THE PEIOES OF TYWAEDRETH. 315 



The four earliest priors of whom anything is known, stand 

 thus in order : — Priors of Tywardreth. 



Anterior to Feb. 14, 1154, Osbert or Osbern. 



1169, Baldwin. 



1170, Andrew. 



1171, Osbert (II). 



Hamelin, whose obit, was kept April 1, appears to have been 

 the 5th prior. "At the request of Robert Cardinham he fixed 

 a weekly mass on Saturday, for his departed lady, ysahella. This 

 Eobert granted a rental of 10/- charged on the manor-mill of 

 Botugi, to the priory." This Eobert de Cardinan was alive in 

 1216, and was the father of Andrew de Cardinan, who was living 

 in 1251, and of Eobert de Cardinan, younger son, whose widow 

 Emma was living in 1234. He was also the holder of two 

 Baronies in Cornwall, viz. — Cardinan and Botardel, consisting 

 of 71 knight's fees, and signed Peverel's charter, as witness, next 

 to Hugh Bardolph who heads the list. 



Between Osbert (II) and Hamelin, oocur the names of 

 Theobald, James, and Eoger, but, except that Theobald 

 granted several privileges to Fowey, nothing is known of the 

 other two except the days on which their obits were kept, and if 

 these be admitted in the list, Hamelin must be considered the 

 eighth in succession, of whom we have any record, and he may 

 have been the last prior of the twelfth and the first of the 

 thirteenth century. 



I will now proceed with the indentification of some of the 

 remaining witnesses, and endeavour to arrive at a fair approxi- 

 mation to the date indicated by the order of succession of the 

 priors. 



" By a charter, without date, but which must be very early 

 Osbert, Prior of Tywardreth, we believe the first of that name, 

 who ruled the Priory about the middle of the 12th century, with 

 the favour and council of the Lord Eobert Fitz-William, granted 

 to Baldwin de Pidias (Pridias) one Knight's fee in the manor of 

 Pidias, to hold to him and his heirs, except an acre of land in 

 Carnubel banathel, for which the monks of Tywardreth rendered 

 annually to the said Baldwin, 20*^- for aU customs, &c. , as written 



