200 THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL. 



One thing at least is certain. — The evidence of the Manumis- 

 sions sets decisively at rest the disputed question as to the 

 situation of the ancient Petrockstow. No doubt remains that the 

 Minster, the Altar, and the Clerks of S. Petrock, as well as the 

 Shrine and Eelics of the Saint, were located at Bodmin,* and not 

 at Padstow as some have maintained. It is indeed surprising that 

 Padstow should ever be thought to have been the ancient Petrock- 

 stow. Padstow does not appear to have had any existence at the 

 early period to which we refer. In Domesday Book we have a 

 description of the lands of the Priory of S. Petrock at Bodmin, 

 but no mention of Padstow under that or any other name. It 

 was then simply a dependency of the Manor of Bodmin,t just as 

 Penmayne in S. Minver was of the Duchy Manor of Helston in 

 Trigg. The Prior and Canons of S. Petrock had probably a 

 Chapel at Padstow, which afterwards became parochial, and 

 was known by the name of Aldestoiv. It occurs under this 

 name in the Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV (1291), | in "Placita 

 Quo Warranto " 30 Edward I (1302), || and again in the " Ordinacio 

 Prioratus Bodmine," dated 20 April, 1347. § The earliest mention 

 of the place by the name of Petrockstow or Padstow which we 

 have met with, is in an Inquisition concerning S. Petrock' s Priory 

 at Bodmin, taken at Lostwithiel, 18 March, 1349, before John 

 Dabernoun, keeper of the fees of Edward, Prince of Wales, by 

 virtue of a writ addressed by the Prince to the said keeper. The 

 jury found, among other things, that the Prior of Bodmin and his 

 Convent held " the whole of the Manor of Eealton,ir and the Baili- 

 wick of the Hundred of Pydreshire, belonging to the same Manor, 

 and the Manors of Pendevy,** Eaunledek,tt and Kels, %% '^^^^'^ the 



* Bodmin Manumissions, passim. 



f In the M imimission, No. 27, we meet with the name of .ffiUsige 

 Port-reeve, at Bodmin. 



J Oliver's Monasticon, p. 462. 



|] Oliver's Monasticon, p. 412, No. iv. 



§ Oliver's Monasticon, p. 19. 



1[ Eialton in S. Cohimb Minor. 



** Peudavy in Egloshayle. 



ft Possibly the Lauwenehoc of Domesday Book. Query, S. Enodock? 



1 1 Probably Callestock in Perranzabuloe. 



