196 THE BISHOPRIC OP CORNWALL, 



time of Ki7ig Edward and Burgald Bishop of Cornwall." * Again, 

 Florence of Worcester tells us of Bishop Lyving, that " on the 

 death of Brithwald his uncle, he united, hy permission of King Ed- 

 ward, the presidency of Cornwall to the Episcopate of Devon." + 

 Hence it appears, that the design of Canute for uniting the Sees 

 of Cornwall and Devon did not take effect until the time of King 

 Edward, though probably at the very beginning of his reign. 



In 1038 Lyving had been appointed by King Harold to the 

 Bishopric of Worcester ; and he continued to hold the three Sees 

 of Crediton, Cornwall, and Worcester, until his death on Sunday, 

 23 March, 1046. He was buried at Tavistock. % 



His death is thus noticed by Florence of Worcester : — 



" 1046. Clement, 143rd Pope. Lyving, Bishop of Worcester, 

 Devon, and Cornwall, died on Sunday, the 10th before the Kal- 

 ends of April. After whose decease the Bishopric of Crediton 

 and Cornwall was presently given to the King's Chancellor, Leofric 

 a Breton ; and Aldred, who was first a monk of Winchester, and 

 then Abbot of Tavistock, undertook the Pontificate of Worcester." || 



To the same effect write Matthew of Westminster, § Roger de 

 Hoveden, ^ and Eoger of Wendover. 



The Saxon Chronicle gives the date of 1047, and adds : — 



" In this year died» Lyving, the eloquent Bishop, on the tenth 

 before the Kalends of April : and he had three Bishoprics, one in 

 Devonshire, one in Cornwall, and one in Worcester. Then suc- 



* " Tempore Eegis Edwardi et Biirgaldi Episcopi Cornegallias." — Carta 

 Eegis Henrici de Insulis de SiiUya, printed in Oliver's Monastlcon, p. 73. 



f " Hie defuncto Brihtwaldo suo avunculo, Cornubiensem prffisulatum, 

 Bege Edwardo permitteute, Domnaniensi coadunavit episcopatui." — Florence 

 of Worcester, Appendix. 



\ William of Malmesbury, Be Gest. Pont. 



II " MXLVI. Clemens Papa CXLIII. Li^dngiis, Wicciornm, Domnaniaa, 

 et Cornubiae Prsesul, decimo Kal. Aprilis die Dominica obiit. Cujus post de- 

 cessum Eegis Cancellario Leofrico, Britonico, mox Cridiatuneusis et Cornubi- 

 ensis datus est prsesulatus ; et Aldredus, qui primo monachus Wintoniensis, 

 post Abbas Tavistokensis extitit, Wicciornm pontificatum accepit." — Florence 

 of Worcester''s Chronicle, lib. v, 29. 



§ Chronicles, lib. v, 33. 



1[ Annals, lib. v, 1. 



