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THE PRIORY. 19 Under " Neuport and St. Stephen " appear entries of seventy-one rents paid by thirty-five persons. The next section of the Rental is intituled, " Borough of Neuweport." It gives the names of seventy-six burgesses there in the year 1474. Some heirs of deceased persons, and two or three non-residents, are mentioned as burgesses. The "Keeper of the Store of the Blessed Mary" is indi- cated only by his office. William Berball, chaplain, and John Torner, chaplain, are burgesses ; and Thomas Garrya is burgess in right of his wife. The third section is again under the heading " Launces- tonlonde," and specifies the conventionary tenants of the manor, and their several holdings. The tenements are one hundred and fifteen in number. In some cases the names of tenements and of tenants are identical with those in the quit-rental. We observe among these tenements a note that payment of rents of 7s. iod. for Attel Downe, 3s. for Arteris Downe, 8s. for Launceston Downe, and 2s. 6d. for Barn Downe, had been obtained by distress. At the end of this section are some payments which the accountant had made, among them being the following : Paid the Sacristan for John Uppeton for a certain Mount called Whyteburgh [in Trewhante], 6d. Paid the Sacristan of Cloms the land of Richard Vage, 3d. Paid the Sacristan of the tenement of John Hore, 3s. Paid the Keeper of the Blessed Mary of the Parish of St. Stephen, is. 4d. Paid the Lord Prior for the tithes of Whytemede, 3s. Paid the Priest of Egloskery at Penhelemyll and Kestelmylford in this year, 3s. 8d. Paid for the Vault [or arched chamber] of Launceston, rented of the heirs of John Body, 14s. 2jd. Paid rent of Launcestonlond for the Vault [chamber] there, of the gift of the Lord Prior yearly, 40s. Paid the Storekeeper of Mary Magdalen for rent of one tenement in the town of the Castle per annum, 3d. Next follows a list of twenty-one defaulters, and then a memorandum that " Robert Cork of Launceston " [the accountant] had, in that year, paid for Sir John Denbaude, C 2