Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/94

76 DUNHEVED. are several without date, but containing intrinsic evidence of their approximate age. Sir Edward Coke thus explains the cause for omitting dates in documents written shortly after the year 1 199 : — The date of the deed many times antiquitie omitted ; and the reason thereof was, for that the limitation of prescription, or time of memory, did often in processe of time change, and the Law was then holden that a deed bearing date before the limited time of prescription was not pleadable, and therefore they made their deedes without date, to the end they might allege them within the time of prescription : And the date of the deedes was commonly added in the raigne of Ed. 2 and Ed. 3, and soe ever since. The following deed was made in the mayoralty of the above-mentioned Hameline Miles, and is witnessed by the Oliver Core who attested the Gillemartin Charter. We therefore assume that it was executed about the year 12 50: Let the present and future know that I, Walter Grym, have given and granted, and by this my present writing have confirmed, to Galfrid the son of William of Middelwode, on his homage and service, one garden which lies between the garden which was of Ralph Harding, and the garden of Martin the Fuller, and the road which leads towards the Well which is called Sibardisvvyll [Shepherd's Well or Cypress Well near the existing Old Work- house, Mr. Powell's Kensey Cottages], and the Croft of Ralph Sueteman : To be had and held by the said Galfrid and his heirs or assigns, of me and my heirs or assigns, freely, &c, for ever. Rendering therefor yearly three halfpence at the Feast of the Blessed Michael — And the said Galfrid gives to me by his hands half a silver mark. The witnesses named are Hameline Miles, then Mayor, Robert Soby and David Huberd, then Provosts, Oliver Core, Peter of the Gate, Bartholomew of Bodmam [Bamham], and William de Hamet. We next notice a grant evidently made in the lifetime of Richard Plantagenet, and after the issuing of his Charter. It is from William, the son of Randulph Hera, to Richard le Marchant, and thus describes the land comprised in it.