THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL. 195 



Originally a monk of S. Swithin's Monastery at Winchester, he 

 became the second Abbot of Tavistock. His benefactions and 

 services to that Abbey entitle him to the name of its second 

 founder.* "Per Ordgarum surgendi exordium; per Livingum 

 Episcopum crescendi accepit auspicium." t Lyving was distinguished 

 for his eloquence, tact, and judgement. King Caimte held him in 

 the highest esteem and friendship. He accompanied that Sovereign 

 to Rome, and was the bearer of the royal dispatch to England, 

 announcing the result of his peregrination. J In 1032 Canute ad- 

 vanced him to the See of Crediton; and he further authorized 

 him to join to it the See of Cornwall on the decease of his uncle, 

 Bishop Burhwold. || 



The Inquisition of the 32nd year of King Edward III, already 

 quoted, thus mentions the union of the Sees : — 



"At length, in the reign of the aforesaid King Knout, one 

 Lyving, Bishop of Crediton, obtained the Bishopric of Cornwall 

 after the death of the aforesaid Brithwold, who was the last 

 Bishop of Cornwall, to be united with the Bishopric of Crediton." § 



Burhwold appears to have survived until the time of King 

 Edward the Confessor ; but he must have died so early in that 

 reign, that we have little hesitation in assigning 1042 as the prob- 

 able date of his decease, and of the union of the Sees of Cornwall 

 and Crediton under Lyving. That Burhwold survived until King 

 Edward's reign is evident from the wording of a Charter of King 

 Henry I, confirming to the Abbey of Tavistock, and to Turold, 

 one of the monks of Scilly^ (probably Prior of S. Nicholas), all 

 the Churches and land of Scilly as they had held them " in the 



• Oliver^s Monasticon, p. 90. 

 •}■ William of Malmesbury. 



I Lingard's History of England. 



II " Livingus, ex monacho Wintoniensi, Abbas Tavistokensis, et Episcopus 

 Cridiensis, maximae familiaritatis et potentias apud Cnutonem Eegem habitus 

 est. — Eo apud eum gratise processit, ut defuncto avunculo suo Brithwoldo, 

 qui erat Cornubiensis Episcopus, ambos arbitratu suo uniret episcopatus." — 

 William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontijicum, lib. 2. 



§ The Inquisition is given at length in the second part of this Paper. 



