HOSPITAL. Here is an old hospital for lazars, dedicated to St. Thomas,
which was well endowed and governed in Mr. Carew’s time.[136]
XXII. NYOTT, _olim_ Neotstoke,[137] _or_ Neotstow, _or_ St. Guerir,
_in the deanry of_ West.
MONASTERY DESTROYED. Here was a monastery[138] or college[139] founded
in honor of St. Neotus, brother[140] to K. Alfred, who was here
buried, which continued till after the Conquest. The church here
belonged to Montacute priory in Somersetshire.
_Vide_ in Joanne Glastoniensi, p. 111. historiolam fundationis hujus
monasterii.
Stevens’ Supplement, vol. i. p. 217.
[Domesd. tom. i. fol. 121. H. E.]
XXIII. PETROCSTOW, _or_ Padstow, _olim_ Loderic, _or_ Laffenac, _or_
Adelston,[141] _in the deanry of_ Pydre.
MONASTERY DESTROYED. St. Petroc, a religious man born in Wales, but
coming from Ireland, is said to have built a monastery on the north
coast of Cornwall, about A.D. 520 and to have been there buried;[142]
his body was afterward removed to Bodmin.
[Harl. MS. 6964. p. 77.――H. E.]
XXIV. PENRYN, _alias_ Glaseney, _in the parish of_ Gluvias _and deanry
of_ Kerrier.
COLLEGE. Walter Bronescomb the good bishop[143] of Exeter,[144] about
the year 1270,[145] built a collegiate church on a moor called
Glasenith, at the bottom of his park at Penryn, to the honor of the
blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury. It consisted of a
provost, a sacrist, eleven prebendaries,[146] seven vicars,[147] and
six choristers; and was certified, _26 Hen. 8._ to be worth 210_l._
13_s._ 2_d._ _per ann. in toto_. 205_l._ 10_s._ 6_d._ _clare_.
_Vide_ in Mon. Angl. tom. iii. p. ii. p. 56. pat. 18 Ed. 2. p. 2. m.
17. appropriationem ecclesiæ S. Alune in Cornubia.
Lelandi Collect. vol. i. p. 115. ejusdem Itin. vol. iii. p. 27. vol.
vii. p. 120.
In Itin. Will. de Worcestre, p. 122. 128. de fundatione collegii de
Penryn.
In bibl. Harleiana, ms. 862. f. 118. instrumenta spectantia ad
ecclesiam collegiatam de Glasney.
Registrum hujus collegii, penes ―――― Parsons un. audit. scaccarii, A.D.
1706. postea penes Jacobum Mickleton de hosp. Grayensi arm.
Videtur esse idem cum registro penes Joannem Row nuper de medio
Templo London, arm. unde quamplurima excerpsit V. cl. Joannes
Anstis arm.
Pat. 8 Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 2. 17. 20 et 27. Pat. 10 Ed. 2. p. 1. m: 19.
de vicariis ecclesiæ.
Fin. 2 Ed. 3. m. 6. in cedula: Pat. 2 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 36. pro ten.
et eccl. in Lamerock: Pat. 26 Ed. 3. p. 3. m. 21. pro eccl. S.
Justi in Penwith approprianda: Pat. 43 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 40. d. Pat.
44 Ed. 3. p. 1. m; 10. et p. 2. m. 3. Pat. 45 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 40.
d.
Pat. 8 Hen. 4. p. 2. m. 9. pro ten. in Trewtham pro cantaria apud
_Bodryganes alter_ in hoc collegio.
[Harl. MS. 6958. p. 294.
6960. pp. 166. 184. 234.
6961. p. 225.
Ducarel’s Extr. from the Lamb. Registers in Brit. Mus. vol. ix. p.
218. H. E.]