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)
This church is a rectory, valued in the King’s Book very high, £31;
the patronage in Christ Church College, Oxford; the present incumbent
Mr. George Allanson (vicar likewise of Budock and Gluvias) who
succeeded ―――― Collier.
The manor of Tinten, id est [as the name appears below to be Tynton,
Din Don, Tin Ton, the hill house. W.]
In the extent of Cornish acres, 12 Edward I. (Carew, fol. 47 b.) this
is valued in twelve.
This was anciently the seat of the family of the same name. Johannes
de Tynten is named among the knights of the county of Cornwall, 17
Edward II. when John de Treiagu was Sheriff (Ibid. fol. 51). Johannes
de Tynton (probably his father, for this was no knight) was one of
those that had £20 per annum of land or rent or more, in the county of
Cornwall, 25 Edward I. John de Tinten held one fee Mort. [of the
honour of Morton] in Tynten, and in Trewinneck, 3 Henry IV. (ibid fol.
42 b.)
THE EDITOR.
The church of this parish is adorned with several splendid monuments,
one to Mr. Anthony Nicoll, who distinguished himself in the Civil War,
and another representing a mother and three daughters kneeling, with
various arms emblazoned over them, Reskymer, Courtenay, Mohun,
Trelawny, &c.
St. Editha, the patroness of this church, as Mr. Hals conjectures on
the assumed authority of Domesday Book, must have acquired a high
degree of sanctity at a very early period of life, having died in her
twenty-fourth year, after passing her time from childhood in the
convent at Wilton, of which her mother was abbess; and, therefore, as
it is observed in the Roman Martyrology, “She may be said rather not
to have known the world than to have left it;” but she fasted, wore
hair-cloth next her skin, and chose to perform every office that was
most disgusting or loathsome. In recompense, her beatitude was
attested, according to William of Malmesbury, in a most decisive
manner; who says, that while Canute celebrated the festival of
Whitsuntide at Wilton, he spoke with ridicule of St. Editha, adding,
that he never could believe the daughter of King Edgar could be a
saint, who had always addicted himself to acts of tyranny, and to the
indulgence of bad passions. Ethelnodus, the archbishop, then present,
contradicted the king, and proceeded to open the tomb of the virgin
saint; when, raising herself up so as to sit, she seemed to attack the
contumaceous king; and he, terrified, fell prostrate on the ground,
apparently without life; but recovering, he expressed great joy, that
by a renovation of his existence he found himself in a situation to be
penitent for his fault.
The presentation to this rectory is in the Dean and Canons of Christ
Church. The Rev. Charles Hodgson, late student, presented in 1817, is
the present incumbent.
The whole parish appears to be well cultivated, notwithstanding that
it adjoins the granite district of St. Breward or Simonward, and it is
agreeably diversified by hill and dale.
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