COLLEGE. In the days of K. Edward the Confessor here were a dean and
canons,[148] endowed with lands, and the privilege of a sanctuary.[149]
The church[150] was given by K. Henry 1. to the bishop and church of
Exeter, who still enjoy the great tithes and the advowson of the
vicarage.
[Domesd. tom. i. fol. 121. H. E.]
[Hearne mentions PORT ELIOT in the margin of his copy of Tanner’s
first edition, and says it was sometimes a Priory, and at the
Dissolution K. Henry VIII. bestowed it upon one of the ancestors of
Richard Elliot mentioned in Norden’s Descr. of Cornwall. H. E.]