230 ST. Michael's mount. 



From the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV (1288-1291) we 

 extract the following : — 



(Taxacio) 

 Montis Ecclesia de Moreke vj. li Decima xij' 



Michaelis Vicaria ejusdem xiij'iiij'' 



* iC' * * * * ■» a- % *- * *- * *- *- 



Ecclesia Sancti Hillarii 



Ixxiij'iiij^ Decima vij^iiij"^ 

 Vicaria ejusdem xxvj° viij* 

 Ecclesia de Udnow parva xxx' 



Prior Sancti Michaelis percipit in Ecclesia in 

 oblacionihns et obvencionibus vi" xii^ iiii** Decima 

 xiii^ iiii*^ 

 Temporalitas Cornubie 



Prior Montis Sancti) Aput Marchadiou iiii'' xiiii" ii^ 

 Michaelis habet ) Manerium de Trewerabo (s.o.) 



vij"vVi'^ 

 Summa xi^xix^riij*^ Decima xxiij'xi^ob 

 What the letters " s.o." in the above taxation mean has not 

 (I believe) been explained. 



The first independent prior of the Mount seems to have 

 been Ralph de Carteret, who was instituted 21st December, 1266, 

 the patron being the abbat of the Norman monastery. From 

 this time the Cornish priory seems to have ceased to be a mere 

 cell. It probably now adopted a seal of its own, though, so far, 

 none such has been discovered. 



On the 11th of April, 1276, Fr. Eichard Perer, Monk of St. 

 Michael "in periculo maris", was collated to the Cornish priory 

 by lapse. Apparently the bishop bore no jealousy toward the 

 foreign house. 



On the 8th of July, 1283, Gaufridus de G-ernon, alias Forum, 

 was instituted as Prior. During his priorship he, with the assent 

 of three of his fellow monks, granted land in Tremenhir Wollas to 

 Michael de Tremenhir Wollas. After thirty three years govern- 

 ment he resigned and was succeeded by Peter de Cara Villa, who 

 further dissipated the Priory property. In 1336, Bishop 

 Grrandisson appointed Richard de Wydeslade, the Treasurer of 

 Exeter Cathedral, to inquire into the truth of some unpleasant 



