THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL, 209 



districts, to God and Saint Peter, and to the brethren the Canons 

 there serving ; that they may always have plentiful support for 

 the body, whereby they may be strong as soldiers of Christ with- 

 out any trouble of mind. This, however, I make known to the 

 Lord Pope Leo first of all, and confirm by his own attestation ; 

 then to all the English nobles, that the Diocese of Cornwall, which 

 formerly, in memory of Saint German and in veneration of Saint Pe- 

 trocTc, had been assigned to an Episcopal Throne,* the same, with all 

 the parishes, lands, manors, property, benefices, thereto belonging, 

 I deliver to Saint Peter in the city of Exeter, to wit, that there 

 may be one Episcopal See, and one Pontificate, and one ecclesi- 

 astical rule, on account of the paucity and devastation of goods 

 and people, inasmuch as pirates have been able to devastate the 

 Cornish and Crediton Churches ; and on this account it has seemed 

 good to have a more secure protection against enemies within the 

 city of Exeter, and so there I will the See to he. That is, that 

 Cornwall with it's Churches, and Devon with it's, may be united 

 into one Episcopate, and be ruled by one Bishop. Therefore, this" 

 special grant, I King Edward lay with my own hand upon the 

 Altar of Saint Peter, and the Prelate Leofric by the right arm 

 leading, and my Queen Edith by the left, I place in the Episcopal 

 Chair, in the presence of my Dukes and kinsmen, nobles and 

 chaplains, and with the assent and approval of the Archbishops 

 Eadsine and Elfric, and all the others whose names are mentioned 

 at the end of this instrument." t 



/ 

 * Here, as well as in the Charter to Bishop Eldred, it seems to be im- 

 plied that the Episcopal Throne had been both at S. Petrocks and at S. 

 Germans. 



f We subjoin the original of this important Charter of King Edward 

 the Confessor. 



" Translatio Sedis Cathedralis de Cridetun in Exoniam. A.D. ML. 



" ^ Igitur cum universa in sapientia a Deo bene condita sunt, videlicet, 

 coelum, arvum, et qute in eis continentur, dignum quippe ^quumque dino- 

 scitiu' fore quamquam impossibilitas segrte humanitatis humanos actus pluris 

 calamitatibus conturbet, quo nos qui Eectores hominum a Deo constituti 

 dicimur instinctu supernse dementias, juxta modulum nostrse censure pru- 

 denter ^quitatem civilis exquirere studeamus scientias, et praecipue res 

 ecclesiastics denique discutiendo tractare ea qua3 cernuntur nostris non asqua 

 optutibus rectius con&tituere, sicque sanoita ad profectum innocentise, sive 

 utriusque vice corroborando gubernare. Equidem gloriosum est nimiumque 

 laudabile destructas eedes sanctorum locorum ad Divinimi adminiculum 



