The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Moyle’s Works, i. p. 247. H. E.]
VI. CONSTANTYN, _in the deanry of_ Kerryer.
This seems to have been a church of more than ordinary note, by what
is said in Domesday Book under the title _Ecclesiæ aliquorum
Sanctorum_; scil. “S. Constantinus tenet dim. hidam terræ, quæ fuit
quieta ab omni servitio T. R. E. sed postquam comes terram accepit,
reddebat geldum injuste, sicut terra villanorum.” This church was
afterwards appropriate to the dean and chapter of Exeter, who are
still the patrons of it.
[Domesd. tom. i. fol. 121. H. E.]
VII. ENDELLION, _in the deanry of_ Trigge Minor.
COLLEGE. In the parish church here, dedicated to St. Endelienta, were
three prebends or portions before _20 Ed. 1._[105] and subsist to this
day, and have incumbents under the titles of Bodmin or the King’s
prebend, Marney’s prebend, and Trehaverock prebend, taxed each at
5_l._ _per ann._ _26 Hen. 8._
VIII. ST. GERMANS.
AUSTIN CANONS. Here was a collegiate church of ancient foundation in
honor of St. German, one of the famous French bishops, who came over
into Britain to oppose the Pelagian heresy. K. Ethelstan is said to
have made one Conon bishop here, A.D. 936, though it seems more
probable that the episcopal see for Cornwall was not fixed here till
after the burning of the bishop’s house and cathedral church at
Bodmin; after which K. Canute more amply endowed this church of St.
German; and, about A. D. 1050. Leofric, who was bishop here and of
Crediton, having united both bishopricks in the church of St. Peter at
Exeter, changed the Seculars[106] here into Regular canons.[107] The
yearly revenues of this priory were valued, _26 Hen. 8._ at 243_l._
8_s._ Dugd. Speed 227_l._ 4_s._ 8_d._ Clare, ms. Valor. The site was
granted, _33 Hen. 8._ to Kath.[108] Champernoun, John Ridgway, &c.
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