402 S. MYLOR AND MABE CHtmCHES. 



who, after legal warning, had removed, and still were removing, 

 some of the actual soil of the sanctuary of St. Milor Church, 

 thereby diminishing the said sanctuary and doing wrong and 

 injury to the right and liberty of the said church. We suspect 

 that this was part of the dispute between the Bishop and 

 Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, concerning their respective rights in 

 the foreshore. On the 12th November, 1278, the Bishop, being 

 himself in failing health, appointed Sir Ralph de Hengham and 

 John [de Pontisara], Archdeacon of Exeter, his proctors in all 

 causes between himself and the Earl The appointment is 

 followed in the Register by a long document in Norman-Ereneh, 

 dated the same day. This recites that disputes and dissensions 

 having arisen between the noble lord, Sir Edmund, Earl of 

 Cornwall, and Sir Walter, by the grace of God, Bishop of Exeter, 

 the same had been arranged by, mutual friends. The Bishop 

 was to account for the amounts exacted from the people of 

 Cornwall against their will, or by the Bishop's distress, and to 

 undertake not to enforce such obliga'';ions in the future, and to 

 release all oaths obtained by force, and it was ordered that 

 William de Moneketone* be assoiled in form of Holy Chui'ch, 

 and that the Bishop give him a full release out of deference to 

 the Earl ; and, if any others had been excommunicated, or so 

 denounced, for any temporal cause, they were to be assoiled in 

 like form. And as to the sands of St. Milor, it was provided 

 that three knights, men of experience, on behalf of the Earl, and 

 a like number on behalf of the Bishop, should visit the place, 

 and on their oaths lay down the limits between that which 

 appertained to the church of St. Milor, and that which was 

 common to all ; so that none should thenceforth take of the one 

 without due payment made to the Parson, and the remainder 

 should be common. If the Bishop had taken excessive ransoms, 

 fines, or reprises, from the people of Cornwall, he should return 

 them to those from whom he had taken them, the amount to be 

 settled by one clerk on behalf of the Earl, and another on behalf 

 of the Bishop. If these referees could not agree, they were to 



* He was Senesch.al of Cornwall, and a very troublesome fellow. There are 

 several complaints against him in the Registers. In July, 1282, for instance, 

 the Archbishop wrote to the Earl, compl.aining of his conduct, and that he 

 should proceed against him in spite of the success with which he had so far 

 escaped punishment by taking shelter behind his employer (Peckham, fol. 186 b). 



