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288 ASSIZE HALL, AND GUILDHALL. necessaryes & attendants thereunto belongeinge, and heretofore usually provided by the maior & communalty of the said burrough, (the judge's lodgeing & the necessaryes thereunto incident onely excepted), the said William Stokes his executors, &c, takeing annually for doeing thereof the sum of £ of the Sherriffe of Cornewall for the time being, and noe more; And that he the said William Stokes his executors, &c, shall and will, at his and their proper costs & charges, dureing the said terme, keep the said newe erected house in good repair, as now it is, in all things (the covering of the roof thereof onely excepted, wch is to be done att the cost & charges of the maior & communalty of the said burrough), and at the end of the said term well repaired shall leave and yield up the same. And if it shall happen that the said seats & places for the said justices of Assizes to sitt in be not fitted and provided as aforesaid against every Assizes, or wast done upon the premises to the value of tenn shillings, then the mayor & communalty might re-enter. And the said mayor & communalty covenanted for quiet possession by Stokes, and also that " in case the Assizes for the County of Cornewall shall att any time dureinge the terme hereby granted happen to be removed and held att any other place in the said county, out of the said burrough, or the said William Stokes his executors &c. or either of them be hindered from recovering the said ;£i2 annually by any legall authority, then the mayor of the said burrough for the tyme being shall, dureing such removall or hinderance, pay unto the said William Stokes the sum of Tenn pounds annually out of the revennue of the said burrough. The buildings thus leased to Mr. Stokes were for two hundred years used as the Guildhall, and the Shirehall, and for the purposes of a market. Under the statute 3 Vict., cap. lxxv., passed 19th June, 1840, these buildings were destroyed to make way for the present corn, butter, and poultry market house in Broad Street. The old block occupied more ground than is occupied by the present house, the residue of the site being now part of the adjacent streets. We incline to think that the Guildhall mentioned in the lease had for some years prior to 1647 been the substitute