268 NOTES ON THE CHURCH OF ST. IVES. 



on the intention of liis said ordinance, the chaplain of tlie said 

 chapel of St. Ives (to he maintained at the cost of the 

 parishioners of the said chapel) might celehrate the Divine offices 

 in the said chapel at the expense of the parishioners thereof and 

 might administer the sacraments and sacramental rites belonging- 

 to such parish to the parishioners of the said chapel, in health 

 and in sickness, as well without the said chapel as within, and 

 might say and celebrate and officiate at the Divine offices within 

 the said chapel and without it, for the quick or the dead, and 

 discharge all other the lawful and customary duties of a parish 

 priest. Provided always that within the said chapel and 

 without the same, the vicar of the parish church of St. Eiminus 

 for the time being should at his free will be at liberty', personally 

 or by another, to discharge the said duties towards the 

 pai'ishioners of the said chapel. As to the mortuaries declared 

 to be clue to the vicar of the parish church, and illegally withheld 

 from him, the offenders are to be warned in the said chapel, or 

 in the parish church, on some feast day, to make restitution to 

 the vicar within fifteen days, under pain of the greater excom- 

 munication. 



Then follows the appointment of Peter Pencors as proctor 

 for the parishioners of tlie chapel having cure of souls and for 

 the whole parish commonly called St. Ives. It is a very full 

 authority, but its contents are of no especial interest except to a 

 lawyer. It is certified by the seal of the official of the peculiar 

 jurisdiction and dated at Penryn on the 18th of March, 1432. 



Much of the history of St. Ives can only be conveniently 

 told in connection with that of the mother church of Lelant. I 

 ignore accordingly the appropriations to Tywardreath and 

 Crediton, the dealings with the rectory at the time of the 

 the Reformation, its leases, &c., and onlv note what is iiecaliar 

 to St. Ives. 



Matthews, in his History of St. Ives, says: "When the 

 present church was built, early in the fifteenth century, the relics 

 of the patron saint were translated to a beautiful Shrine in the 

 chancel, but at the Eeformation this was destroyed, and Saint 

 la's remains scattered to the four winds. The chapel of Saint la 

 was, it appears, altered or added to long after its erection, for it 

 is known to have possessed Norman architectural features." If 



