The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Is situate in the hundred aforesaid, and hath upon the north, Crowan;
west, Germow; east, Sithney; south, the British Channel. Of the name
and titular guardian of this church I have spoken before. By the
Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, to the Pope’s annats, 1294,
ecclesia Sancti Breuc in decanatu de Kerryer, was rated 16_l._ Vicar
ejusdem 36_s._ It is now the mother church of Cury, Germow, and
Gunwallo, and goes in presentation and consolidation with them, though
at the time of the inquisition aforesaid they were taxed separate. In
Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, and Valor Beneficiorum, they are valued
together in first fruits 33_l._ The patronage in the crown, the
incumbent Trewinard. This parish was rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land
Tax 1696, 230_l._ 4_s._ temp. William III. At the time of the Norman
conquest, if this parish was not taxed under the jurisdiction of
Lanmigall, i. e. Michael’s Temple or Church, (now St. Michael’s Mount,)
the priors whereof, or the king or duke, endowed it, together with
those other before named, it was rated under the district of Treskeaw,
that is to say the skeawe, or elder-tree town, a place, as I am
informed, well known and still extant there.
In the pleas of the crown in the Exchequer, 12th Edward I., I found it
thus written of Pengelly in this parish.
“Johannes de Treveally tenet in Pengelly, in comitatu Cornubiæ,
dimidium acram terræ Cornubiensem, (above a hundred English,) per
sergiantiam recipiendi unam capam de grisando ad Pontem de Penleton,
cum Rex fuerit inveniendus versus Cornubiam; et intrando Domino de
Cabilla, qui eam in adventu domini Regis ibidem deferre debet, et eam
tradere eidem Johanni, qui quidem Johannes eandem capam ferre debet
cum domino Rege pro totam in Cornubiam;” which Mr. Hals interprets,
that the half acre Cornish is held by the duty of its owner receiving
a great coat from some one in Devonshire at Penleton Bridge, and to
carry it about for the King’s use, so long as he remains in Cornwall.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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