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 ACCOUNTS. 115 1 2d. ; for wine, 6s. 2d.; for bread for the peahens, i2d. ; for hay, 2s. ; for oats, 2s. 3^d. Donations to the suite of the Justices: To the esquire Brenthesle, 2od.; to the esquire Colpeper, i2d. ; to the crier, i2d. ; for food given to several servants who carried the exemptions to the Justices, 2d.; for valets of the chamber, 1 2d. " Expenses i?icurred at the coming of the Council of the Lord the Prince :" For wine presented to them at Clymeslond, 2s. 3d.; for wine given to the Deputy (?) and the burgesses of the vill when they came home, 8d. ; for bread, 2s. 5^d.; for ale, fourteen bottles, 2 id.; for seven bottles and three quarts of Rochelle wine, 5s. 2d.; for one potell of red wine, 5d. ; for sweet wine at the table of R. Wotton, 6d.; for fruits, 3s. 8£d.; for one strayner, 2d.; for flour, 6d. ; for candles and oil/; for fish bought ; for wages of the cooks ; for fuel, 4d. ; for rewards given to four men fishing in the water of Kensey, 4d.; for wine given to them on their return, iod., &c. Total, 31s. 3^d. On another slip are entries for repairing the stairs, windows, and other parts of the church; and on another are particulars of the refreshment to Walter Talbot, viz., bread, ale, salt, white wine, red wine, meat, &c. 1409. It will hereafter appear probable that in or about this year John Colyn and others purchased land called Bodmam, and gave it to the Mayor for charitable uses. In 141 1 Walter Skynner, Mayor of the free borough of Doun- heved, and the eight Aldermen, with the unanimous assent of all the Commonalty, leased for ten years to Stephen Vyncent " all that our tenement, except a certain shop (shopa) under a chamber of the same tenement, which Richard Palmer" held of the lessors in the borough aforesaid, situate opposite the fish-stall, between the tenement of Robert Cory on the one part, and the tenement lately of Peter Quiter on the other part. Yearly rent of 10s. sterling reserved. The witnesses are William Tharap, Henry Fox, Richard Cobethom, John Cork, and William Body. Given at the borough aforesaid on Friday next after the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr 12 Henry IV. [Seal of lessee appended.]