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212 DUNHEVED. Commissioners that sate here vppon the croppes, by the command- ment of the magistrates, 5s. ; to W m Seymo r for cordes to bend theym that were whipped w th all, id.; to Layne's wief to buy a schrowed for her husband, i2d.; p d against a lawedaie for rushes for the hall and speache house, 2d.; for making the gebet, gd.; for the Quene's Armes paynted in clothe, 2s. 6d. ; to Hugh Tompsyn for three swordes and three daggers, 26s. 8d. ; to two Irishe marchants that lost their shippe, i2d. ; to Dr. Narcisius, in Mr. Hickes his sickness, a potell of seek, i2d. ; to Mr. Sherif when he searched St. Katherens for papist bookes, a potell of seek, and a potell of claret wyne, 2 2d. ; to the Judges of the Circuit at Lent Assizes a potell of seek, &c; a dynner made unto the masters and 24, and diverse other gentlemen, at the Coronation daie, 20s.; geiven to a poore woman that begged onlie w* my L. of Bedforde's auethorytie, i2d. When the Church of Rome had excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, and was rattling its ecclesiastical thunder against her sovereignty and her subjects, — when secret plots were constantly disturbing the peace of this kingdom, — the Parliament of England passed a statute (19 Eliz., 1577) for the punishment of persons who should thenceforth publish any bull of the Pope, or exercise any popish practice in England. It is said that Cuthbert Mayne, a Roman Catholic clergyman, was the first person who suffered under this statute. He was suspected of being concealed in the house of Mr. Tregion, a gentleman possessed of large estates in Cornwall, and, among these, of the manor of Tremolla, or Tremolleth, in the parish of Northhill, near Launceston. Whether the Sheriff of Cornwall found Mr. Mayne at Tremolla, or, as is supposed, at Probus, may be doubtful, but the suspect was captured, and was afterwards tried and condemned at Launceston. On the 29th November, 1577, Mayne died for upholding a religion which, fifty years before, had been the national religion. The tradition is, that he was hung, drawn, and quartered, in the market- place of Dunheved.