S. MYLOR Al^m MABE CHURCHES. 407 



There is said to have been a chapel at Trefusis in what is 

 known as Kersey Field, hut we can find no trace of it except in 

 tradition. The presumption is, of course, strong for the existence 

 of a chapel in such an important manor. As already mentioned, 

 the bell in the parish church is stated to have come from here. 



The church of St. Peter at Mushing with nave, apse, north 

 porch, and small western turret, all in imitation of Norman work, 

 was erected in 1841, opened on the 2nd of February in the 

 following year, and consecrated in the ensuing August. Flushing 

 was constituted a separate district in July, 1884. Its registers 

 date only from 1873. The Yicar of Mylor for the time being is 

 the patron. 



At Mylor Bridge is a very pretty little Mission Hoom erected 

 in 1892, a former Mission Church having been at the same time 

 converted into a schoolroom. 



But the most interesting and important chapel connected 

 with Mylor is the present church of Mabe. It was a Parochial 

 Chapelry dependent on St. Mylor, fi'om which it was only 

 separated in 1868. In the Taxacio of Pope Nicholas IV. we 

 find "The Church of Saint Milor with its sanctuary," taxed at 

 £6 13s. 4d. Apparently there was here, as at St. Buryan, a 

 sanctuary which was not merely the sanctuary commonly so 

 called, namely the portion of the Grlebe on which the church and 

 the rectorial buildings stood. However, Hals read the word 

 Sanctuario as Sacello and tells us that it meant the church or 

 chapel of Mabe. There is, as a matter of fact, no mention of 

 Mabe in the Taxacio at all, though it was no doubt included in 

 the value. The Taxacio, as a rule, did not name the chapelries, 

 but in the Inquisitio Nonarum of 1340, we find the church of St. 

 Mylor and its dependent chapel of St. Laud commissioned 

 together. This dedication is, as far as I am aware, the only one 

 recognised in the earlier records. In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 

 Henry VIII. and other comparatively late documents, it is called 

 Lavape, which word, and that of Mabe, have from the time of 

 Hals to the present been productive of more wild guessing than 

 almost any other, and when all have said their say, we are no 

 nearer a conclusion than before. The most frequent explanation 

 is that the name means the Holy Son, that is St. Mylor, son of 



