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 3 68 ST. THOMAS CHURCH. performing important parish duties, but even these are simply defined as "the six men." It seems to us that the payment to Harry Maker "at the Commission time" has direct reference to the Commis- sion set out at pages 188-89. [By the way, the date there printed 30th November, 1549, should have been 1548 (2 Edvv. VI.), and we have now ascertained the date of the award to have been 10th January, 1548-9 (2 Ed. VI.).] The hamlet of St. Thomas was part, not only of the parish of St. Thomas, but of the borough of Dunheved, and the dissensions which affected one portion of the borough affected the whole of it. Some church funds of St. Thomas were, therefore, used in aid of the costs of the Commis- sioners' enquiry. That the church was indirectly concerned in the enquiry, appears from the fact that the award directs the parties to make their yearly account, as well of the lands and goods of the town as of the goods of the church. The inventory of the St. Thomas Church goods carried to Lost- withiel, and the journey of the constable to "answer there before the Commissioner for the priest," probably refers to a matter mentioned in the following document. By deed, dated 2nd April, 3 Ed. VI. (1550) [Patent Roll, part i. m. (35)8], the king conveyed to Giles Keylwey and William Leonard (among other lands and rectories) property thus described : [Trans.] All that our rectory and Church of St. Thomas, near Launceston, in our County of Cornwall, with all its appur- tenances, to the late Priory of Launceston, in our County of Cornwall, now dissolved, sometime belonging and parcel of the possessions thereof, and all houses, tithe-barns, glebe-lands, meadows, tithes of garbs, grain, and blades, and tithes of wool and lambs, and all other small tithes of ours whatsoever, situate and growing or renewing in the parish of Saint Thomas, near Launceston aforesaid, or elsewhere in our said County of Corn- wall, to the said Rectory of Saint Thomas, near Launceston, appertaining, or parcel of the lands, possessions, or revenues of