In Thorpe’s Cat. of MSS. 1833. No. 281. is a “Survey of the lands belonging to the Priory at Launceston, at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1539, 31 Hen. VIII. a contemporary Record, a long roll, upon paper, in fine condition, £16 16.” H. E.]
XV. LESKARD, or Minhenned, near Leskard.
Hospital. Here was anciently a house for lepers,[128] for there is an indulgence granted by Edm. Stafford bishop
of Exeter, to all those who should contribute to the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Leskard, about A.D. 1400.[129]
XVI. St. MARTIN’S.
Nunnery.[130]
XVII. MARY WEEK, in the deanry of Trigge Minor.
College. A college[131] and school here, as Carew.
XVIII. St. MAWES.[132]
In the cart. roll of the fifteenth year of K. John, m. 2. n. 42. there is a grant of a hundred shillings per ann. out of the church of St. Berian in Cornwall to the monks of St. Matthew. I have not yet found any monastery elsewhere in England dedicated to that Apostle.