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 Provosts, Henry le Tayllour and David le Proute. Given at the borough aforesaid on Thursday next before the Incarnation, in the year of Grace 1297.

Robert le Foyng$r$ to Richard de Dokaham : Grant of the grantor's right and claim in one penny and a halfpenny yearly which he was wont to receive at the feast of St. Michael in respect of a garden lying outside the Southgate of the borough of Dunhevet between the croft of Walter Jop and the garden of Everwin Giffard. Witnesses, Stephen Kech, then Mayor, John le Foyng$r$, Roger Tristram, Provosts, Richard le Marchaunt, and William the son of Magister. Given at the borough aforesaid on Friday next before the feast of St. George, 26th Ed. I. (1298).

We now note a deed which shows the early connection of the tenure of Bamham with that of Dunhefd. Bamham is partially situated in the parish of Lawhitton, and we shall see that there were, in after years, contentions between the men of Dunheved and the men of Lawhitton concerning jurisdiction over those lands.

Stephen of Duntestocha grants to Ralph his son, on his homage and service, the land of Botman [Bamham], with all its appurtenances and meadows and pastures and land, arable and not arable, and waters and ways and rights, and all its possessions and liberties, under the yearly rent of 12d. and 2d. which the grantor paid yearly to the prepositure of the castle of Dunhefd. The witnesses named are Alan the son of Richard, Reinbat de Sancto Nioto, (St. Neot), Richard the son of Stephen, Richard de Close, Ralph de Mora, Edward the son of Galfrid, Roger de Cacawicke, Robert the son of Sprakelin, William of Bodmam, Gilbert Hor- scho, Galfrid the son of Durande, and Alan the son of Galfrid.

Burgesses were first summoned to Parliament in the year 1265. Our list of Members will show that John Gerveys and Stephen le Duk were sent to Parliament for Dunheved in 1295, and that this Borough has been represented in the Lower House from that day to the present.

Stephen le Duk is named in one of the above abstracted