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NOTE ON THE DEDICATION OF LANTEGLOS CHURCH, 

 NEAR rOWEY. 



By E. H. W. DUNKIN, Corresponding Member. 



The dedication of Lanteglos church, near Fowey, appears to 

 have been unknown to Dr. Oliver when he compiled his list of 

 Dedications of Cornish Churches, appended to his Monasticon 

 Dioscesis Exoniensis, pp. 437-443, and Addit. Supplement p. 37. 

 Neither is it mentioned in any History of Cornwall, and I am 

 not aware that Mr. Borlase referred to it in his admirable 

 address delivered before the Institution at their Spring Meeting 

 in 1878. The following brief remarks may therefore have some 

 interest. 



The earliest authority is a contemporary record dated 1284. 

 This is an Assize Roll of the I'ith year of Edw. I., in which are 

 recorded some pleas referring to a messuage and half an acre of 

 land in "Lanteglos in Westweleshyr," given to the church of 

 S. Wylley at Lanteglos fad ecclesiam sancti Wylley de Lanteglos.)'^ 

 The next authority is the will of Lawrence Cok, dated 12 Oct., 

 1502, in which he desires to be buried within the church of 

 S. Willei at Lanteglos {infra ecclesiam sancti Willei de Lanteglos).\ 

 Again John Mohun, who was buried in Lanteglos church, and 

 has a brass there, by his will dated 20 Apr. 1507, made the 

 following bequest — " If lego pro decimis mei oblitis stauro sancti 

 Willei :^-^'-'' X 



According to William of Worcester, who made a journey from 

 Bristol to S. Michael's Mount in 1478, S. Wyllow was a native 

 of Ireland, and was beheaded by Melyn his kinsman, in the 

 parish of Lanteglos, one mile from the town of Fowey, and 

 after his decapitation ran to the place where the church was 

 afterwards founded in his honour. 



All these authorities either shew or imply that the church of 

 Lanteglos is under the tutelage of S. Wyllow. 



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* Assize Roll, Cornwall 1 3, in. 12 dors. 



20 1 

 t P.C.C. 11 Blamyr. 

 JP.C.C. 6 Bennett. 



