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enjoyed under grant from his predecessors the Kings of England, 

 namely on Mid-lent day and the day following, on the vigil of 

 Michaelmas day and the day following, and on the vigil of the 

 day of St. Michael in Monte Tomba (16 October), and which they 

 had hitherto held on land not their own at Marghasbigan, should 

 in future be held on their own land at Marchadyou near their 

 grange ; but so that such fairs must be conducted according to 

 the law and custom of England, and must not be to the injury 

 of any other fair. I am not able to identify the position of 

 Marghasbigan, and think it may possibly not be a locality at all 

 but merely a privilege extending over some part of what is now 

 the township of Marazion. The name (meaning "the little 

 market") also appears as Marghasvean, and is doubtless the 

 same as de pmrvo mercato in the 1261 taxation of St. Hilary 

 Vicarage. Some of our local historians speak of the two markets 

 as the same, but this is clearly an error.* 



By a charter dated at Eestormel, 30th December, 1290, 

 Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, recites and confirms the grants of his 

 father the said Eichard, King of the Romans. In the two 

 charters which come under his "Inspeximus," many places are 

 named which have not been identified, but some can be, as, for 

 example, the Moor of Goonhib, which is probably Goonhilly 

 Downs, part of which seems to have gone with the grant of 

 Treraboe in St. Keverne which is also mentioned. In addition to 

 confirming the former grants, Edmund further granted and 

 confirmed to God and the blessed Mary and Saint Michael and to 

 the Prior and Monks of St. Michael's Mount, all his estate 

 {quantum in nobis est) in the Mount itself, with a hide of land and 

 its appurtenances, free from all customary obHgations, as formerly 

 held by Robert, Count of Mortain ; also 3 acres of land in Manael, 

 Trurabo, Lesmanack, Trerravers, Carnalel, with their appurte- 

 nances, as the said Robert of Mortain held them. He also 

 granted to the Priory that on a vacancy in the office of Prior he 

 would account for all receipts during such vacancy beyond the 

 sum necessary for the maintenance of the custodian of the 

 Priory. 



*In other documents also the two are treated as distinct, e.g., in a Deed Poll 

 dated on the Monday next after the feast of the Nativity, 11 Henry iv, Ralph 

 Vivian gave to Jeffery Seynaubyn "all his messuages in Margrasiou, Marghas- 

 vihan and Breuaunak." 



