206 THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL. 



The Cornish See continued to be at S. Germans until its ex- 

 tinction in 1050. 



That Bishop Burhwold sat there is quite certain. His name 

 occurs once only in the Bodmin Manumissions, and then he seems 

 to have gone thither from Liskeard, accompanied by Duke Ethel- 

 werd, Abbot Germanus, and others."^ It might reasonably be con- 

 cluded that his See was at S. Germans, from the contents of the 

 Charter of Canute, dated 1018, already quoted, by which that 

 King grants to the Bishop the Manors of Landerhtun and Tini- 

 eltun, of which the former was to pass to S. Germans after 

 Burhwold's decease.t But the Inquisition of the 32nd year of 

 Edward III, (1.358), puts the matter beyond a doubt. 



The following is a translation of the words of this Inquisi- 

 tion : — 



"A certain King of England, Knout by name, gave to God 

 and the Church of Saint Germans, and to those there serving 

 God, lands and tenements, in the writ of our same ancestor con- 

 tained ; and then the Episcopal See of Cornwall was at that place, 

 and a Bishop by name Brithwold, and secular Canons. 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. To which Lyving 

 succeeded Leofric, who obtained those two Bishoprics so united, 

 until the time of the blessed Edward, King and Confessor. Which 

 Edward, by the direction and with the assent of Pope Leo, trans- 

 ferred the See of Crediton to the City of Exeter ; and afterwards 

 the same Bishop Leofric founded at Saint Germans a Priory of 

 regular Canons, the secular Canons being removed. And that so 



Provincia Cornubiffi, ut libera sit, eique subjecta omnibusque posteris ejus, 

 ut ipse gubernet atque regat suam Parocbiam sicuti alii Episcopi qui sunt 

 in mea ditione, locusque atque regivien Sancti Petroci semper in potestate 

 ejus sit successorumque illius. Itaque omnium Eegalium tributorum libera 

 sit, atque laxata yi exactorum operum, pcenaliumque causarum, necnon et 

 furum comprebensione, cunctaque sfficuli gravedine, absque sola expeditione, 

 atque libera perpetualiter permaneat." — Kemble, Cod. Dip., No. 686. " Locus 

 S. Petroci " is a literal translation of the Saxon Petrockstow, that is, Bod- 

 min. 



* Bodmin Manumissions, No. 20. 



t Kemble, Cod. Dip., No. 728, 



