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THE PRIORY. 33 £ s. d. £ s. d. To the Poor on the Obit day of the aforesaid founder . . .100 And to the Poor for Alms yearly given for the soul of the same founder . .100 7 8 10 Synodals and procurations yearly to the Archdeacon . . . . 15 9 Clear yearly value . . . £$54 o Note. — We have used Dr. Oliver's copy of the Valor Ecclesiasticus. There are slight errors in the figures. £$9* 11 2* Altogether Henry VIII. dissolved six hundred and forty- five conventual establishments. By the destruction of our Priory, alone, he became possessed in fee of several impor- tant manors, and of large ecclesiastical revenues. For these he 'gave half a dozen paltry life pensions to Sheyr and his brethren. Clymesland Prior, Carnedon Prior, Bradridge, and other of the valuable lands mentioned in the Commissioners' report, are royal possessions to this day. They form part of the Duchy of Cornwall. On the 9th July, 1575, Henry's daughter, Queen Eliza- beth, granted for sixty years to Sir Gawen Carew, knight, and his wife, " The Rectory of St. Stephen at Launceston, the Chapel of St. Nicholas at Tresmere, and all the tithes " thereof respectively; and on the 16th May, 1600, she, before the lease expired, sold for ^"1738 14s. iod. the reversion in fee of the same rectory, chapel, and tithes, to Robert Best and Henry Hollande. On the 2 1st December, 1614, King James I. granted to Richard Connocke in fee "the house and site of the late dissolved Priory of Launceston, with the rights, members, and appurtenances thereof, the Barton and Grange of Newhouse, and the two Watermills ;" and on the 2nd D