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ITS CHANCEL. 301 The aforesaid Prior and Convent, and their successors, shall repair, amend, and sustain for ever the Chancel of the aforesaid Chapel, as well in walls and timber, as in glass and covering : And if it happen that any damage, prejudice, or substantial cause of complaint arise or be caused by any man, of whatever station or age, or by the Mayor of the aforesaid borough for the time being, in the glass of the aforesaid chancel, in the walls, the timber, or the covering thereof, the trespass, prejudice, and damage, or cause of complaint, shall be inquired into at the suit of the aforesaid Prior and Convent, and their successors ; and he or they, by whom such damage shall have been done, shall repair and amend the same. And John Cokeworthy has, out of his own liberality, spon- taneously given and freely promised, in honour of the blessed Mary Magdalene aforesaid, to give for the use of the aforesaid Chapel one, and the principal, Antiphonary, with an Invitatory within the same Antiphonary, and to supply such Antiphonary to the aforesaid Chapel, or to the wardens of the same, at the feast of S* John the Baptist next ensuing. [The Antiphonary was a service book which contained all the invitatories, responses, and collects, and whatever was said or sung in the choir, except the lessons.] And on the covenant or agreement, donation and promise, aforesaid being observed, the said Mayor and Burgesses will at their cost for ever make, repair, amend, and sustain all and singular other burdens to the aforesaid Chapel pertaining, as well in books as in other ornaments whatsoever, except the aforesaid support of the aforesaid chancel. The witnesses are the discreet men, John Cokeworthi, Thomas Paderda, Benedict of Dounheved, and others of the diocese of Exeter specially called and asked to be present. The reader may feel interested in the fact, mentioned at page in, that, in this year 1395, Mr. Cokeworthy had received from Mr. Craneford, the mayor who had im- mediately preceded Mr. Fox, and from the then com- monalty, a lease for fifty years of the valuable piece of land called Penhol, with a croft adjoining thereto, at an inconsiderable rent. Will it be calumnious to say that