Is situate in the hundred of Trigminor, and hath upon the north the
Irish Sea; east, St. Teth; south, St. Kewe; west, St. Minvor. This is
that Delian taxed in Domesday Roll, 20th William I. (1087,) and refers
to the name of the tutelar guardian and patron of this church, here
extant before the Norman Conquest, viz. St. Delian, or Telian, a
British saint, said to be made Bishop of Menevia, or Landaff, after
St. David’s death, anno Dom. 563, (see DAVIDSTOW,) (who was born in
Merionethshire, and had his education under St. Dubritius, Bishop of
Landaff, anno Dom. 520,) by whose instruction and piety he became a
learned and pious divine, and was furthered and confirmed therein by
St. David, afterwards Bishop of Landaff, alias Menevia.
This St. Delian accompanied St. David in pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to
visit the holy cross and sepulchre, from whence they safely returned
again into their own country; and finding the same greatly infected
with the plague, St. Delian, as was generally said, by his sincere and
fervent prayers soon delivered that country from the malignity of that
fatal disease, which long time before had destroyed great numbers of
its inhabitants. He is placed by Harpsfield and Campion in the Constat
of the Bishops of Landaff, and that he died about the year 570.
In this church of St. Delian, (now called Ene-Delian, or Ene-Dellian,)
soon after the Norman Conquest, some gentlemen, lords of tenements in
this parish, set up and endowed here a court, corporation, or college,
of six Prebends, or Canons Augustine, as council or assistants to the
Bishop, Dean, or Rector, viz. the Lord of the Barton of Trearike, now
Peter’s, and two others, who alternately are patrons of this church,
and present the rector thereto. The Prebend of Trearick was given by
Richardson to one Grey; the patronage of which is in the Earl of
Radnor.
In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, 1294, the
revenues of Ecclesia de Enedelian-ta, (id est, the church of the good
soul of Delian,) then a vicarage, were thus charged:
1. Prebend. Dom. Paganus de Liske, in eadem, xl_s._
2. Prebend. John Moderet, lx_s._
3. Prebend. Henricus de Monkton, iiii_l._ ii_s._
4. Prebend. Dominus Reginald Thick, iiii_l._ ii_s._
5. Prebend. Magister Osberti, iiii. x_s._
6. Prebend. Magister William de Wymondham, iiii_l._ x_s._
Vicarius ejusdem xx_s._
In all 23_l._ 4_s._
In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, and Valor Beneficiorum, this church of
Endelian is rated to First Fruits 10_l._ The Incumbent Wills; and the
parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, 180_l._
Within this district now stands the barton and manor of Ros-cur-ok,
rated as the voke lands of two manors or parishes in Domesday Roll,
20th William I. (1087.) The same, I suppose, mentioned in Carew’s
Survey of Cornwall, p. 47.
Tre-freke, alias Tre-vreke, alias Tre-frege, synonymous words in
British, (that is to say, the wife’s town, or a town pertaining to
some wife,) is the dwelling of John Hamly, Gent, that married
Treffreye.
Pen-nant, in this parish, (i. e. the head of the valley,) is the
dwelling of John Rawe, Gent. that married Kelly.
Tresongar, or Tresongadh, is the dwelling of John Matthews, Gent. that
married Vivian of Truan. The present possessor, Mr. Matthews, leaving
no issue male, his only daughter and heir is married to Henry Bond,
Gent. attorney-at-law, steward to the Earl of Radnor.
In this parish, as I take it, is situate the barton of Cheny (see St.
TETH).
It is now, I suppose, in possession of Mr. Danell.