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ACCOUNTS. 161 to John Carrow, the official of the Archdeacon of Cornwall at the time of his visitation, iod. Among the Necessary expenses are those of the Mayor and Com- monalty at divers times on their inspection of the lands and tenements, and the defects of the same, 3s.; for carriage of wax from Stratton to Launceston, 2d. ; dinner to the Justices at the time of the Sessions of the Peace, 2s. 5d. ; wages for making 2 gates — viz., at Wyndmyll and Dounheved — 3s. 8d. ; for "rede wax" bought for sealing the Charter of John Knewbon, id. ; ex- penses of the twelve [Jury] on examining the defects of all the messuages, &c, belonging to the Mayor and Commonalty, i4d. ; expenses incurred by the Prior and the Mayor on scrutinizing their Charters at divers times, i2^d. ; expenses of the Mayor and others for keeping the peace in the market, 2s. ; expenses of the Mayor at Holdysworthy, to deliberate with the burgesses of that town, upon showing the Charters of the Lord the King to John Culme, then steward there, i6d. ; repairing "le shamelis," i2^d.; paid Walter Bodygood, for a deed written between the Mayor and Commonalty, and Thomas Cork, 2od. The Mayor and Com- monalty forgive the rent of Elie Crokker, and Thomasine his wife, in this year, on account of their gift of lands and tenements, as well in the borough, as in Wyltys worthy, to the said Mayor and Commonalty and their successors for ever. 1485. By deed John Roche, of Landew, and Katerine his wife, release to Alice Woforde and Simon Tredidan all the right which Henry Hunns-the-elder theretofore had in a close of land near Bodmam Lane, then lately of Philip Hoig, and in a tenement lying in Bastestrete, near the tenement of Johanna Seynell, and in a toft lying in Le Castell Strete, near the tenement which Nicholas Trerys, chaplain, now holds there, together with one tenement outside the Northgate. The witnesses are, Thomas Dassell, John Mannyng, William Coulecote, John Vele, and Peter Mershe. Given at the borough of Dounheved on the day of March next before the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 3 Richard III. Attached to this deed is a grant from the same John Roche and Katerine his wife to the same Alice Woforde and Simon Tredidan of all their right in the same property. The witnesses are also the same. M