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)
“The will of this Prelate, dated the 10th of December 1471, is
extant among the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin (B. 52), whereby he deviseth his two silver gilded
saltsellers (salsaria) with their covers, to make cups for St.
Patrick’s, to serve in divine offices. He also bequeathed his
pair of organs to the said Church, to be used at the celebration
of divine service in St. Mary’s Chapel. ‘I devise also (says he)
that William Wyse, whose industry for this purpose I choose,
shall in my stead visit with a decent oblation St. Michael’s
Mount in Cornwall, which by vow I am bound to perform either by
myself or proxy;’ and also orders him to give some largesses
towards building the neighbouring churches near where his friends
dwell.
“The registry[22] of the Dominican Abbey in Dublin gives an
account, that above fifty persons went out of the Diocese to Rome
in 1451, to celebrate the jubilee then held under Pope Nicholas
the fifth, and that this prelate gave them recommendatory
certificates to the Pope; that seven of the number were pressed
to death in the crowd, besides what died in their return. This
squares with the relation given by Mathias Palmerius, in his
additions to the Chronicle of Eusebius, ‘That there was so great
a concourse of people from all parts of the Christian world at
this jubilee, that at Hadrian’s Mole almost two hundred perished
in the press, besides many who were drowned in the Tiber.’ They
who returned sate in 1453, brought the melancholy news, that
Constantinople was taken by the Turks, and the Emperor
Constantine Palæologus slain. Our Archbishop was so afflicted at
the account, that he ordered a fast to be kept strictly
throughout his diocese for three days together, and granted
indulgences of an hundred years to the observers of it; and he
himself went before the clergy in procession to Christ Church
cloathed in sackcloth and ashes.”
The works of Tregury are thus noticed by Pits, in his volume “De
illustribus Angliæ Scriptoribus:”
“Multa scripsisse perhibetur, quæ Gallis inter quos vixit vel
Hibernis apud quos obiit, magis quàm Anglis e quibus natus est,
nota esse poterunt. Hos tamen paucos titulos sequentes invenio:
Super Magistro Sententiarum lib. iv.
De Origine illius Studii lib. i.
Quæstiones Ordinarias lib. i.
Contra Henricum Albrincensem lib. i.
Yours, &c. DAVIES GILBERT.
_De Restitutione Temporalium Archiepiscopatus Dublinensis._
[_Rymeri Fœdera, tom. xi. p. 260._]
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