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ceeded Leofric to Devonshire and Cornwall, and Bishop Aldred to 



Worcester." 



These extracts serve to show that the See of Cornwall was not 

 extinguished by its union with that of Crediton, and therefore 

 that Lyving and Leofric are properly included in the list of Cornish 

 Prelates. 



We think it unnecessary to quote the numerous Charters signed 

 by Bishop Lyving from the year 1032 to 1046. 



Leofric, nominated by King Edward the Confessor in 1046 

 to succeed Lyving in the Bishopric of the Church of Crediton and 

 of the province of Cornwall,* was by birth a Breton, and had 

 previously acquired the reputation of a great and learned man 

 among the people of Lorraine.t At the time of his elevation to 

 the Episcopate he was High Chancellor, and Chaplain to the Kmg. J 

 In the Bodleian Manuscript he is described as " a venerable man, 

 of modest life and conversation, who, having received the honour 

 of the Pontificate, going about his Diocese, diligently preached the 

 word of God to the people committed to him, instructed the 

 Clergy in doctrine, built not a few Churches, and vigorously ad- 

 ministered the other duties of his office." || 



His name is appended to numerous Charters. 



The removal of the united Sees of Crediton and Cornwall to 

 Exeter was effected by King Edward during his Episcopate in 

 1050, and thus Leofric became the first Bishop of Exeter. § 



Such is the evidence we have been able to collect respecting 

 the names of the Bishops who held the spiritual government of 



*"Dedit Episcopatmn Cridionensis Ecclesiffi, atque Comubiensis pro- 

 vinciae, capellano suo Leofrico." — Bodleian MS., 579. 



•f- William of Malmesbury. 



+ Bodleian MS., 579. Saxon Chronicle. Florence of Worcester. Mat- 

 thew of Westminster. Eoger de Hoveden. Eoger of Wendover. 



II " Leofrico, vita moribusque modesto ; qui vir venerabilis, accepto 

 Pontificatus bonore, diocesim snam perlustrans, populo sibi commisso Yerbum 

 Dei studiose prffidicabat, clericos doctrina informabat, ecclesias non iDaucas 

 eonstruebat, et cetera quae officii sui erant strenue administrabat." — Bodleian 

 MS., 579. 



S Bodleian MS., 579. William of Malmesbury. 



