THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF OLD PLYMOUTH. 327 
In 1334 the then vicar, "William de Wolley, surrendered the 
benefice, in order to become a perpetual resident, as a religious, at 
the Priory at Plympton ; and on the 23rd November, for some 
reason or other, perhaps because he did not like to appoint one of 
the house, the prior, on behalf of himself and fellows, granted to the 
bishop of the diocese, Grandison, the nomination of the next vicar. 
On the 23rd December following the bishop appointed a canon 
of Plympton, Nicholas de "Weyland. 
But in spite of the right of the prior, thus acted upon, we find, 
about forty years later, that the king, Edward III., presented, 
notwithstanding opposition, one John Hanneye to the vicarage then 
vacant, and the bishop, Brantyngham, proceeded to institute him. 
About 1385 John Edenes was the vicar. He was also provost 
of the College of Glasney, at Penryn. He was a church builder, 
or restorer; for it was during the time he held the benefice 
that it is stated a south aisle was added to the church, dedi- 
cated to the Blessed Virgin, and licensed by the bishop 20th 
August, 1385. I am strongly of opinion that this so-called aisle 
was a chapel, built at the east end of the south aisle, and occupying 
the space south of the chancel ; in other words, an extension of the 
south aisle. Of course it is possible that an aisle the whole length 
of the chancel and nave of the church from east to west was 
added ; but if so, the church before this must have been small for 
the size of the town (notwithstanding, as we shall see by and by, 
that there were now other provisions for divine worship), the popu- 
lation numbering a few years before 7,000, and the bulk of such 
population being, we must recollect, (not as now, unfortunately,) 
frequent church-goers. 
I am the more inclined to think that the whole aisle could not 
have been meant from the wording of the entry in the Registry, 
" Ala, Beatce Virginis cancello ecclesie de Sutton ex parte australi 
contigua et annexa, noviter constructa," which surely would not 
indicate such an important addition as the whole of the south aisle 
of the church. You may frequently see, I believe (for I am no 
architect, and stand subject to correction), a church with a nave 
and one aisle, but never, at all events in Devonshire, with a nave 
only. 
The Brothers Minor, who, as we shall see soon, were by this 
time firmly established in Plymouth, as well as the Carmelites, now 
began to give the vicars of St. Andrew trouble. These preaching 
