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1 64 DUNHEVED. joining between le Casteldeche on the west, the Royal highway on the east, and the land of the heirs of Cars on the north, and the lands of the heirs of Clynek on the south, which we have lately of the gift and feoffment of the said John Cowlyng, within the borough of Dounehevett. To hold, &c., to the said John Cowlyng, and Isabell, his wife, for the term of their lives, and the term of the longest liver of them, under the yearly rent of i grain of at Michaelmas, if demanded. The witnesses named are John Cork, Mayor, William Uppeton, and Thomas Skelton. Given at the borough on Monday next before the feast of Dominica in the branch of Palms [Palm Sunday] 12 Henry VII. Seal attached with the impression of a pair of scissors. 1498. Part of the account of Robert Howke and Richard Mylle, stewards of Dounheved Burgh, of all receipts and expenses from the day next before the feast of St. Andrew, 13 Henry VII. , John Corke being Mayor. "Keeper of the Church. For 1 potell of oyle, 6d., I boght at Tawstocke; also for a baryll of oyle y boght at Tawstocke, 19s. ; also for carage of the same, wyt mete and drynge, 9d." The remainder of this roll has been cut off and is lost. During the mayoralty of the same John Corke, in the 14th Henry VII. (1499), a jury of 24 burgesses revived and recorded certain ancient customs and ordinances of the Borough. These ordinances were, substantially, as follow: 1. That no inhabitant of the burgh should permit any hog, goose, duck, or sheep, to go at large within the borough, on pain, after warning, of paying 3d. for each hog, 2d. for every goose and sheep, and id. for every duck. 2. That the common-grounds of the borough should be occu- pied in the void season as follows : Each alderman with ten beasts, each common steward with eight beasts, each portreeve with six beasts, and every commoner with two beasts, and no more respec- tively : And, as to Scardon, each alderman, burgess, and com- moner might occupy with two kinds of beasts, so that sheep were none of them. The penalty for infringing these rules is 4d. for each beast. 3. That the clerks [chaplains] who were waged for the year by the mayor and his brethren to serve God in the church should,