St. Teath is in the hundred of Trig, is bounded to the west by
Endellian and St. Kew, to the north by the sea and Tintagell, to the
east by Lanteglos and Michaelstow, to the south by St. Tudy.
I take St. Tathius to be the tutelar saint of this parish, of whom Mr.
Camden saith, (Brit. in Monmouthshire,) that he was a British saint,
who governed an academy at Caer Went, and also founded a church there
in the reign of King Kradock ap Ynir, circa an. Dom ――――.
This is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book £12.; the patronage in
the Bishop of Exeter; the impropriation of the sheaf in the heirs of
the late Matthew Beale, Esq.; the incumbent ――――.
In the Taxatio Benef. an. 1291, 19 or 20 Edward I. is this note,
Thechd, which, if meant for St. Teath, then it is valued, “Prebend’
Mag’ri Osberti iiij_l._ x_s._; Prebend’ Mag’ri W. de Wymondesham
iiij_l._ x_s._; Vicar’ ejusdem xx_s._”