_Vide_ inter munimenta eccl. cath. Exon. cartam abbatis et conventus de Valle, de resignatione hujus prioratus. [Bishop Lyttelton in a letter to Browne Willis, copied in MS. Cole, Brit. Mus. vol. xl. p. 59. says, “In the last edition of the Monastica Notitia the author queries if there was any Priory at Tregony in Cornwall. I find the original resignation thereof of the Abbat de Valle in Normandy to the Bp. of Exon, Peter Quivil, for the use of the Priory of Merton, together with the advowsons of the parish churches of Tregony and Bury, dated 1267.” H. E.] XXXIII. TRURO. BLACK FRIERS. In the latter end of K. Henry 3d’s reign,[172] a convent of Black friers settled in Kenwyn street.[173] Rauf Reskimer left a benefaction, _2 Ed. 4._ to this house, of which his ancestors had been founders. It was granted, _7 Ed. 6._ to Edward Aglianby. _Vide_ Leland. Itin. vol. iii. p. 27. vol. vii. p. 120. In Itin. Will. de Worcestre, p. 128, excerpta ex kalendario. Pat. 49 Ed. 3. p. 2. m. 26. pro manso elargando. Claus. 2 Ed. 4. n. 101. d. XXXIV. TRUWARDRAITH,[174] Tuwardraz,[175] _or_ Tywardreit, _in the deanry of_ Powder. ALIEN PRIORY. An alien priory of Benedictine monks[176] belonging to the abbey of St. Sergius and Bachus in Angiers,[177] founded before A.D. 1169. by Champernulphus or Chambernon of Bere,[178] lord of the manor of Tywardreith, or by the ancestors of Robert de Cardinan,[179] perhaps Robert Fitz William. It was seised by the Crown during the wars with France, and its farm then fixed at fifty marks _per ann._[180] but being afterwards made denisen it continued till the general suppression, about which time herein were seven monks,[181] whose revenues were rated at 123_l._ 9_s._ 3_d._ _per ann._ Dugd. 151_l._ 16_s._ 1_d._ Speed. It was dedicated to St. Andrew, and granted _34 Hen. 8._ to Edward earl of Hertford.