PREBENDARY HINGESTON-RANDOLPh's REGISTERS, 305 



seven hundred years ago. A Basset, of Tehidy, apj)lies for a 

 licence for a private chapel in his manor house, and a Trevel}'an 

 is found presenting a clerk to the living of Perran Uthnoe. 

 There are Boneythons at Bonython, and Helygans at Helygan ; 

 there are Kendalls in Tre^yorgy, and Trelawnys in Trelawny. 

 Sometimes in the same parish there occurs the name of the Lord 

 of the Manor applying for a license for the Manor House, and a 

 "Domicellus" of the same name asks to have the same advantage 

 in his home. Domicellus is a very common title in Stafford's 

 Eegister, and appears to mean the eldest son of the Lord of the 

 Manor living in his own house. 



More than half a millennium has passed since these things 

 were done, and still the same names are famiHar in the same 

 places. It is worth while to notice that the Registers often 

 preserve for us the memory of an office which has passed away. 

 For instance, the Rector of Illogan complains to the Bishop that 

 having appointed Thomas Tresculard, clerk, to the office of 

 " aquebajalus," certain persons named in the document of 

 complaint had removed the said Thomas from his benefice, and 

 had intruded another person into the same. There is not much 

 help to be had from the dictionaries even of Mediteval Latin as 

 to what an aqucbajulus was. It would seem that his duties were 

 parochial, but not necessarily ecclesiastical. I give three illus- 

 trations of the use of this word. The first is from the will of 

 Joan, widow of Robert Dyrwyn of Orediton. She leaves ... to 



each of the Yicars 8'\ to each Annuellar 6'\ to each 



Aqucbajulus in the Church 2'^ This was in 1391. Now, in 

 1334, Grandisson had reorganized this Collegiate Church 

 of Crediton, and in his statute he gives place and office to 

 Clericis aqucbajuUs, in the Divine Office of the Choir, while the 

 Parish Church is rebuilding : " donee Parochialis Ecclesia 

 antiqua ibidem re-edificetur." Their duties cannot be adequately 

 conceived of by simply supposing them to be bearers of holy 

 water. They are clerks, they are qualified to take part in the 

 'Divine Office of the Choir, and when the part of the building 

 which was the Parish Church should be completed, then the 

 Aquebajuli would resume their duties, whatever they were. It 

 seems likely that they were guardians of the fabric, workmen, 

 and bearers at funerals, and so if they were kindly men they 



