The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4) — John Shaqi
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
History
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
The body of St. Catherine was found five hundred years afterwards,
when the Saracens had possession of Egypt, although it is not recorded
by whom the discovery was made, nor how the identity was proved. A
subsequent great event, however, placed that most important
circumstance beyond all doubt; for it having been resolved to
translate the body from the immediate power of the Mahometans to a
monastery built on Mount Sinai by St. Helena, and augmented by
Justinian, a company of angels, probably the very same who destroyed
the wheel, conveyed the relics to Mount Sinai through the air.
Some recent martyrologists have endeavoured to explain away the latter
miracle, by asserting that angels meant monks, who on account of the
purity of their morals, the sanctity of their divine duties, and the
eminent utility of their lives, are frequently confounded with the
inhabitants of heaven.――It is almost needless to add that St.
Catherine’s Wheel has uniformly reference to the intended instrument
of her martyrdom, and never to a spinning-wheel, of which the Saint is
sometimes supposed in England to have been the inventor. EDITOR.]
But for the church and tower of Foy, as it now stands, it was built
about the year 1466, towards which Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick,
was a great benefactor; as appears from his badge, or cognizance, viz.
ragged staves, yet to be seen cut in many parts of the stones of the
said church and tower thereof.
The town of Foys is the voke lands of an ancient lordship by
prescription, which the Prior of Tywardreth held of the ancient Earl
of Cornwall’s manor of Pow-vallet-coyt, now Lostwithiel, or Restormel
Castle, under the rent of ――――; from whom also they had their
privilege of sending two members to sit in the Commons’ House of
Parliament. It was incorporated by Charles the Second, by the name of
the Mayor, Recorder, Portreeve, eight Aldermen, and a Town Clerk.
Notwithstanding which, by ancient custom, the members of Parliament
were elected by the freemen, (viz. scot and lot men, that pay rates
and taxes) and the precept from the Sheriff for the writ for election
of them must be thus directed: Præposito et Senescallo Burgi de Foy,
in Comitatu Cornubiæ, salutem, &c. As also the writ for removing any
action at law depending in Foy court-leet to a superior court, must be
directed to the Portreeve and Town Clerk or Steward.
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