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 322 CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE. ringers 6d." The same mayor provided 30 bushels of lime in 1684-5 f° r the church. May we assume that we owe to this gentleman the first white coat bestowed upon its grace- ful pillars ? Mr. Ruddle's curacy terminated with his death in 1698. His stipend had throughout been ^58 per annum. In 1699 Anna Chevers was, at the borough court, found guilty of stealing a " Bible," value tenpence, and sentenced to be whipped. We would not omit to mention that, immediately after the King's restoration, the Mayor caused the cushions of the church to be repaired, the king's arms to be set up at a cost of £5, and a new hour-glass to be provided. Grant of a pew in the Church : Know all men by these p r sents that wee, the Mayor and Comonalty of the Burrough of Uunheved als Launceston in the County of Cornwall, for diverse good Causes and Considerations us hereunto especially moveing, Have given, granted, assigned, and confirmed, and in & by these p r sents doe, as far as in us lyes, give, grant, assigne, and confirm unto Christo- pher Kingdon of the said Burrough, gent, the seate or pew in the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, between the seate or pew wherein Mrs. Johan Whiteford now sitts, and the Aldermen's seates, it being the seate or pew wherein Mr. Degory Pearse for- merly sate, and adjoying to the seate or pew wherein the Sarjeants- att-Mace now sitt, Together with liberty, lisense, and authority for him or others of his family to repair the same, as occasion shall require, and for him and others of his family for the tyme being to sitt and kneele therein dureing the tyme of Divine service in the said Church : To be by him and them held, used, and enjoy'd for and during soe long tyme as he and they, or any or either of them, shall continue to be inhabitants of and within our said bur- rough. In Wittness whereof wee have hereunto sett our hands, and affixed the comon seale of our said burrough, this one and twentyeth day of February Anno Dm. i7^f. In the same year, 17 18, the mayor submitted to counsel a statement, from which the following are extracts : In the Church there was, long since, an organ, taken down and destroyed in the time of the civil wars, but some of the pypes, the