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ST. THOMAS STREETS. 381 for 2 closes & a meadow att S l John Chapel, 76!.; the same for a close by Landerend, 2d. Hugh Vigures for the crosse-parke, 2d. Nic: Hockin, gen., for three closes, beinge ye Kings land, 4d.; the same for Birddowne, 2d. Rich : Grylls, for 2 closes of the King's land, 4d. John Seymer for his justment of Tresmarrow, 1 2d. Robert Couch for a close at Landrend, id. Rich Veale for 2 closes by Musterd Lane, 2d. John Braye for Palsgrove, 2d.; the same for parts of the Deere parke, 2d. Henceforth, for nearly 170 years, we have been unable to find a single rate or account relating to the parish of St. Thomas. Our former pages have shown that it was the duty of the Mayor and Commonalty of Dunheved to repair and main- tain the highways within the limits of their borough. This was one of the admitted trusts on which they took the revenues of their lands. In the year 1652 " S 1 Thomas Streete " was seriously out of repair. This old " Bas " Strete " is on the slope of a steep hill, at the top of which, by the North Gate, there was a public conduit, sup- plied with water from Carnford, near St. John's Chapel. The Corporation determined to pave the street, and they set the work, by competition, to a Nicholas Pethebridge, spending 3s. " for beere " at the time of such setting. On the 3rd February, 1653-4, the mayor paid Pethebridge "for pavinge of S* Thomas Streete, as by his receipt, £15; and, For carriage of stones which paved the same streete, £l 3s. 6d." On the 18th October, 1655, the Dunheved jury presented Henry Hawke " for turning the water over the pavement in S* Thomas Streete, to the prejudice of the pavement." Hawke was fined 3s. iod. On the 29th April, 1656, Pethebridge was presented "for not repayring of ye streete in S fc Thomas within this burrough, as hee ought to doe; " and " George Walkey, supervisor of the highway this yeare," was, on the 3rd November, 1659, presented for " neglecting his duty in not giving order for repayring the