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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INST&UTION". 
of St. Budeaux, who are named. The bishop considered the petition, 
and all the parties having bound themselves to abide by his de- 
cision, his lordship, at the Priory of Plympton, on the 20th May, 
1482, under his seal, decreed, that, in addition to all the eccle- 
siastical services performed at the chapel of St. Budox of ancient 
usage, baptisms and burials should in future be likewise there 
solemnized ; that a cemetery should, at the costs and charges 
of the inhabitants, be consecrated contiguous to the chapel ; that 
the vicar and his successors should at all future times provide, at 
his own expense, a chaplain to reside there ; that the inhabitants 
should on their parts build him a house thirty feet by sixteen feet, 
within the ground of the sanctuary; that they should for ever 
repair, and, if necessary, rebuild the same house and their chapel, 
and supply it with all things requisite for divine service at their 
own costs, the said chapel having been originally consecrated as a 
favour to them ; that the said wardens and inhabitants should not 
do anything to the detriment of the mother church of St. Andrew 
or its parishioners, but do in all things as they were formerly ac- 
customed to do ; that they should not intermeddle with the pasture 
or trees of the cemetery to be consecrated ; that they should pay 
fourpence a year in the chapel to the prior and convent, and to 
the vicar of St. Andrew forty shillings yearly, and the customary 
offerings to the curate ; and that unless they did all things as 
provided, the privileges given them should cease, and they should 
resort again to St. Andrew's church for baptism and burial, and 
pay forty shillings fine to the vicar of St. Andrew. 
And so it was settled ; but whether the parishioners rebuilt their 
chapel or made the old one do, we cannot say, but we find that 
the church did not remain very long; for in the middle of the 
sixteenth century, in 1563, a new church, the present edifice,* was 
built higher up, the old one being found inconvenient for the 
parishioners. Thus St. Budeaux became a parish, and under the 
conditions referred to, free from leading strings. 
Early in the 16th century, Hadrian de Castello, Cardinal of St. 
Chrysogonus, was the vicar of St. Andrew. What brought an 
ecclesiastic of such rank into these parts we can only conjecture. 
In April, 1509, he became Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the first 
and only cardinal of which Plymouth can boast quitted it for 
ever. 
* Lysons' "Devon," p. 89. 
