CHARTER, ST. LAWRENCE DE PONTEBOY. 23 



our heires and successors. And furder we, of our especiall grace 

 certen knowledge, and mere mocion, for us, our heires and succes- 

 sors, do graunt and confirme unto the said Maister or Grovernour, 

 brethren and sisters of Elizabeth, Queue of England, of St. Law- 

 rence de Ponteboye in Cornewall, and to their successors, all that 

 the mansyon howse de Ponteboy, alias St. Lawrence de Ponte- 

 boye, wherein the said lazer people nowe dwell, with thre farthinges 

 land and twoe mylles, parcell of the possessyons nowe or lately 

 belonginge, or reputed to be belonginge to the said lazer howse, 

 wherof the one is scituate nere unto Benduye, with all water 

 courses, leetes, libertyes and hereditamentes to the said mansion 

 house, mylles and landes in any wise belonginge or apperteyninge ; 

 and also we, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer 

 mocion, doe furder gyve and graunt unto the said Master and 

 Governor, brethren and sisters and to their successors, all that 

 one farthinge land with all his rightes, members, and appurtenances 

 which the said Hospitall sometime held of one Symon the sonne 

 of one John Alcred, scituate, lyenge, and beinge in St. Lawi^ence 

 aforesaid nere unto the said Hospitall, and which were lately also 

 parcell or reputed parcell of the possessyons belonginge to the 

 said lazer house, and one Faire to be kepte in a feild adioyninge 

 to the said Hospitall, called the Faire feild or Faire close, and in 

 other convenient places adjoyninge to the said Hospitall, lyenge 

 without the towne of Bodman in the said County of Cornewall, 

 everye yere for ever, to be kepte at the feaste of St. Lawrence by 

 the space of thre dayes, that is to saye, on St. Lawrence eve, St. 

 Lawrence day, and the morowe upon St. Lawrence daye, with all 

 courtes of pypowders, proffitts, commodityes, incidents and ad- 

 vantages whatsoever to the said faire belonginge or appertaninge, 

 or cominge, risinge or happening, for or by reason of the same.* 

 And furdermore we, of our especiall grace, certen knowledg and 

 meer mocion, for us, our heires and successors, do gyve and 

 graunte by thes presents unto the said Master or Governor, breth- 



* Lysons states that James I, a few months after his accession, granted 

 to the Hospital a weekly market on Wednesdays, and an annual fair, with a 

 coiTrt of piepowder, on-^he festiTal of St. Luke. The market has been long 

 discontinued, but the fair, for cattle, &c., held August 21, is still kept up ; 

 there is also another fair for cattle, at St. Lawrence, October 29 and oO. 

 Magna Brit., Cornwall, p. 36. 



