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 THE BOROUGH ARMS. 209 secounde, be the auncyent armes of the Borough of Dunheved alias Launceston, in the county of Cornewaill, wiche armes and creast was registred, confirmed, and allowid, in the tyme of the visytation of Cornewaill, by me Roberte Cooke als Clarencieulx, esquier, princypale herault, and kinge of armes of the east, west, and south parties of this realme of England, from the ryver of Trent, southwarde, unto Thomas Crossig, maior, Thomas Hicks, Samson Pyper, Robert Gorge, Thomas Humphrey, Stevyn Bennet, William Morten, John Fugers, and Olyver Collen, alder- men of the same borough, and they the same armes and creast to vse, beare, & shewe, by them and their successors in lyke place and offyce, for ever, at their lyberty and pleasure, without lett o r interuption of any parson or parsons : In witnes wheirof I, the above saide Clarencieulx, kinge of armes, have hervnto sub- scribed my name, and sette thervnto the seale of offyce, the xxiiijth of Jully A Dm : 1573, And in the xvth yere of the reigne of o r drede souvereigne lady Elizabethe, by the grace of God, Quene of England, Ffraunce, and Irian d, deffender of the fay the, &c. Robt. Cooke, alias Clarencieulx, "Roy D'armes." Somerset Herald (Mr. Tucker), to whom we recently submitted impressions of the old seal, and of the seal of 1573, courteously gives us the following explanation: " The device of a triple-towered castle was unquestionably the only one used on the ancient seal of the Borough, and in every such instance it was the very proper custom of the Heralds to adopt and incorporate the ancient device when designing the arms, simply treating it in heraldic fashion. The seal of which you send me a tracing, repre- sents a triplc-towercd castle, surrounded by its legend, and was the only one used by the Corporation till their arms were granted by Cooke in 1573." Extracts from the Account of Oliver Colly n, Mayor, 1574. P d for iiij yeardes of wrapper clothe to bury a prysoner, xijd. ; Gieven to one that gathered for the Que 8 Benche pryson, viijd. ; for mending the lock of the Darkhousedore, 2od.; for paper to P