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)
As for the south aile of this church before-mentioned, it was called
Jesus Chapel, and therein was founded Trinity chantry; towards
building or endowment whereof the Lords of Resurrans tied these lands
for ever to pay to the same 13_s._ 4_d._ per annum, with power of
distress. At the dissolution of this chantry 1 Edward VI. John Chaplin
was chief chanter, or sole priest thereof, and seised of the said
rent, as his predecessors had been long before; and King Edward being
so possessed, by virtue of an Act of Parliament, sold the same, with
other things, to Sir Hugh Pomeroy, Knight, and Thos. Pomeroy, Esq. his
brother; who the 4th Edward VI. sold it to William Saplyn; and ――――
Saplyn, in the 1st and 2nd of Philip and Mary, sold it to John Glyn,
Esq., John Ganergan, William Prye, John Manifield, Richard Carter,
Henry Rouse, John Vivian, and Richard Hancanon, who were trustees for
the parish of Sancta Colomba. After which conveyances the Lord of
Resurrans refused to pay the said rent. Whereupon the parish
distrained those lands, and the owner thereof replevined the goods so
taken, which occasioned the parish bringing an action in replevin
against the replevers thereof; and for plea, by way of avowry, did
allege that those goods they ought to take, for that one John chaplain
of Trinity chantry was seised of the said rent in fee, as his
predecessors time out of mind had been before, in right of the said
chantry, from which it passed to King Edward the Sixth, and the
purchasers under him as aforesaid. Whereupon the issue passed for the
plaintiff, or parish, against the Lord of Resurrans. (See St. Michael
Penkivell, St. Mary Wike; also for Chantry, see St. Cuthbert for
prayer for the dead.)
In the year 1676, the greatest part of this church of St. Colomb was
casually blown up with gunpowder by three youths of the town, scholars
therein, who, in the absence of their master and the rest of their
companions, ignorantly set fire to a barrel of gunpowder, the parish
stores, laid up in the stone stairs and walls of the rood-loft, which
occasioned the destruction of it and themselves together; for the
glass-window, roofs, timber, stones, and pillars, thereby made a
direful concussion together, especially those shot from the walls of
the moorstone stairs aforesaid, to the total defacing the church and
many pews thereof.
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