408 S. MYLOR AND MABE CHTTECHES. 



St. Melyan, and that gradually the patronage of St. Mylor got 

 transferred to the present church of that name, which the 

 supporters of this story gratuitously assume to have been 

 previously dedicated to his father. St. Melyan. None, as far as 

 I am aware, offer the slightest evidence in support of this dedica- 

 tion, or of St. Mylor ever having been known by the fanciful 

 name of the " Holy Son." Possibly it means no more than that 

 this is a daughter church to Mylor. 



From Bishop Stapeldon's Register we learn that on the 9th 

 of March, 1309, he ordained several youths to First Tonsure. 

 It is unlikely that the Bishop would have held an ordination at 

 so remote and small a parish unless something more important 

 had taken him there, and what that was we learn from a 

 document of Bishop Stapledon's time copied on a blank page at 

 the end of Bishop Brantyngham's Register. It is headed 

 " Respecting the Chapel of St. Laud, near Penryn, in Cornwall." 

 It proceeds to recite the appointment by deed dated at Penryn 

 on the 8th of March, 1309, and sealed with the seal of the Peculiar 

 of Penryn, of Walter de Carnduyou, as Proctor of John de 

 Trenewytha, Greoft'ry de Anter, Nicholas de Tremoghe, and the 

 other parishioners of the chapehy of St. Laud, which was 

 dependent on the parish church of St. Melor, and had been so 

 time out of mind, to negociate on their behalf for the dedication 

 of their chapel and its cemetery. It then recites that Walter de 

 Carnduyou had attended in his capacity of Proctor before the 

 Bishop when conducting a visitation in the county, and had 

 humbly prayed that he would deign to consecrate their chapel 

 and cemetery, assigning many reasons why such a course was 

 proper. Carnduyou pointed out that the chapel was four miles 

 from the parish church, and that many dangers threatened and 

 occurred to those who carried bodies thither to be buried, as well 

 from the foundrous condition of the roads as from the frequent 

 floods. The Bishop having asked the Provost of Grlasney, the rector 

 of St. Melor, if he saw any valid objection to the course proposed, 

 was advised that it might be properly carried through, provided 

 the subjection of the Chapelry to St. Melor was not interfered 

 with. Which subjection was to be acknowledged by the yearly 

 payment of 12d. to St. Melor on the feast day of its patron saint, 

 and for which payment twelve responsible men of the Chapelry 



