The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
In 5 Edw. III. upon[372] the king’s expedition into Scotland, he was
again appointed[373] his lieutenant here during his absence. And in 7
Edw. III. had another grant[374] in tail general of the hundreds in
Cornwall; likewise of the town of Lestwithiel, with all the issues and
profits of that county, then belonging to the king, viz. of the ports,
wreck of sea, prizes, and customs, as also of the yearly ferme of the
city of Exeter, with the profits of the water of Sutton, in com.
Devon, and of the stannaries and coinage thereof in that county;
likewise of the river of Dertmouth, with the profits of the mines in
Cornwall, and of the town of Yvelchester in com. Somerset.
In 8 Edw. III. he obtained license[375] for to have a market every
week, upon the Thursday, at his manor of Wintringham in com. Lincoln,
as also for two fairs, one on the eve, day, and morrow of St. Philip
and St. James, and six days next ensuing; the other on the eve and day
of All Saints, and six days following; likewise for two fairs at
Kirketon, the same, one on the eve and day of the translation of St.
Thomas the Martyr, and six days after; the other on the eve and day of
St. Andrew the Apostle, and six days ensuing; and in 9 Edw. III.
was[376] in that expedition then made into Scotland; so likewise in 10
Edw. III. at which time the king having intelligence that the French
had promised to aid the Scots, he marched[377] himself into that realm
with a great army, and fortified the castle of Stryvelyn, with a great
ditch, as also the town of St. Johnston’s, at which place this John
Earl of Cornwall, then[378] also being and falling sick, departed[378]
this life without wife or issue, and was afterwards honourably buried
in St. Edmund’s chapel, within the abbey church of Westminster, where
his monument still remaineth.
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A list of those individuals who have held the Lands and the
Patronage of the ancient Princes of Cornwall, with the Nominal
Office of Duke, since the settlement made by King Edward the Third.
1. EDWARD PLANTAGENET, the Black Prince, created by Charter,
confirmed in Parliament, A. D. 1337, with this clause:
Habend. et tenend. eidem Duci et ipsius ac heredum suor. Regum Angl.
_Filiis primogenitis_, et Ducib. dicti loci in Regno Angl. hereditarie
successur.
Which has been thus translated:
To have and to hold to the same Duke, and to the first begotten sons
of him, and of his heirs, _Kings of England_, and to the Dukes of the
said place in the Kingdom of England, hereditarily to succeed. (See
Lord Dunstanville’s Edition of Carew, pp. 433-441.)
2. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, afterwards King Richard the Second, in
opposition, as it would seem, to the words of the grant, as his
father had never been King of England.
3. HENRY PLANTAGENET, son and heir of King Henry the Fourth,
afterwards King Henry the Fifth.
4. EDWARD PLANTAGENET, son and heir of King Henry the Sixth,
murdered in 1471.
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