Chapter XXIV: PENRYN, alias Glaseney, in the parish of Gluvias and deanry

of_ Kerrier.

COLLEGE. Walter Bronescomb the good bishop[143] of Exeter,[144] about the year 1270,[145] built a collegiate church on a moor called Glasenith, at the bottom of his park at Penryn, to the honor of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury. It consisted of a provost, a sacrist, eleven prebendaries,[146] seven vicars,[147] and six choristers; and was certified, _26 Hen. 8._ to be worth 210_l._ 13_s._ 2_d._ _per ann. in toto_. 205_l._ 10_s._ 6_d._ _clare_.

_Vide_ in Mon. Angl. tom. iii. p. ii. p. 56. pat. 18 Ed. 2. p. 2. m.
17. appropriationem ecclesiæ S. Alune in Cornubia.
Lelandi Collect. vol. i. p. 115. ejusdem Itin. vol. iii. p. 27. vol.
vii. p. 120.
In Itin. Will. de Worcestre, p. 122. 128. de fundatione collegii de
Penryn.
In bibl. Harleiana, ms. 862. f. 118. instrumenta spectantia ad
ecclesiam collegiatam de Glasney.
Registrum hujus collegii, penes ―――― Parsons un. audit. scaccarii, A.D.
1706. postea penes Jacobum Mickleton de hosp. Grayensi arm.
Videtur esse idem cum registro penes Joannem Row nuper de medio
Templo London, arm. unde quamplurima excerpsit V. cl. Joannes
Anstis arm.
Pat. 8 Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 2. 17. 20 et 27. Pat. 10 Ed. 2. p. 1. m: 19.
de vicariis ecclesiæ.
Fin. 2 Ed. 3. m. 6. in cedula: Pat. 2 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 36. pro ten.
et eccl. in Lamerock: Pat. 26 Ed. 3. p. 3. m. 21. pro eccl. S.
Justi in Penwith approprianda: Pat. 43 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 40. d. Pat.
44 Ed. 3. p. 1. m; 10. et p. 2. m. 3. Pat. 45 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 40.
d.
Pat. 8 Hen. 4. p. 2. m. 9. pro ten. in Trewtham pro cantaria apud
_Bodryganes alter_ in hoc collegio.
[Harl. MS. 6958. p. 294.
6960. pp. 166. 184. 234.
6961. p. 225.
Ducarel’s Extr. from the Lamb. Registers in Brit. Mus. vol. ix. p.
218. H. E.]