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Mount Edgcumbe, and having for one of its branches the Hamoaze, 
being thus carefully excluded. 
6th, We have the imputations of double-dealing so freely thrown 
out against Drake for the part which he took in Committee in 
relation to the second Haven Bill of 1592. 
And now to sum up as briefly as possible the substance of what 
has been brought forward in rebuttal of these statements in the 
more extended lecture. 
1st. Was there a pre-existing Warleigh Mill Leaf? The evidence 
alleged in support of this assertion consists of the gossip of the 
old man Giles, and also of a passage extracted from the present 
title-deeds of the Sheepstor estate. I need only refer to the latter. 
The deed of purchase by the Northmores of Sheepstor Manor from 
the Elford family, about 1751, recites a provision that "Walter 
Eadcliffe, Esq., of Warleigh" (the then owner), "had to pay Id. 
rental for the running of the Warleigh Mill Leat into the Meavy 
above the Plymouth Head Weir." 
The contention on this point, of course, is this : The only Ply- 
mouth Head Weir must be that at Sheepstor, where the manor is, 
and so the leat must first have run from Sheepstor to Warleigh. But 
recent discoveries in the Eecord Office with regard to the Crymes' 
Inquiry under the Star Chamber, in 1602, do not seem to confirm 
the view of there being only one Plymouth Head Weir. In this 
inquiry the examinations of Edwards and Cripps, referring to the 
scene of the dispute between Thomas Drake and Crymes and his 
fellows, expressly state the dispute to have occurred "on Eoborough 
Down, on the high road near the Head Weir," and on Crymes' 
property. It is no sufficient reply to this to say that Eoborough 
Down once extended as far as Sheepstor ; for, if so, the face of the 
country must have changed in a remarkable manner; for Yannadon 
Down now lies between, and it can by no means be identified with 
Eoborough Down, though Eoborough Hundred extends as far as 
Lifton. Besides this we have to identify the high road lying near 
Crymes' property, and we can only get our site near the tinworks 
on Eoborough Down, which are marked on the local map, and 
certainly cannot be pushed on to the neighbourhood of Sheepstor. 
We therefore conclude, that as every leat is said to have its own 
head weir, there must have been a Eoborough Head Weir, also 
called a Plymouth Head Weir, where the Warleigh Leat now runs 
out of the Plymouth Leat near Eoborough Mills. To this may be 
