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ITS DEDICATION. 311 Church, to the Prior, and his successors, another 6s. 8d. in the name of a penalty. Seal of the Commonalty of the borough attached. The witnesses are Sir Robert Wylloughby, Knight, lord of Broke, Peter Aggecombe, Knight, John Rowe, Sergeant- at-Law, John Chamond, Henry Trecarell, Esq re , and William Hokemore of Tottenes. Given in the Guildhall of the borough on the 2nd of August, 13 Henry VIII. 1522-3. An Indenture, dated at Launceston 26th March, 13 Henry VIII., under the common seal of the Mayor, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the town or borough of Downeheved near Launceston, and of the Prior and Convent of the house or priory of Launceston, of the order of S* Augustine, in the diocese of Exeter, being rectors and proprietors of the parish church of S* Stephen at Launceston, and of the chapel of the blessed Mary Magdalene within the borough of Downeheved aforesaid, near the Castle of Launceston ; and which chapel is lawfully dependent upon its mother church S fc Stephen for its sacred office, as well as for the burial of the dead. By this Deed the Prior and Convent granted a right of sepulture to the Mayor, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of Douneheved, in the cemetery adjoining the said chapel of Mary Magdalene, in exchange for a covenant on the part of the Mayor, Burgesses, and Commonalty, that they would thenceforth repair and maintain the chancel of the said chapel, and the glass, windows, books, and ornaments theretofore maintained by the Prior and Convent. It was thereby, moreover, agreed that if a chamber or dwelling-house, for performing the duties of sepulture, were required to be erected upon the Polholme garden, which, on the i 8t August then last, the Prior and Convent had granted to the Mayor and Burgesses, then the Mayor and Burgesses would build such chamber or dwelling- house on payment by the Prior of £4 sterling. On the 1 8th June, 1524, the chapel (we shall henceforth call it church) was consecrated and formally dedicated to Mary Magdalene. The result of our researches negatively strengthens the tradition that the building was the sole gift of Henry Trecarell. On the one hand, there is no entry in the existing borough accounts of a payment towards the cost