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ON THE UNION OF THE BENEFICES OF BUDOCK AND GLUVIAS. 

 Bx HENRY MARTYN JEFFBRY, P.R.S., Vice-Pkesident. 



Even before 1265 the cliurclies of these two parishes do not 

 appear to have been served by rectors, but since that date, when 

 their great tithes (together with those of Eeock) were appro- 

 priated to Grlasney College, Penryn, by its founder, Walter 

 Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, the incumbents have been 

 vicars. This appropriation is set forth in the ordinatio (or 

 Eoundation-deed) of the Canons of Glasney, March 26, 1267. 



" He (the Bishop) has caused to be built in a competent 

 manner a Collegiate Church, in honour of the holy mother of 

 Grod, and of Saint Thomas, the glorious martyr, in the place 

 called Grlasney, within the parochial limits of the Church of 

 Saint Budock in Cornwall, to which, on account of its slender 

 revenues, he has united the Church of Saint Thomas, of Penren, 

 likewise poorly endowed, to be henceforth dependent and 

 attached; assigning to this Collegiate Church these revenues, 

 and in addition all the fruits and profits of the Church of Saint 

 Eeock — the portions of the vicars serving those several churches 

 being only excepted — for the living and support of clerks for 

 ever ministering there." 



By the Church of Saint Thomas, of Penren, we are to 

 understand Saint Grluvias, as it is expressly stated in the Co^- 

 firmation-deed of Bishop Stapeldon, May 12, 1318. "The 

 Provost and Chapter of the Church of Saint Thomas the Martyr, 

 of Glasney, have held the parish churches and curacies (cures) 

 of Saint Budock, Saint (Thomas) the Martyr, of Penryn,* other- 

 wise called Behed(th)lan, &c." Behethland was another and 

 older name for Grluvias Church, built in Behethland fields. — 

 Lake's History of Cornwall, vol. II., p. 80, after Norden. 



* "Also yntlie towne Penrine ys a chapel, and a quarter of a myle owt of 

 the towne ys the paroch Chyrch." — Lelancls' Itinerary. A chapel stood in the 

 centre of the town, apparently on the site of the present market-house and town- 

 hall. But no ambiguity is caused by this extract in interpreting the text. 



