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 96 DUNHEVED. for the year, £20 13s. ijd. Total payments for the year, £19 5s. 6d. The next account was rendered at the feast of St. Edmund the King and Martyr, 10 Edward III., (1337) by William Bolepit and William of the Gate, stewards, before David Cresa, Mayor, Reginald of Tavistok, Luke the Fayre, Richard Port, John Page, Henry Trist, Robert Ponton, and others of the Commonalty. The first receipt credited is 2s. lid. for rent of the cobbler's wall. The other details are like those of the preceding years. The Taxation is, however, now called " The taxation of the King." Total receipts for the year, John (of Eltham) died Earl of Cornwall in 1336, and on the ijth March, 1337, the King, Edward III., made Cornwall a Duchy, and bestowed its various lordships, castles, and lands upon his eldest son, Edward, then only seven years old, afterwards known as the Black Prince. Of this celebrated Prince Mr. Tucker, the present Somerset Herald, says, " Cornwall may well be proud to number amongst her lords one whose gallantry and prowess must have obtained for him a front rank in fame, even had not the accident of princely birth made them the more conspicuous. In 1337 he became the first Duke created in England, and, on no one throughout the whole roll of British worthies, could the highest degree of nobility have been more appropriately conferred than on this dis- tinguished man." On the 5th May, 11 Edward III. [1338], an Inquisition was made into the possessions of this celebrated Duke at Dunheved, and the following is a copy [translation] of the report made thereon by James of Wodestok, and William of Monden, so far as the same specially affects the Borough. The residue will appear under our division "The Castle."
 * £*20 13s. od. Total payments for the year, ,£19 5s. 6d.