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THE PRIORY. 5 will and grant, and by this my charter confirm, that the aforesaid Canons may have and hold the aforesaid Church of Lanstone and all their lands and tenures in Cornwall which they reasonably have, or can hereafter acquire, as freely and quietly, peaceably and honorably, as they or any of their ancestors more freely and better held the same, that is to say, with " soch " and " sach," " tol " and " theam " and " infangenthef," and with all other liberties to them and their men, — of suit of shires, and of hundreds, with pleas and actions, of castle-guard, and all other aids, and all secular service and exaction, and all other happenings and secular customs, as of pure and perpetual alms. Moreover I wish to bring to the notice of all men that R the Prior of Lanstone, in full Court before me at the Castle of Dunehevede, the Provost and Burgesses of that same town being present, sufficiently and lawfully explained that at the time when Earl Moreton transferred the Sunday market from the town of St. Stephen at Lanstone, to the new town of the Castle of Dunhevet, the Canons of Lanstone, with the assent and will of the aforesaid Earl of Moreton, retained for themselves and their borough of Lanstone and the Burgesses remaining in it, all liberties pertaining to a free borough, with the same integrity which they had of old, except only the Sunday market. And the same Canons have of the Provost of the castle 20 shillings an- ually at the Feast of St. Martin. And that they had and held the same liberties fully and quietly and without contradiction during the whole time of Henry the King of England my father. Wherefore I have granted, and by this my charter confirmed, to the aforesaid Canons and their town of Lanstone, and to the men having hearth and habitation therein, all the liberties pertaining to a free borough, with the aforesaid 20 shillings annually. These being the witnesses : Robert de Dunstanville, Richard de Raddun, Bernard, sheriff of Cornwall, Robert the son of Anketil, Hugh de Dunstanville, Jordan de Trekarl, the Provost, and Mordont Sprakelyn. Robert and Hugh de Dunstanville were probably half brothers of the Earl. This Earl was one of the great men who entreated Thomas a Becket to submit to the King and the laws. He afterwards accompanied the Earl of Leicester to declare to the obdurate primate the judgment that had been passed upon him. Becket died 1 170.