Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/27

THE PRIORY. ii In 1302 (30 Ed. I.) disputes arose between the Burgesses of Dunheved and the Prior and Canons of St. Stephen, at Lanceuetona, concerning their mutual rights and liberties, and the parties brought their quarrels before the judges of assize and a jury of Est Wyveshire and certain knights chosen for the purpose, at Launceston, in Michaelmas term of that year. The pleadings in the action will be more fully set forth under our title of " Dunheved," but we here extract one interesting statement contained in them. The Prior says that " Reginald de Mortayn, Earl of Cornwall, gave to the Prior and Convent, in lieu of a certain tower belonging to them which he had caused to be destroyed, forty shillings yearly from his farm of the castle of Dunheved, without prejudice to the twenty shillings per annum pay- able to the said Prior and Convent, and their successors, for the market that had been taken from them, and which twenty shillings they have yearly of the Provost of the said Castle." Who can tell us where this tower stood, or why Reginald destroyed it ? On the 8th July, 13 12, "the morrow of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr," this same Roger de Horton, with the consent of his Convent, by writing under their common seal, promised to establish a chantry perpetually to "celebrate" by one of their canonical priests in their conventual church, for the soul of Master William Bauceyn, and the souls of his father and mother, and of their friends, and for the stability of Waiter Bishop of Exeter, and of Roger himself, with every human thing belonging to them. The celebrating priest was always to participate in the goods of the house. Roger appointed his beloved in Christ Master Bartholomew, of the Castle, clerk, to carry out his intention. On Friday, " at the Feast of St. Dunstan," in the same year, 13 12, the grant was formally made by Roger de Horton himself, under his seal as " Prior of Lanceuetone."