264 NOTES ON THE CHURCH Ol-' ST, IVES. 



TliG foUowiug from the cliurcliwardens' accounts gives a 

 list for tlie (lute referred to : " 1776, March 27. Account taken 

 by Hugh Mulfra and deli\'ered him by Mrs. Symons, the church 

 plate belonging to the chuich uf St. Ives as under : One Piatt 

 and Salver. Two large Calless. One large and small cup with 

 covers. Two collecting plates Avith Handlins. Kniff and Fork, one 

 baskett. Deliver'd to Mr. Hicks ^^ by Mulfra." In 1746 (as 

 we learn from the terrier of that year) the Communion plate 

 consisted of " two large silver flagons with the letters engraved 

 on the handle of them G.H., weight of both 119 oz. 10 pwts.; 

 one silver salver with the arms of Sir William Pendarvis, Knt.; 

 and this inscription ' Pendarvis de Pendarvis ecclesiae dedit anno 

 1713,' weight 15 oz. 6 pwts.; one large silver chalice with a 

 cover on the chalice with this inscription, ' the guift of Alles 

 Sise to the church of St. Ives, anno Domini 1641,' and on the 

 cover are these letters, St. I., weight of both 24 oz. 17 pwts. ; one 

 small silver Chalice with a cover on which are these letters, I.H S., 

 weight 12 oz. ; one large silver 2:)late with this inscription, 

 H.'K.K., 1675, weight 12 oz. 7 pwt. Two silver basons for 

 collecting alms at the Commtmion, weight of both 18 oz. 11 pwts. ; 

 one silver hafted knife, for cutting the Sacrament bread." 



The terrier of 1746 tells us that there was in the church 

 "one Book of Bishop Jewells works fol. with a desk for it to 

 stand on." 



The early church history of St. Ives is very obscure, as 

 might be expected ■ from the fact of its having been merely a 

 chapelry dependent on St. Uny Lelant. In the Inquisicio 

 Xonarum of 1340 the church of Lanant and chapel of St. Hya are 

 assessed together at £11 6s. 8d. On the 9th of August, 1331, 

 the parishioners of this chapel obtained a licence for the 

 celebration of Divine Service, conditional on the profits of the 

 parish chru'ch of Lelant not suffering. On 3 January, 1384, 

 the chapel was again licensed. On the 3rd of May, 1400, licence 

 was again granted for this chapel of St. Ives (Sancte Ye, 

 Virginis).^^ In 1409, Peter Pencors, William Stabba, James 



14 On the terminals oi the square label of a mullioned window part of the ruins 

 of a fine house still standing in a side street off the Uigey, are the initials, ' G.H.,' 

 probably those of George Hicks, churchwarden in 1636, and no doubt of the same 

 respectable family as Mr. Hicks named in the text. 



15 Regr Stafford i, 39b. 



