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 332 THE CONGREGATIONAL CHAT EL. 28th June, 1707, Mr. Edward Bennett obtained from Richard Tregear, and Dorothy his wife, in consideration of £25, " a plot or piece of land, being part of a garden belonging to Nicholas Cowle's house, within the borough of Launceston, and lying at the lower end of the said garden, as the same was then marked out from the other part of the said garden, and containing about forty feet square, together with the walls to the same plot adjoining and belonging, which premises were bounded with the Northgate Street on the east, the lands of the said Richard Tregear on the south, the land of the widow Cock, held of the Corporation of Launceston, on the west, and Castle Street on the north." [This definition accurately marks the site of the existing Congregational Chapel] An indenture dated the same 28th June, 1707, recites the aforesaid codicil, and the purchase from Tregear at ^"25, and states that it was intended that the residue of the £120 should be laid out in building a meeting-house for use of a Presbyterian congregation. And then the said Edward Bennett conveyed to Thomas Johnson, and five other persons by name, the piece of land hereinbefore described, upon trust that the trustees should for ever, after the erection of such house, permit the same to be used as a meeting-house for the public worship of God by a Presby- terian congregation, and according to the way and usage of Presbyterians dissenting from the Established Church of England, or else for such other contingent uses as were directed by the said codicil. On the 23rd September, 171 2, the trustees appointed some additional persons to act jointly with themselves in executing the aforesaid trusts. On the 25th September, 17 1 2, the property comprised in the deeds of 1707 was vested in the old and new trustees by the description of " all that plot or piece of land now erected into and com- monly called and used as a meeting-house for the public