WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 213 Mr. Sheriff's search at St. Katherens for papist bookes in the same year, 1577, is in remarkable unison with the probable facts. We think that the name St. Katherines may still have clung to the partially demolished Priory buildings (page 34) at St. Thomas. A fortnight after the hanging of Cuthbert Mayne, viz., on the 13th December, 1577, Francis Drake sailed from the port of Plymouth, and, before he returned, accom- plished what no Englishman had previously accomplished, a voyage round the world. By an indenture dated 20th April 20th Elizabeth, (1578), made between Thomas Humfrye, Mayor of Dunhevid otherwise Launceston, and the Commonalty of the same Borough, of the one part, and Alice Seymour, widow, of the other part, in con- sideration of ^20 which had been paid to the said Mayor and Commonalty by Richard Seymour, the deceased husband of Alice, the said Mayor and Commonalty demised to the said Alice, " all theire commen Beymes, Skales, brasen weights, and ledden weights, as also the weightinge and paysinge of wooll, yarne, and all other things whatsoev 1 " accustomed to be waied and paised within the borough at the same commen Beyme, w th all the pfitts and revenues risinge, growinge, and cominge by the same comen Beyme ;" To hold from the feaste of Philip and James then next (1st May) for the terme of nyne yeres, Paying therefor yerely
- £i2 in 4 equal quarterly portions. In this Lease is a Covenant
by the said Alice, that she would " waighe and payse all suche wooll and yame as any of the Inhabitants of the said Boroughe shall sell w th in the said Boroughe, and bringe to the said common Beyme to be weighed or peysed, without takinge anyihinge for the waighinge or paysinge of the same; and also shall waie and paise all wooll and yarne, and all other thinge and thinges, whatsoever is to be weighed or peised by the comon Beyme abovesaid, beinge the goods or chattels of any person dwellinge oute of the said Boroughe, taking for the same waieage and paysinge resonablie, wthout taken any excesse for the waightinge or paysinge of the same." In after years the revenue specifically arising from this
