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Tregetlies, .John Guvan, and other pavisliioncn's of the cliapoh-ies 

 of St. Teweiinoc the Confessor [//of/ic TcjwednackJ and 8t. Ya 

 the Virgin, complained that tliey lived for the most part, four, 

 three, or at least two miles from the parochial and mother clnireh 

 of Lelant, the roads heing mountainous and rocky, and liahle, in 

 winter, to sudden inundations, so that they could not with safety 

 attend Divine Service, or send their children to be baptised, tlieir 

 wives to be purihed, or their dead to he buried ; the children 

 often went unhaptised, and the sick were deprived of the last 

 sacraments. They stated that they had btiilt these two chapels 

 at their own ex^tense, ami enclosed suitable cemeteries, intending 

 to sufficiently endow them for two priests to serve ther(>in, and 

 they prayed the bishoj) to consecrate the same, who accordingly 

 commissioned Richard Hals, treasurer, and John Groi'ewyll, canon 

 of Exeter, to meet all the parties, including the petitioners on 

 the one hand, and John Clerk, the vicar of Lelant, and the 

 parishioners of that parish, on the other, and to in({uire and 

 report on the question of the consecration of these two dependent 

 chapels. 



It is clear that in those days a matter of this kind w as not 

 hurried over without careful iutpiiry and apparently a good deal 

 of "red tape." On the 8th of September, 1411, we hud two of 

 the petitioning parishioners, Peter Pencors and John Guvan, 

 attending at the bishop's palace at Exeter, and presenting him 

 with two bulls of Pope Alexander V (ob. 1410), dated the 

 28th of October, 1409, and of Pope John XXIII, dated the 

 18th of November, 1410. 



These bvdls (which are set out in full in Bishop Stafford's 

 Register) authorised the dedication of the dependent chapels of 

 St. Tewimioc and St. Ya, and the erection of fonts, and the 

 celebration of mass, &c., therein, if the bishop of Exeter, after 

 due inquiry, should find the facts to be as stated in the jietition, 

 saving, nevertheless, the rights of the said church of Lelant and 

 of all persons interested ; and the petitionei-s inayed and even 

 insisted that full effect might be given to them, urging again the 

 inconvenience already set out. They desired that fonts shoidd 

 be jdaced in these chapels and the sacranu-nt administered 

 therein, and that the cemeteries should be licensed for interments. 

 The bishop ordered tliat inquiries should be made, and that if 



