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300 CHAPEL OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE. parishioners in 1334, (page 94), "for a window of the Chapel of the Blessed Mary," applied to a building then either in contemplation or in actual progress ? At all events, the new edifice was completed by the year 1380; for, on the 12th June, in that year, the Bishop of Exeter granted a license to the mayor and burgesses for the performance of divine service in " the chapel of the blessed Mary Magdalene, in the borough of the town of Laneston." We regret that we have found no evidence of a license in respect of the former building. Our extracts from the Dunheved borough accounts show, however, that collections for candles and other church alms had been regularly made within the building, and that the corporation had occasionally contributed money for its chaplain. The religious ministrations of the Chapel were evidently supplied from the adjacent priory. In the Lambeth library (No. 619) is the copy of an agreement made, on the 14th May, 1395, in the "church of the Priory or Monastery of Launceston," and attested by William Hamound, clerk, a notary public, specially appointed for the purpose by Pope Boniface, between Stephen, the lord prior of the said priory, David Treludek, canon- superior of the same priory, and Roger Combrygge, canon and co-brother of such priory, with the consent and assent of the whole chapter and brethren of the same priory, on the one part ; and Henry Fox, then mayor of the borough of Dounheved, John Page, John Colyn, William Twyneow, and John Cary, burgesses of the same borough, with the consent and assent of the whole commonalty of such borough, on the other part, for terminating controversies which had long existed between the parties, concerning the reparation, amending, and sustaining of the chancel of the Chapel of the blessed Mary Magdalene, situate in the High Street of the aforesaid borough. The terminating part of the agreement is as follows [trans.] :