Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/246

 224 DUNHEVED. 1 504 paupers were prohibited from begging, except in the Hundred where they last dwelt. Our pages have disclosed some results of these restrictions. Testimonials, certificates, briefs, or other warrant for collecting the alms required even to prevent starvation, had been indispensable ; but now (1601) a plan was happily devised by which the helpless have absolute rights to care and support from the State. We here pause in our chronological career, and glance at the Castle and the Church. If the reader has followed us thus far, he will have noticed the remarkable continuity of the leading usages in this borough during the five or six hundred years over which we have led him. He will remember that we profess to give only the best account we can of the hitherto- neglected history of the place, not biographies of the persons connected with it. Perhaps some able pen will hereafter base upon the facts which we, with much labour, have collected, many interesting episodes relating to individuals whose names are here revived.