NOTES OF MINUTES DUCHY OF COEIs^WAlL COUNCIL. 165 



March, 1875.— Visit of tlie Black Prince to Cornwall, 28 Edw. 

 3. — Note. — Tliere ought to be added to the other Documents 

 extracted from the Minutes of the Duchy Council, the following ; 



(Ti-anslation)- "Edward the Prince, &c., to the Auditors of the Aceoimts of 

 John Dabnoun, lately Keeper of our Fees. — Order "to allow in the Accounts 

 of the said John, three shillings and twopence, which the said John paid for 

 one grey Cap (capain), bought by him by our command, which John Kelyggen 

 ought by custom to carry before us at our entry in Cornwall. Dated at 

 Exeter, 13th Septemb r, 28 Edw. 3i-d." 



The 13th September was the day before the departure of the 

 Prince from Exeter, en route for London, on his return from 

 Eestormell, and this order, as it appears on the Council Minutes, 

 was almost the last given by him on that occasion. 



Lysons in his ' Cornwall, ' under the titles Cardinham and 

 St. Neot, notices a tenui-e, which may possibly be that referred 

 to in the foregoing extract,— as belonging to the Manors of 

 Cabilla and Pengelly, stating that it was the office of the owner 

 of Cabilla to provide the 'Cap' (Lysons calls it the " C'loa/c'^) 

 and the owner of Pengelly to carry it, and that it was the duty 

 of the owner of the former Manor to attend the Duke diu'ing 

 his stay in Cornwall. 



Sir John Maclean also refers to evidence of the teniu'e of 

 carrying the Cap to a tenant of lands in the Manor of Helston 

 in Trigg, and that it was to be carried behind and not before the 

 Prince, and that this tenant in Helston Manor had the Cap 

 provided for him by the Duke, and that he carried it at the 

 expense of the Duke for 40 days. It is probable, therefore, 

 that of these tenures, Kelyggens is that to which the Minute 

 relates, as the Prince was at the cost of the Cap. 



The preparation by the command of the Prince of the Cap to 

 be used on this occasion in discharge of the tenure, implies that 

 the visit to Cornwall was not the result of a hastily improvised 

 resoltition by the Prince to have a glimjDse of his Duchy, but 

 that it was made with due prej^aration for a ' Seigneur ial ' 

 inspection. 



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