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the above-mentioned donations to Montacute Priory to pass un- 

 molested. "With respect to Alternon, Prior Mark and his convent 

 of Montacute transferred their rights in its church to William 

 Briwere, Bishop of Exeter, in July, 1236, and in the following 

 year the Bishop granted its appropriation to his Dean and 

 Chapter.* 



" From a survey of the parish in 1281 .we discover that the 

 service-book of the church (ordinale) was good and sufficient, i.e- 

 after the Sarum rite — that it contained a life of St. Nouna, 

 Vita Sancte Nounne. William of Worcester, quoting the calendar 

 of St. Michael's Mount, affirms that her remains lay within the 

 parochial church of Alternon— jacet apud ecclesiam Villae 

 Alternoniae. 



" A chapel at Nonnestonys, in this parish, was licensed by 

 Bishop Stafford, 18th Sept., 1400. From this parish sprang the 

 ancient family of Trelawny. To John Trelawny and his wife 

 Matilda had been conceded, in 1400, the privilege of an oratory 

 at Trelawny, Treganek, and Woleston." — Thus far Dr. Oliver. 



The festival of the patron Saint was kept on 2nd March, the 

 day after St. David died, about the year 544 (according to the 

 legend of Bishop Grrandisson), at the advanced age of 145. 

 This advanced age was supposed by Hals to have been exceeded 

 by one Peter Joll, a native of Altarnon ; but it appears the 

 latter must be regarded as a mythical personage, for in replying 

 to certain questions put to him by Mr. Lysons, who was seeking 

 material for his county-history, the then vicar, Mr. Hart, wrote 

 thus : — "the family of Joll, though not remarked in the Regis- 

 ters, are remarkable for their longevity ; and this circumstance 



* And the Dean and Chapter declared (1237) that they accepted " from the 

 Bishop with the concurrent consent of Abbots of Montacute and Cluni, the 

 church of Alternon, with the burdens nevertheless underwritten ; (1) to provide 

 for a perpetual Vicar a sufficient maintenance from the profits of the church 

 without any difficulty, so that the Vicarage shall not exceed 5 marks ; (2) 

 to pay 24 Vicars of the Cathedral Church of Exeter 12 marks, and to the 12 

 clerks of the second form 6 marks, and the 14 boys of the third form 7 marks 



yearly who shall diligently and devoutly assist in the daily mass of the 



Blessed Virgin ; (3) to preserve the anniversary of Lord William, Bishop of 

 Exeter, giving each Canon present 4 pence, each Vicar 2 pence, and all the rest 

 in the choir of second and third form 1 penny ; but clerks and boys in the third 

 form a single farthing." 



