APPENDIX G.
TO SHOW THAT THE HONOR OR LAND BARONY COMPRISED
THE LORDSHIP AND TERRITORIAL OWNERSHIP
OF THE COUNTY.1 - Placita Coram Rege, Michas. Term, 41 Edw. III. Ro. 71, Cornub.
The Prior of Mount St. Michael, by the Lord the King, and by John Pusy, whom he hath refused to admit to a corody in his said house, comes and says:-
That Robert, some time Earl of Morton, and Lord of the County of Cornwall, was seized of the Castle and Honor of Launceston, and of the aforesaid Mount Saint Michael, as appertaining to the Castle and Honor aforesaid. And he gave to God and the Monks of the Church of St. Michael de Periculo Maris, there serving God, the aforesaid Mount St. Michael, where the Priory is situated and founded, together with other lands and tenements, as in a certain charter which he here tenders, &c., is testified to hold of him the said Earl and his heirs for ever, the estate of which Lordship the Lord the King that now is lately had. And he says that the Priory of Saint Michael, in Cornwall, is a cell of the house aforesaid of St. Michael in Periculo Maris, which house or church de periculo maris was, and yet is, an Abbey. And he says that the now Lord the King granted to the Lord Edward, his eldest son, &c., Prince of Wales, the whole county of Cornwall, with the Castle and Honor aforesaid, &c., to the which the aforesaid Priory in Cornwall appertains, &c., with the Knights' fees, advowsons of Abbeys, Priories, Churches, &c., with the prerogatives and profits, &c., as fully and entirely as the Lord the King, &c. To have to the same Prince and his heirs male, being the eldest sons of the Kings of England ; saving thereof to the Lord the King and his heirs the reversion as in the Charter made to the same Prince it is contained. At the time of which grant and afterwards, one Roland Trewynard had the corody aforesaid, at the asking of the said Lord the King, by grant of the Prior of the place aforesaid. And the same now Prior says that he, by virtue of the grant aforesaid, is intendant to the aforesaid Prince, as to his Lord patron, and so holds the Priory aforesaid of the foundation of the aforesaid Robert, and of the patronage of the aforesaid Prince in form aforesaid, &c. A day is given in the Octaves of St. Hilary. But in Trinity 45 Rex, Roll 15, judgment is rendered that the Prior do allow the corody to Roger le Cowper [who was the Duke's nominee].2 - Plac. Abb. 3 John, Rot. 6.
At the assize which came to ascertain if Reinard, the father of llliethon, the wife of Richard, was seized in his demesne, &c., of one acre of land, &c. in Hendre, Hamo de Hendre says, that the aforesaid Reinard was outlawed in the full County Court, and in such outlawry was afterwards slain. Richard and his wife say that he never was outlawed, but that in truth he expatriated himself on account of his enemies, and at length came to Earl Reginald, qui Comitatum Cornubiæ habuit et omnia quae ad Dominum Regem pertinebant, and afterwards made peace with and was reconciled to him, and afterwards acknowledged that he was outlawed, but Earl Reginald pardoned him of his outlawry, and then he recovered seizing.
IN THE COFFER OF V.
3 - Book of the Ancient Treasury of the Exchequer, B. 1, 6.
In this book are contained all charters, quit-claims, writings, agreements, fines upon certain charters, and all letters of agreement which were made to the Lord Ed-- formerly Earl of Cornwall, now remaining in the hands of the Lord the King.
*************** Know all men present and future, that I, Roger de Valletort, have given, granted, and by this my present charter have confirmed for me and my heirs, " Serenissimo Domino Ricardo Dei Gratia Romanorum Regi semper augusto et Domino Cornubiæ," and the heirs of his body begotten and to be begotten, and the heirs of the bodies begotten and to be begotten of those heirs, the Castle of Tremarton, &c.-------------------------bottom of page 15 (first text page App F)--------------------------
4 - Plat. Rot. 28 Hen. III. (53) M. 7.
The King to all merchants to whom, &c., greeting. We command you and strictly prohibit that none of you, as he loves his body and chattels, should take away from our "Terra Devoniæ," or from the " Terra de Cornubia," of our beloved brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall, either by land or by sea, without the licence of our Bailiffs of our Stannary of the County of Devon, or without the licence of the Bailiffs of our said brother of his Stannary of Cornwall, and unless it should be marked with our stamp of Devon, or with the stamp of the said Earl of his Stannary of Cornwall. Let be known for certain that if any merchant shall have been found carrying away tin from our " Terra Devoniæ," or from the " Terra de Cornubia" of the said Earl, either by land or sea, without the licence of our Bailiffs, or those of the said Earl, and not marked with our stamp, or that of the said Earl, as is aforesaid, we will take his body and chattels wherever they may be found in our land. In witness, &c. Witness as above at Westminster, 2nd April.
Charter to the Community of the Land of Cornwall.
5 - Charter Roll, 45 Hen. III. No. 11, 18th June, A.D. 1261.
The King to the Archbishops, &c., greeting. Whereas, our very dear brother Richard, the illustrious King of the Romans, ever august, for the common advantage of the whole land of Cornwall, did grant for himself and his heirs, that all and every the inhabitants of the same land may have and take in all the lands of him, the said King, and of his men, and also throughout all Cornwall, sea sand without payment; and throughout the lands of him, the said King, and of his men, and throughout all Cornwall, may freely, peaceably, and without let of any one be able to heap up (or stack) the sand upon their lands, and to carry it throughout all Cornwall, by a reasonable way (or road) assigned or to be assigned to them, for the fertilization of the same land. So, nevertheless, that if the same King, or they over whose lands or upon whose lands it shall happen that the aforesaid sand be carried or stacked, shall incur any damage, on account of the stacking or way, a competent satisfaction shall be made to them in reasonable compensation of such damage, to be taxed upon the award of good and lawful men of the same land, and by the Steward for the time being of him, the said King; or an agreement may be made with them beforehand for a sum certain, as in the Charter of the aforesaid King thereupon made to the community of the land aforesaid, and which we have inspected, more fully it is contained. We, ratifying and approving the said grant, do grant and confirm the same, so far as to us pertains, for us and our heirs, as the Charter aforesaid of him the said King, our brother, doth reasonably testify. These being witnesses: William de Valence, our brother, Reginald Fitz Peter, and others, &c. Given under the hand of Master Nicholas, Archdeacon of Ely, our Chancellor, at Guildford, on the 18th day of June.
6 - Inquis. ad. q. d. 7 Edward II. No. 155, 6th March, 6 Edward II. A.D. 1313.
Edward, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Acquitain, to his beloved and trusty William de Botereux, Thomas Larcediakne, and Thomas de la Hyde, greeting. We have understood from certain persons that Edmund, sometime Earl of Cornwall, our cousin, by reason of his Lordship of the County aforesaid (ratione Dominii sui Comitatus prædicti), was accustomed to be preferred before other merchants, denizen and alien, in the emption of all the tin which had been to be sold in the same county of Cornwall, so that no other person there should intermeddle in the emption of the like tin so long as the said Earl was willing to buy it to his own behoof. And the said Lordship hath now come into our hands by hereditary right. Wherefore we, adverting to the said custom as one that should pertain to us by reason of our aforesaid Lordship, did assign our beloved merchant, Anthony Pessaigne, to buy in our name all the tin for sale in the County aforesaid, and to make our profit thereof as in our Letters Patent of the aforesaid assignment made to the aforesaid Anthony more fully it is contained; and because we are given to understand that certain merchants in the County aforesaid have caused and still do cause the like tin to be privately and stealthily bought and carried out of our realm since the assignment aforesaid made thereof to the aforesaid Anthony, and that some of our tinners there carrying tin out of the aforesaid County into the County of Devon have had the boldness to sell it to divers merchants under concealment, without paying to us for the same any custom of coignage, in prejudice and contempt of us, and to our inestimable damage. We, willing to look to our indemnity in this behalf, have assigned you to inquire by the oaths of good and lawful men of the aforesaid Counties of Cornwall and Devon (by whom the truth of the matter can best be known), into the truth fully respecting the names, as well of the names of the merchants aforesaid who have bought tin in the said County of Cornwall, after our assignment aforesaid made to the aforesaid Anthony, as also of the names of those tinners who have carried tin out of the same County into the aforesaid County of Devon, and to whom they have sold it, and how often and when and at what price, and how and in what manner and of the value of the like tin so sold, and of the losses and damages which have arisen to us thereby, and of other circumstances touching the same business. And therefore we command you that, after you have made the inquisition aforesaid, you send it to us without delay under your seals, and the seals of those by whom it shall have been made, and this writ. For we have commanded our Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid that, at certain days and places which you shall make known to them, they do cause to come before you so many and such good and lawful men of their Bailiwicks, by whom the truth of the matter in the premises can best be known and enquired of ; and that in places within their Bailiwicks, where to them it shall seem most expedient, they do cause it publicly to be
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proclaimed, and on our behalf strictly prohibited, that no merchants or others, other than the aforesaid Anthony, shall presume, under a heavy forfeiture to us, to buy or sell the like tin or to carry it elsewhere without our special licence, so long as the aforesaid Anthony is willing to buy it to our behoof. In testimony whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness ourself at Windsor, on the 6th day of March, in the sixth year of our reign.
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