NOTES ON THE CHURCH OF ST. IVES. 269 



this is time, it is interesting', l)nt nnfortnnatcly Mr. INIattliews 

 gives no aiitliority for his statement, and we have failed to find 

 any. During several years of tlie Commonwealth one Leonard 

 Welsteed^' resided in the town, and served as minister, and on 

 the 1st of Febrnary, IG.jo, married Grace, one of the daugliters 

 of John Trewynnard, gentleman, by whom he had children, 

 whose names appear in the parish register. His name ap- 

 pears several times in the borough accounts, as for example, 

 under date 1649, "Pd Mr. Welsteed for Medsummer an. gr. 

 1649, £3 10s. Od." ; " Pd Mr. Welsteed for a sermon All Saints 

 day, 10s.";'*' and in 1652 " Payd Mr. Leonard Wellsteed, 

 Minister, £l and is for the interest of a sum of monie given as a 

 Legacy by Mrs. Chestian Hext unto the Minister of the parish to 

 be payd for ever for him in full being due at Candlemas last 

 £1 Os. Od." 1'' 



The registers commence in 1651. Few parishes have more 

 interesting records than those contained in the St. Ives registers, 

 churchwarden's accounts, and borough accounts -". Very full 

 extracts have been printed from them by Mr. J. H. Matthews in 

 his "History of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack, and Zennor" 



17 Matthews (St. Ives, &c., p. 2ii states that Welsteed was ejected from his 

 living in 1648 for non-confonnity, but does not state where the living was from which 

 he was so ejected. 



18 Note a sermon on this daj- in the middle of the Rebellion. The Puritans 

 did not, as is often supposed, altogether discontinue the ancient names of the feast 

 days. Thus is a deed of 16=6, drawn up by the Commissioners of Cornwall for the 

 saleof the royal manors " Ascension-day ■• is so named (Revd. .S. Rundle in Journal 

 Penzance Nat. Hist. .Socy., vol. 2, p. 345.) 



ig The name Hext, which is frequent in the early records of St. Ives, disappears 

 after the Commonwealth. The payment was refu.sed by the mayor and corporation 

 from the year 1869 to 1S79 inclusive, when the late vicar, revd. J. B. Jones, made his 

 claim in the Penzance County Court, and on 11 August, 1880, the judge. Mr. 

 .Montague Bere, Q.C., stated " This is really an undefended ca.se, and to my mind it 

 is not the most creditable thing for a body of public men to resist an honest demand 

 of this description. I give judgment for 6 years " isince the statute of limitations was 

 pleaded) " ^0 with full costs." Leave to appeal was refused, and one month allowed 

 for payment. This toolish action on the part of the authorities cost the ratepayers 

 a considerable sum of money. The terrier of 1746 shows us that the surplice fees 

 payable to the vicar of Lelant from St. Ives were the same as from the mother parish 

 except that there was in addition " for a mortuary ten shillings due for every person 

 who dies worth ^10 or upwards And £1 per ann. for ever paid to the vicar by the 

 niaj'or of the said borough for the time being for a sermon to be preached j-early on 

 the day of his election, it lieing the gift of one Mrs. Cheston Hicks." This, ofcour.se, 

 must be the same person. We note that the terrier is signed by (inter alios) " Wm. 

 Symonds, mayor and vicar.'' 



20 Hereafter occasionally referred to as R.. C.A., and B.A. respectively. 



