Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/230

208 DUNHEVED. Crassen's account were made to some of these fugitives. Elizabeth became alarmed at the insidious conduct of the Papists, and directed her militia throughout the kingdom to be exercised, Portsmouth and other places to be fortified, and general cautionary measures to be used for the safety of her people. Several entries in the preceding Mayor's account show that this jealous care was manifesting itself in Dunheved. We have given, at page 90, an engraving of the common Seal hitherto used in the Borough. At the Heralds' Visita- tion of Cornwall, in 1573, the Corporation waited upon the principal king of afms, who, from the old design, elaborated the following and granted the certificate of which this is a copy : SIGILLUM DUNHEVIDI BOWROGH ALYAS LAUNCESTON. " These Armes above depicted, that is to saye, gules, a keepe or castell, golde, on Abordure azur, semey Tourett of the