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 Apostle, 1 Henry V. (24th August, 1413.) Robert Dendyman and others are charged with daily trampling the ditch of the wall of the town with their pigs. The Provosts are again charged with not levying certain moneys. Infractions of the assize of ale are numerous. Other entries refer to similar matters with those in the preceding accounts.

Court held on Monday next before the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle 1 Henry V. (21st September, 1413.) Thomas Huwett is presented for vexing Walter Skynner, a burgess, in the Court of the Marshal of Aysshe (see November Court, p. 116). Several persons threw themselves on the Mayor's mercy, and were fined, for trampling the ditch of the town with pigs. John Worleyend is stated to be at law with the Mayor and Commonalty, for that he has not certified that one free stone has been carried away from the barbican [watch-tower] worth 12d., as the bailiff presents. Robert Robyn and John Atte-ford, the Provosts, were amerced because they had not levied certain sums. John Hoghe of Holdesworthy, tanner, was fined 20d. because he, on a certain day, entered the market and forestalled all the hides of animals and took the first [illegible] before the burgesses of this town, contrary to the custom, &c. John Colman was fined 12d. for that he used violence against Walter Skynner, the late Mayor, while in his office, and called him a false traitor and a lazar, vilely disparaging him, to the great scandal of the office of Mayor aforesaid.

These fortunately-preserved Rolls of Tharapp's mayoralty show that six at least of the eight yearly Courts authorized by the Charter of Richard, King of the Romans, (page 73) were then held, and that the powers of such Courts were jealously exercised.

An Indenture dated 1413 witnessed that William Tharap, Mayor of the free borough of Dounheved, and the eight Aldermen, with the unanimous assent of the Commonalty, had let to farm to John Cory one garden and one parcel of land belonging to the Lessors, lying between the land called Cargyntellond in the borough aforesaid, between the garden of the Prior and Convent of Launceston on the west part, and the land of John Hoigge on the east part, and the Royal highway which leads from the borough towards Bodmam on the south part, and a certain croft