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ITS LEADS, CISTERNS, ETC. 313 as to its windows, or that the original designs were less elegant than those which to-day appear in the openings. It will be noticed that the mayor, an official person, simply acknowledges the delivery of material. We suggest that this material consisted of the mullions and tracery of fifteen of the present seventeen windows. There is no record of a payment either for the carriage of or for fixing the work. The probability is that Mr. Trecarell bore these costs as he had borne the others. On the roll for the year 1543-4 {infra.) there is credited a donation from John Arundell, Knt., of £$ for glazing the altar window. There may have been other contributors to special objects. In 1467 several guilds contributed to the cost of providing an altar table. On the 30th September, 27 Hen. VIII. (1536), the king demised to Thomas Hicks (then mayor of Dunheved) for seventy years, at a yearly rent of 53s. 4d., the tithes of corn, wool, and hay belonging to the rectory of the Blessed Mary Magdalene near Launceston, and formerly part of the possessions of the priory of Launceston. We shall hereafter again mention this subject. An English indenture (on paper). — Made att Launceston 25th June 29th Hen. VIII. (1538), bitwene John Oke, mayre there, in the name and behalf of the hoole tovvne, of th'one partie, and W m Morys, of Modbury, Devon, plumber, of th'oder partie, Witnessith that the saide Will™ his executors and assigns, shall, bi Godd's grace, new caste, or cause to be new casted, all suche leddes, cisternes, pipes, and gutters as shall belonge unto the hoole churche of Mary Magdalene, w th in the Burgh of Downe- heved, according to the patente and facion of the leddes of the churche of Buckland, w*in the countie of Devon, and to fynde al man r of saudrye and woode apperteynyng, in and for the fur- nysshyng of the same : And, for the performaunce, doyeing, casting, and furnysshyng of the seide ledes, in man r & forme aforeseid. The seide maire couenitith to and with the seide Will m , for hym and his successours, to contente and paye, for evy hundredis casting x d , to the seide W m & his assigns, to be payed in man r &