406 S. MYLOU AND MABE CHUKCHES. 



cliurch whose doctines he did not hold, earned him the reputation 

 of a martyr, and, as such, worthy of a biography, Avhich was 

 accordingly written by one Theophilus Gale, and published in 

 London in the year of his death.** Wesley refers to him in his 

 Jcfarnal under date 4th September, 1775 : " The people in general 

 here {i.e. at St. Ives), excepting the rich, seem almost persuaded 

 to be Christians. Perhaps the prayer of their old pastor, Mr. 

 Tregoss, is answered even to the fourth generation." 



Mylor was one of the Bishop's Peculiars, which, with all 

 other exempt jurisdictions in the Diocese of Exeter, were 

 abolished by order in Council of the 22nd of February, 1848. 



Of the chapels in this parish we have not discovered 

 as much as we expected. In 1412 (18th Feb.) "William Bodrugan 

 and Joan his wife were granted a licence for an oratory in their 

 manor of Eestranget (hodie Pestronguet). There is still a field 

 on the estate measuring about half an acre, known as the 

 Chapel field, and on which graves have been found, suggesting 

 that this was a chapel of sufficient importance to have its 

 cemetery. It is tithe free. Some of the popular histories refer 

 to this burial ground as having belonged to a religious house 

 and as having been in some way connected with a chaj^el in 

 Feock. This apparently has no foundation in fact ; certainly 

 there was not a religious house here at any time. 



There is still a private chapel in the mansion of Carclew, 

 and we have little doubt that there was one there from very early 

 times ; but we have been unable to trace the licence. According 

 to Hals, Carclew passed in the time of Henry IV. to Richard 

 Bonithon, second son of Simon Bonithon, of Bonithon, by 

 marriage with Isabella D' Angers, one of the co-heiresses of 

 James D' Angers. Just before this time, viz., on the 5th of June, 

 1397, Simon Bonithon and Eurinus his son obtained licence for 

 an oratory, but where is not stated. On the 15th of November, 

 1402, licence was granted to Eurinus Bonithon and Sarah his 

 wife, for all their mansions in the diocese. But we cannot find 

 that either Simon or Eurinus, who were probably the father and 

 brother respectively of Richard Bonithon, ever held Carclew. 



* See Bibliotheca Cornub., p. 759, and the numerous authorities there 

 referred to. 



