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to preach, and to perforin whatever else belongs to the cure of 

 souls, in order that they may not be necessarily involved in sectJar 

 business ; but that, as they labour in the church, they may live 

 by the church, as the Lord saith, " The labourer is worthy of his 

 hire." But why do you usurp these things, while it is not your 

 place to do any of the things which we have mentioned ? and 

 while you do not perform the labour, why do you take the wages 

 thereof?" This, however, is not the place to discuss the question, 

 on which much could be said on both sides. The system certainly 

 lessened the usefulness of the church in the parishes, but, on the 

 other hand, was of service in keeping on foot institutions with- 

 out which (humanly speaking) the world must in the centuries 

 from the 9th to the 12th have sunk into utter barbarism. We 

 must accept the fact that appropriations were frequent, and that 

 amongst others was that of St. Just to the great College of 

 Grlasney at Penryn. I cannot stay now to trace the history of 

 that awful pestilence, known as the Black Plague, which, in the 

 14th century, swept away half our population. I merely name 

 it as an introduction to the deed of appropriation of St. Just. On 

 the 15th of April, 1355, Bp. Grrandisson, with the consent of his 

 Chapter, appropriated to the College of Grlasney the church of St. 

 Just, which had been given to him for the purpose by Sir John de 

 Beaupre, Knight, who had been moved thereto by finding that 

 the Vicars of Grlasney were not receiving enough of their 

 accustomed stipends to afford them a sufficient livelihood (victum 

 congruum), owing to the recent pestilence, the change in the 

 times, and the growing malice of men, and, therefore, desired to 

 increase their stipends and to augment their number. The 

 College was to enter into possession of the same (reserving a 

 sufiicient portion for the Vicar) after the cession or death of the 

 then rector, Sir Reginald of St. Austle. Two priests, on the 

 nomination of Sir John de Beaupre, were to be received into the 

 Collegiate church over and above the accustomed number, who 

 were to be known as " Beaupre' s Priests." They were to cele- 

 brate Masses for the well-being of Sir John and Margaret, his 

 wife, during life, and after their death for their souls and those 

 of their relatives, ancestors, and heirs for ever, receiving yearly 

 of the fruits of St. Just, divided equally between them, the sum 

 of £8 13s. 4d. sterling. These priests were to take the customary 



