[377] Rot. Scoc. 10 Ed. 3. m. 16.
[378] Pat. 10 Ed. 3. p. 2, m. 40.
APPENDIX.
XIII.
THE HUNDREDS OF CORNWALL.
Prefixed to Tonkin’s MS. of the Parochial History of Cornwall (with additions in notes by J. Whitaker) are the following notes:
Mem. Mr. Hawkins tells me that there is a camp near Trutheun, in Bishop’s Wood, not large.
Carew (Edition 1769) fol. 30. The Cornish “pay in most places onely fee Morton releeses, which is after five markes the whole knight’s fee (so called of John, Earle first of Morton, then of Cornwall, and lastly King of this land); whereas, that of fee Gloucester is five pounds.”
The MS. is in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Pye, Rector of Truro, and had been recovered by him from imminent destruction, as he told me, at a house formerly belonging to Mr. Tonkin, and then inhabited by Mr. Fortescue. A MS. in folio, and another in quarto, had been left in a cupboard of the kitchen, and applied to culinary purposes. Mr. Pye’s attention was arrested by seeing part of the quarto wrapping round some plumb cake; he therefore begged the rest. And he found the Folio had been used entirely, and the quarto up to the letter P. and page 406. With this account he made me (as I thought) a present of the MS. I therefore wrote some additions of my own upon the blank places of it. He afterwards desired me (as I thought) to lend it him awhile. But when I sent for it back again, he denied he had ever meant to give it me; and I thought myself obliged in honour to waive all claim to the property, and to borrow it for transcription. But I then erased my