Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/90

72 DUNHEVED. dom by John, the sixth son of Henry II., afterwards King of England. John continued Earl until the seventeenth and last year of his reign (1216). In that year he granted the County of Cornwall to Henry Fitz Count, a natural son of Earl Reginald. We find no Charter of John to Dunheved ; but in the great Roll of the seventh year of his reign (1206) is an entry of the receipt from the men of Lancaueton of five marks for a change of their market from Sunday to Thursday; and the following sentence occurs in John's Charter to the Borough of Helleston : " We will also that they shall have all the liberties and free customs which the Burgesses of our Castle at Lances- ton had in the time of our grandfather King Henry." [1 1 54 to 1 1 89.] John's Charter to the Priory of Launceston appears ante, page 6. In 1220 Henry Fitz CountofTended the King (Henry III.), but afterwards made peace with that monarch by sur- rendering to him the Castle of Dunheved and the County of Cornwall, with all homage and services thereto belonging. Henry III. held the earldom from 1220 until 1227, when he granted it and the earldom of Poictou to his brother Richard (Plantagenet), the titular King of the Romans and Almaigne. Richard issued the following Charter to Dunheved [translation] : Richard, Earl of Poictou and Cornwall, To all his Bailiffs, and faithful men greeting. Know ye that we have granted, given, and by this our present Charter do confirm that our Borough of Dunhevet and our Burgesses of the same Borough, and all men to the Liberties of the said Borough belonging, be free wheresoever they shall be, and that they be quit throughout all our Land of Pontage, of Stallage, and of Suillage, and all other customs. We have granted also to them, and their heirs, for us and our heirs, to