S. MYLOE AOT) MABE CHURCHES. 401 



The earliest rector of tliis parish of whom we have know- 

 ledge was Walter Manclerc, who was collated in the reign of 

 King John.*' The next whom we have come across is Thomas 

 de Wyndesore, clerk, who on the 22nd of June, 1258, resigned 

 all his right to the rectory, the Bishop on the same day collating 

 Sir Walter de Fermesham {i.e. of Felmersham in Bedfordshire), 

 charging him with the payment of twenty marks a year to 

 Master John de Agnavia, who was, of course, a former rector. 

 At the same time a letter was addressed by the Bishop to 

 Wyndesore, authorising liim to receive ten marks a year fi'om 

 the Episcopal treasury, until he, or some suitable nominee of his, 

 should be provided for in a competent benefice. This was an 

 instance of the custom which bound every Bishop on entering on 

 the emoluments of his see "ratione novse creationis " to allow a 

 fitting pension to any clerk recommended by the crown until he 

 had provided a suitable benefice for him. Bronescombe had 

 just entered on the emoluments of the see of Exeter. 



In the early part of 1277 (the MSS. is undated, but is 

 entered between 10th March and 21st April in that year). Bishop 

 Bronescombe addressed a mandate to the Archdeacon of Exeter 

 to the effect that all clergy, collegiate and parochial, should 

 publish in manner therein provided a list of the offences which 

 subjected those guilty of them to excommunication, because he 

 had found that many persons, in sheer ignorance of what was 

 written on the subject, especially the Statutes of the Canons and 

 the Traditions of the Holy Fathers, fell under sentence of 

 excommunication. On the 14th of August in the same year, the 

 Bishop addressed a letter from Glasney to his four archdeacons, 

 in which he first quotes the substances of this mandate, and 

 concludes "Wherefore you shall denounce as being ipso facto 

 fallen under the said sentence of excommunication William de 

 Tavistoke, Thomas Noel, Osbert Marck, Noel de Trevilla,f 

 Peter de Marscalle, John de Sicca Yilla,| and John le Portel, 



* This appears from the list of documents in the Exeter Treasury, which 

 includes ■' Carta Johannis Reg:is de Collacione Ecclesie Sancti Melori Waltero 

 Manclerc" (Reg. Bronescombe, fo. 134 ; Edn. Hingeston Randolph, p. 290). 



t In 1264 one of the patrons of St. Feock (Reg. Bronescombe, 31. 



X At different times this John Sachville held prebends in Glasney, Crediton 

 and St. Orantock. 



