Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/67

 From the date of Man's lease to the time of passing the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dunheved otherwise Launceston continued to grant leases, at gradually-increasing rents, of "the Hospital lands of St. Leonard." At present the estate is vested in Local Charity Trustees, who are said to apply its modern yearly rent of £36 towards the support of the Rowe Dispensary.

No leper has claimed to reside in the hospital from a time anterior to 1697.

The little bridge across the Kensey shown in our illustration may have been the immediate result of the presentment which we have cited, made by the Sergeants-at-Mace on the 9th January, 1580, that "The Bridg at St Leonard's is