ALIEN PRIORY. The advowson of the priory of Tregony, as belonging to
the abbey de Valle in Normandy, is mentioned fin. div. com. _52 Hen.
3._ n. 18. This priory with the advowsons of the churches of Tregony
and Biry were made over A.D. 1267, by the abbat and convent de Valle
in diœc. Bajoc. to the prior and convent of Merton.[171]
_Vide_ inter munimenta eccl. cath. Exon. cartam abbatis et conventus
de Valle, de resignatione hujus prioratus.
[Bishop Lyttelton in a letter to Browne Willis, copied in MS. Cole,
Brit. Mus. vol. xl. p. 59. says, “In the last edition of the
Monastica Notitia the author queries if there was any Priory at
Tregony in Cornwall. I find the original resignation thereof of the
Abbat de Valle in Normandy to the Bp. of Exon, Peter Quivil, for the
use of the Priory of Merton, together with the advowsons of the
parish churches of Tregony and Bury, dated 1267.” H. E.]