BENEDICTINE CELL. In the biggest of the Sylly islands, called
Iniscaw,[158] was a poor cell of two Benedictine monks dedicated to
St. Nicholas, belonging to Tavistock abbey, even before the Conquest,
and confirmed to them afterward by K. Henry 1. Reginald earl of
Cornwall, &c.
_Vide_ in Mon. Angl. tom. i: p. 516. cart. 1 Joan. p. 2. m. 65. Pat.
19 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 5. et ibid. p. 1002. Cartas RR. Hen. 1. Ed. 1.
Reginaldi com. Cornub. et Barthol. episc. Exon. ex registro
Tavestochiensi.
Leland. Itin. vol. iii. p. 19.
Cart. 1 Joan. p. 1. n. 155 et 219. de decimis forestsæ de Guffaer.
XXIX. ST. SYRIAC,[159] St. Cyriac,[160] St. Carricius,[161] St.
Karrocus,[162] St. Cyret, _and_ Julette.[163]
CLUNIAC CELL. Hare was a small religious house of two Benedictine[164]
or Cluniac[165] monks, as early as K. Richard 1st’s time,[166] cell to
Montacute[167] in Somersetshire; and as parcel of the possessions of
that priory it was granted, _37 Hen. 8._ to Laurence Courtney.
_Vide_ Mon. Angl. tom. i. p. 670, 671. tom. ii. p. 910.
Leland. Itin. vol. iii. p. 37. vol. vii. p. 121.
Pat. 15 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 5. de concessione hujus cellæ Willelmo
comiti Sarisb. per priorem et conv. de Monteacuto.
[Report to the Originalia, vol. iv. fol. 155 b. Brit. Mus., where it
is called St. Caroch.]
XXX. ST. THETHA, St. Teath _or_ St. Etha, _in the deanry of_ Trigge
Minor.
COLLEGE. The parish church here is sometimes on the records called
collegiate,[168] and consisted of two prebendaries[169] or
portionists,[170] who seem to have been collated by the bishop of
Exeter.