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the said Priory, on the foundation and in the patronage of the 

 Bishop of Exeter, hath continued unto the day of the aforesaid 

 inquisition; and the Bishop of Exeter for the time being has 

 the vacations of the aforesaid Priory, when they occur, and has 

 had them from the time whereof memory exists not to the con- 

 trary." * 



We have here a clear statement of the further changes which 

 the Cornish See underwent. The union of the Bishoprics of 

 Cornwall and Crediton took effect, as described, at the death of 

 Burhwold, early in the reign of Edward the Confessor, (about 

 1042), when Lyving became Bishop of both Sees. And it was in 

 the time of his successor Leofric, that the extinction of the Sees 

 of Cornwall and Crediton took place, and the See of Exeter was 

 created in their stead. 



* We append the original of the whole Exemplification, from the Patent 

 EoUs of 7 Eichard 11, (1384). 



"Eex (Eicardus II,) dilectis eibi in Christo, Priori et Canonicis Ecclesie 

 Sancti Germani in Cornubia, salutem. Comperium fuit nuper per quandam 

 Inquisitionem coram Johanne SkyrbeJi, Escaetore Domini Edwardi, nuper 

 Eegis Anglie, avi nostri, anno regni sui tricesimo secundo, de mandato 

 ejusdem avi nostri captam, et in cancellariam suam retornatam, quod — 

 ' quidam Eex Anglie, nomine Knout, dedit Deo, et Ecclesie Sancti Grermani, 

 et ibidem Deo servientibus, terras et tenementa, in brevi ipsius avi nostri 

 contenta, et tunc fuit ibidem sedes episcopalis Cornubie, et Episcopus nomine 

 Brithwoldus, ac Oanonici seculares. Demmn, regnante Knout Eege predicto, 

 quidam Lyvyngus, Episcopus Cryditon, obtinuit Episcopatum Cornubie, post 

 mortem predicti Brithwoldi, qui ultimus fuit Cornubie Episcopiis, uniri cum 

 Episcopatu Cryditon. Cui Lyvyngo successit Leofricus, qui obtinuit illos 

 duos Episcopatus, sic unitos, usaue tempus beati Edwardi Eegis et Confes- 

 soris. Qui quidem Edwardus, de precepto et assensu Pape Leonis, traustulit 

 sedem Cryditon in civitatem Exonie ; et postea idem Leofricus Episcopus 

 fundavit apud Sanctum Germanum Prioratum Canonicorum regularium, 

 Canonicis secularibus ammotis. Et quod sic est dictus Prioratus de funda- 

 tione et patronatu Episcopi Exonie continuatus usque ad diem Inquisitionis 

 predicte ; et Episcopus Exonie, qui pro tempore fuerit, habeat vacaciones 

 Prioratus predicti, cum contigerint, et habuit a tempore eujus contrarii 

 memoria non existit.' — Ac prefatus avus noster, octavo die Octobris, dicto 

 anno regni sui tricesimo secundo, tenorem Inquisitionis predicte, per literas 

 suas patentes exemplificari fecit, et Nos, quinto decimo die Octobris ultimo 

 jam preterite, dictas literas patentes ipsius avi nostri, ad requisicionem 

 venerabilis Patris Thome de Brantyngham, Episcopi Exonie, per literas 

 nostras patentes, duximus exemplificandas, et hoc sub tenore presencium 

 significamus, ut super hiis que jus ipsius Episcopi concemunt, in hac parte 

 melius et evidentius possitis informari, ad effectum quod idem Episcopus, 

 in premissis per vos nuUatenus injurietur. Teste Eege apud Westmonaste- 

 rium, decimo die Novembris anno regni nostri septimo." — OUvefs Monasti- 

 con, p. 4, No. n. 



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