134 ST. piran's old church. 



pall for tlie dead is -vrorn. The missal is imperfect and wants 

 binding. The tropar is rubbed and badly bound. Two tempo- 

 ralia and two sanctoralia, whereof one temporale is badly bound, 

 and without boards. An imperfect antiphonary. A worn ordinal. 

 An imperfect capitular and a book of collects. An ivory pyx 

 without a lock. A chrismatory without a lock. A pax-board 

 without a painting Iji.e., of the crucifixion.] A poor paschal 

 candelabrum. No lantern or bueta [doubtless the same as botta, 

 the lamp carried before the priest when he conveyed the eucharist 

 to the dying.] No. small bells for the sick. A font without a 

 lock. No choral cope or reliquary {filateniun.) The glass is 

 missing in the windows of the nave. The parishioners of St. 

 Piran are bound to repair the chancel and to provide the books 

 for matins, and have hitherto received a tenth of the store of 

 the said church, and have discharged their obligation in this 

 respect. Now,however, it is said that through their carelessness 

 the store is mostly wasted. . . . The parishioners continue as before 

 to carr}^ the relics of St. Piran in an unwarrantable manner to 

 various and even distant places." 



To this record, which refers of course to a later edifice 

 (probably on the site of what is generally spoken of as "the 

 second church," and which was partly removed in 1805 to its 

 present position inland),^ Mr. Hingeston-Randolph adds a long 

 and interesting note drawn from the same sources as Mr. 

 MuUer's letter. But these editions of the episcopal registers 

 are naturally not volumes where everyone would look for 

 information of this character. I think there should be a record 

 of the truth about the old church in our journal, and that it 

 should take the form of a print of Mr. Michell's notes, illustra- 

 ted with a copy of his ground plan. 



2. Or, possibly, the ruin to which this paper refers was merely a chapel, perhaps 

 that referred to in the Taxation of the Vicarage, 13th August, 1269, when there was 

 assigned to the vicar the whole altalage of "the mother church and the chapel." 

 The present parish church was dedicated i8th July, 1805. The " second " church 

 continued to be used for burials long after it had been partially destroyed. The last 

 burials there, as far as I have been able to ascertain, were those of Mrs. Ruddiman, 

 d. of Edward Jenkin, a Barnstaple gentleman, who had settled at Keen, who was 

 buried in iSso, and of her brother, James Jenkin, who was buried there in 1835. Mr. 

 13;. Jenkin married a Miss Cottie, one of the family formerly owning lands at Perran, 

 now the property of the Enys family. A tablet to members of the Cottie family is 

 believed to be still on the buried portion of the walls. The so-called " second " 

 church must have succeeded at least another, its date being of the 15th century. 



