Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/220

198 DUNHEVED. and Commonalty shall, whenever the parliament is summoned, have power to elect and nominate two discreet and good men to be such burgesses, and to send them to the parliament at the costs of the borough. All burgesses and freemen of the Borough were to be exempt from assizes, juries, and inquisitions, unless they respectively had possessions without the borough. License to hold twelve counties [courts] yearly, namely, one county in every month, or oftener if expedient, before the Mayor and Recorder, or their deputies. The borough is excluded from the Hundred of Est Wevelshire. Grant that the Justices assigned to take the assizes and deliver gaols in Cornwall should for ever hold their sessions and gaol deliveries only in the borough of Dunheved, otherwise Launceston, and not elsewhere within the county. The said Justices were to hold such sessions, as theretofore, in the Castle called The Castell of Launceston, notwithstanding such sessions were formerly held at the town of Lostwithiel. [This grant has since been abrogated by Acts of Parliament.] Power is given to the Mayor, three Aldermen, and the Recorder, to assemble all the lieges of the borough, and to arm and accoutre them, for keeping watch and ward within the borough. No Royal Commissioner for taking musters in Cornwall was to intermeddle within the borough, except by special mandate of the Queen, or her successors. Grant to the Mayor and Commonalty of the custody and government of the hospital of St Leonard. (See page 49.) Confirmation of all previous gifts, liberties, franchises, and customs. And further we will and command that, henceforth forever, no Mayor, Sheriff, Under-sheriff, Escheator, Keeper of the Peace, Justice, Bailiff, or other of our ministers or Commissioners, except Justices of Oyer and Terminer, shall enter the borough to execute his office, nor intermeddle therewith, under the penalty of ^100, except on default of the Mayor and Commonalty. [But now, by Statutes of 28 Geo. III.: 1 and 2 Geo. IV.; and 5 and 6 Will. IV., county Justices have concurrent jurisdiction in this and other Boroughs.] A general pardon of offences committed by the Burgesses prior to the 30th April, 1554, closes the Charter.