THE ECCLESIA8TICAL HISTOEY OF OLD PLYMOUTH. 331 
later. Just now we want a Thomas Yogge to restore the church 
somewhat to the state it was in when he worshipped there. 
Alas for the ingratitude of the men of Plymouth in the 15th 
century! Although Yogge had done so much, he had enemies, and 
you know what happened. A bye-law was passed, framed with 
special intent. It was resolved that no man should be made free 
unless he was a whole or half-brother of the guild of our Lady and 
St. George. Yogge, being neither, was treated (municipally) as a 
heathen man and a publican. And this after having served the 
office of mayor three times. 
On the 30th of June, 1472, John Stubbes was licensed per- 
petual vicar of St. Andrew. He was Treasurer of the cathedral, 
but resigned on being appointed Precentor. He afterwards became 
Archdeacon of Barnstaple. 
John Stubbes seems to have been an active vicar. He was not 
satisfied with following in the steps of his predecessors, but took 
an interest in the outlying parts of his parish. Stonehouse, St. 
Budeaux, the chapel of St. Pancras (Pennycross), and other places, 
were under the special care of the mother church, to which all 
the inhabitants of the then extensive parish of St. Andrew owed 
allegiance. "We may conclude that these places were becoming 
more populous. The vicar applied to the bishop, and obtained a 
license for the purpose of appointing a priest to officiate in the 
chapel of St. Lawrence, at Stonehouse. In 1482 he also seems to 
have assisted the inhabitants of St. Budeaux. It appears that 
they preferred a petition to the bishop on his visitation, setting 
forth that baptism and burial were offices for which the inhabi- 
tants had ever been accustomed to resort to the mother church ; 
that such attendance was very inconvenient, the distance three 
miles, and frequent impediments occurring; that other divine 
services, except baptism and burial, were and had been of ancient 
usage solemnized at the chapel by the vicars of St. Andrew, or by 
their deputy, at the expense of the said vicars for the time being ; 
and the petition concludes by asking that not only all other parts 
of divine service, but baptisms and burials likewise, might for the 
future be celebrated at the chapel of St. Budox, and that a piece 
of ground contiguous thereto might be consecrated for a cemetery. 
The parties concerned in the matter were the Prior of Plympton, 
David Berkleigh, patron of the Yicarage of St. Andrew ; the vicar, 
John Stubbes ; and the wardens and twenty-three of the inhabitants 
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