Chapter V: ST. BURIEN, in the deanry of Trigge Minor

COLLEGE. King Ethelstan is said to have built and endowed a collegiate church almost at the Land’s End,[101] and to have granted the benefit of a sanctuary and other privileges to the same, in honor of St. Buriena or Beriana a holy woman from Ireland, who had an oratory and was buried here. At the Conquest here were Secular canons,[102] as there were a dean and three prebendaries at the time of making the Lincoln taxation _20 Ed. 1._ and also down to _26 Hen. 8._ though this deanery was seized into the king’s hands _temp. Ed. 3._ by reason that Mr. John de Maunte then incumbent, was a Frenchman; and as alien, was given, _24 Hen. 6._ to King’s college in Cambridge, and afterward by K. Edward 4. (_anno regni 7_.) to Windsor college;[103] yet neither of those societies long enjoyed, or had any benefit from it; for it was all along, and still continues, an independent deanry, in the gift of the crown or of the duke of Cornwall, of exempt jurisdiction as a royal free chapel.[104] The deanry or rectory, _26 Hen. 8._ was valued at 48_l._ 12_s._ 1_d._ _per ann._ Prebenda parva 2_l._ 8_s._ 4_d._ Prebenda de Respernel 7_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ Prebenda de Tirthney 7_l._

_Vide_ Coke’s Institutes, vol. i. p. 344.
Roll’s Abridgement, p. 2. f. 341.
Prynne’s Papal Usurpations, vol. iii. p. 933.
Leland. Itin. vol. iii. p. 18. vol. vii. p. 117.
In bibl. Harleiana, ms. 980. p. 212. of the exemption of the dean
from episcopal jurisdiction and proceedings thereon, 26 Ed. 3. ms.
7048. p. 343. collectiones e chronico eccl. S. Burianæ.
De exemptione hujus ecclesiæ a jurisdictione episc. Exon. plac.
term. S. Hill; 8 Ed. 2. ms. penes V. cl. Andr. Fountaine equ. aur.
p. 167, &c.
Fragmentum registri hujus collegii tempore Roberti Knollys decani,
viz. ab anno 1473. ad annum 1485. ms. haud ita pridem in bibl. RR.
P. DD. Joannis Moore episc. Eliensis, nunc in bibl. publica acad.
Cantab. Ee. v. 34.
Cart. 15 Joan. m. 2. n. 42.
Cart. 30 Ed. 1. n. 26. pro mercato die Sabbati, et feria in vigilia,
die, et crast. S. Martini in hieme apud S. Burien.
Pat. 9 Ed. 2. p. 1. m. 10 vel 20. Plac. coram rege, 12 Ed. 2. Mich.
rot. 128. Ibid. 17 Ed. 2. Trin. rot. 90.
Pat. 1 Ed. 3. p. 3. m. 13. de prebenda de Trethin, &c. Claus. 11 Ed.
3. p. 2. m. 13. Plac. coram rege, 13 Ed. 3. … rot.. Escaet.
Corn. 20 Ed. 3. n. 32. Pat. 20 Ed. 3. p. 2. m. 15. Pat. 31 Ed. 3.
p. 3. m. 9.
Pat. 24 Hen. 6. p. 3. m. 28. pro appropriatione hujus decanatus
collegio S. Nicholai in Acad. Cantab.
Pat. 1 Ed. 4. p. 3. m. 24.
[MS. Lansd. Brit. Mus. 966. Ex Chronico quodam Ecclesiæ Sanctæ
Burianæ in Cornub. MS. penes Matth. Hutton, S.T.P. fol. 11. b.
Harl. MS. 6958. pp. 219, 220, 224, 241, 253.
6959. pp. 260, 286.
6960. pp. 25, 68.
6961. pp. 48, 86, 198, 205.
6962. pp. 20, 98, 128.
6963. pp. 72, 122.
MS. Cole, vol. xxvii. fol. 184 b.
Domesd. tom. i. fol. 121.
Mr. Moyle’s Works, i. p. 247. H. E.]