158 NOTES OF MINUTES DUCHY OF C0ENWA1,L COUTS^CIL. 



LOSTWITHIEL. 



Also they, the jurors, say upon their oath, that there are 

 there in the borou.gh aforesaid, 305 burgages which render by 

 the year, at the feast of St. Michael, £8. 13. 3^. ; also there 

 are there three water-mills, and they worth by the j'ear £12; 

 the sullage there in water of Fawe is worth hj the year 6s. 8d. ; 

 the fairs there on the day of St. Bartholomew are worth by the 

 year 2s. ; the chevage of villeins there is worth by the year 2s. ; 

 the pleas and perquisites of courts there are worth by the year 

 50s; also the cellar of the great hall, with the houses of stannary 

 there is worth by the year 66s. 8d. Sum £27. Os. 7|^d. 



The Prince's visit (1353) being only the year before this 

 Inquisition, it may be regarded as describing accurately what he 

 then found these possessions to consist of. 



At a date (1347) between the date of the grant of the Duchy 

 to the Prince in 1337, and the Prince's visit to Cornwall in 1353, 

 Sir Edward Kendall, Knight, was the Prince's Steward of 

 Cornwall, and it was probabty his son, John de Kendall, who 

 became under the Prince the Constable of Restormell Castle, 

 and the Prince's Receiver in Cornwall, making the Castle his 

 residence. It was to this John de Kendall that nearly haK the 

 orders issued by the Prince in Council are directed. 



The fact of the 2nd visit of the Prince to Cornwall rests upon 

 the evidence of a minute of Council, dated 8th June, 37 Ewd. 

 3rd (1362), signed by the Prince "on bourd ship in the Sarhour 

 of Plymouth,'''' directing a pajTnent of £12. 8s. lOd. to be allowed 

 to his Receiver, John de Kendall, for his disbursements on the 

 Prince's account "when he ivm staying at Restormell hetiveen St. 

 Matthias Day last and JSaster last.'' 



In a memoii' of the Black Prince by James it is stated that 

 the year 1362 was passed by the Prince in making preparation 

 for his passage into Aquitaine to assume the Government of that 

 and the adjacent provinces then belonging to England, and that 

 he with his wife and court were at RocheUe in Fehruary, 1363. 

 It is probable that the Prince was in Devon or Cornwall early 

 in the year 1362, not only to urge on the preparations at Ply- 

 mouth of the fleet that was to convey him to his Yiceroyalty, 

 but, contemplating a long absence from England, he was desirous 

 of ascertaining by personal inspection to what extent his Duchy 

 had deteriorated in value by the ravages of the plague, which 



