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 THE POLHOLME GARDEN. 309 The west end of this remarkably beautiful building was never completed. Before the edifice was formally dedicated, the Mayor and Commonalty bought from the Prior and Convent of St. Stephen, who were the rectors of the new chapel, another piece of land, chiefly for purposes of sepulture. The price reserved was a perpetual annuity of 6s. 8d. to be paid to the Prior and his successors in the church of St. Stephen. This land was a garden known as Le Polholme Garden, or Le Polme Garden, presumably the pomme [fruit] garden. It forms the portion of the present churchyard, east of the THE POLHOLME GARDEN. chapel, and includes the vicarage-house and grounds as far as the old town wall there. The facts connected with this purchase are established by the following documents. 1522. [Trans.] To all faithful Christians to whom this present writing, indented, shall come, John Baker, Prior of the house and Church of S fc Stephen, the protho-martyr, at Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, and the convent of the same place, greeting in the Lord Everlasting : Know ye that we, the aforesaid Prior and Convent, with our unanimous assent and consent, have delivered, demised, and by this our present charter have confirmed, to Richard Mylle, now Mayor of the Borough of Downevedd otherwise Launceston, in the county aforesaid, to John Chamond, Henry Trecarell, Esq re, W m Lenne, John Pyers, Rich d Gadys-