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214 DUNHEVED. Common Beam was charged with an annuity of £25 to the clergyman of St. Mary Magdalene, which annuity is still paid. 1 578-1 58 1. A folio volume of the Corporation of Dun- heved, containing 643 pages, written on paper, commences thus : " Borough of Dunhevyd otherwise Launceston. The Rentroll of the Burghe aforesaid, collected and gathered before Thomas Humfry, Maior of the same Burgh, and the aldermen there, and very many more of the Burgh aforesaid, as well by viewe of all lands, tene- mentes, and heriditamentes holden of the same Burghe, frely, by custome, life, yeres, & otherwise, and also by divse olde and auncient Rentalles, there shewed in the moneth of Aprill in the twenteth yere of the raigne of o r Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God Quene of Englond, Fraunce, and Irelond, Defender of the Fayth, &c. ; And the same newlye examyned, corrected, and amended by Oliver Colleng, Gent, Maior of the Burgh aforesaid, in the xxiij th yere of the reigne of the Qu es Ma tie above said, and divse others of the same Burghe, then and there present and assistant, as foloweth." Then are entered, in alphabetical order, arranged by sur- names, the tenants, with the tenements held by each person, and the rent payable for each tenement. Altogether there are 83 tenants, and the total rental is £74 8s. 4^d., with lib. of pepper, the pepper being charged to John Wyse for the high rent of Sturscome. [In the steward's account audited 1572 is this entry: "Paid for an ounce of peper that lacked of John Wise's rent, iijd."] The holders of the most numerous tenements were Thomas Hickes (35), Thomas Morton (17), Sampson Pyper (15), Sampson Grilles (10), Richard Seymour (10). The Rentroll occupies the first 17 pages of the volume : The residue of it is a record (chiefly in Latin) of surrenders and admissions of tenements within