first son of Edward IV., illustrious King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester, have received and had, on the day of the granting of these presents, of Henry Bassele, Mayor of the borough of Dunheved in the county of Cornwall, and of the Burgesses of the same borough, for their recognition of the said Lord the Prince, a debt of five marks, which five marks I confess myself to have received for the use of the said Lord the Prince, of which debt the Mayor and Burgesses are acquitted by these presents. In witness whereof I have to these presents set my seal. Given on the 15th October, 17 Edward IV. King Edward IV. was heir of the Black Prince, but was not the heir of the last created Duke of Cornwall. Edward of Lancaster, descended from King Henry IV., was born in 1453, and was invested with the Duchy when two years old. He was slain at Tewkesbury on the 4th May, 147 1. Edward IV. was of the line of York, and thought it safer to grant the duchy to his own son Edward, by a new creation. He did so, reciting in his grant that Henry IV. was " indede, and not in ryght, Kyng of Englond." " The Lord Edward the Prince," mentioned in the above-cited Roll and Release, was born on the 4th November, 1470, and was the poor boy-king, afterwards (1483) murdered in the Tower by Richard III. The reader will have observed how marvellously our manuscripts correspond with, and confirm, general history. The Receipts, during the same mayoralty of Henry Basely, are entered on a separate roll " began on Monday next after the feast of St. Catherine the Virgin, 17 Edward IV." These receipts include the Arrears, and usual sources of income, adding to the