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bounded as followeth and conteyned inclusive within the said 
bounds, may be a parish district, and independent of its selfe, and 
have parish rights for ever ; viz. from the pumpe on the new kay, 
within the said burrough, and up through Batter Street on the east 
side of the said street, and thence by Looe Street until you come 
to Pope's Head, and thence down Buckwell Street on the east side 
thereof until you come to Bilbury Bridge, and thence to Hampton 
Shoote, and from thence to the higher end of Green Street, and 
thence through the kinge's higheway that leadeth towards Plympton 
until you come to the bottom of Lipson-hill on the east side 
thereof, and from thence all alonge by the sea side and cliffs until 
you come to Lary Point, and from thence along by the sea side and 
cliffs untill you come to Catdowne, and from thence all along by 
the sea side and cliffs until you come to Fryery Green, and from 
thence direct over the water and poole to the pumpe on the new kay 
aforesaid : and that the Mayor and Commonalty of the burrough 
aforesaid and their successors for ever, may have the presentation 
and patronage thereof, and that His Majesty would be likewise 
graciously pleased to name the said parish and church ; And we do 
further consent and agree that Sir James Bagg Kt, a liberall bene- 
factor towarde the said work, shall present the said petition to His 
Majesty according to his noble and free offer therein ; which being 
obteyned of His Majesty we doe further order consent and agree 
that the Mayor of the said burrough for the time being, shall 
assemble and call together ourselves, and the rest of the inhabitants 
within the said burrough together, and receive our devotions 
benevolences and free will offerings towarde the speedy perfecting 
and consummating of soe pious and profitable a work. In testi- 
mony whereof we the said Mayor and major parte of the said 
Magistrates and Common Council have hereunto inscribed our 
names the day and yeare aforesaid." 
Following this resolution there came the petition to the King's 
most excellent Majesty : 
"The Humble Petition of the Mayor and Commonalty of the 
Borough of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, humbly sheweth 
That whereas your Majesty's Borough of Plymouth aforesaid, is so 
populous and of late times so much increased, that the Church there 
(though large and spacious) is unable to receive and contayne a 
multitude of your Majesty's subjects the inhabitants thereof, who 
by that means seldom repair to the church or hear divine service 
on the Sunday as they ought ; And whereas there is a willing and 
unanimous consent and concurrence among your petitioners, and 
several other able inhabitants within the said borough (besides the 
devotion of several worthy gentlemen our neighbours) for the rays- 
inge of money towards the erecting and buildinge of a new church 
within the said borough, and a convenient plott of ground and 
