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THE
PAROCHIAL HISTORY
OF
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET.
THE
PAROCHIAL HISTORY
OF
CORNWALL,
FOUNDED ON THE MANUSCRIPT HISTORIES
OF
MR. HALS AND MR. TONKIN;
WITH ADDITIONS AND VARIOUS APPENDICES,
BY
SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY,
F.A.S. F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A. &c. &c.
AND D.C.L. BY DIPLOMA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SON;
AND SOLD BY
J. LIDDELL, BODMIN; J. LAKE, FALMOUTH; O. MATTHEWS, HELSTON;MESSRS. BRAY AND ROWE, LAUNCESTON; T. VIGURS, PENZANCE;MRS. HEARD, TRURO; W. H. ROBERTS, EXETER; J. B. ROWE, PLYMOUTH;AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN CORNWALL AND DEVON.
1838.
HISTORY
OF THE
PARISHES OF CORNWALL.
HALS.
The manuscript relating to this parish is lost.
TONKIN.
Lanwhitton, vulgo Lawhitton, is in the hundred of East;and hath to the west South Pederwin, to the north Launceston,to the east the river Tamar, to the south Lezant.
As for the name, I take Whitton to be the same asWhidden, white or fair; so as to signify the white or fairchurch, from the beauty of its first building. It is arectory valued in the King’s books at 19l.6s.8d. TheBishop of Exeter is the patron.
All this parish doth in a manner entirely belong to theBishop of Exeter’s great manor of Lanwhitton.
I shall begin therewith: Mr. Camden tells you thatthis was one of the three manors given by Edward theelder about the year 905 to the Bishop of Kirton, fromwhom, on the union of the sees, it came to the Bishop ofExeter, in whose hands it hath ever since continued.
By an extract from the Register of John de Grandison,Bishop of Exeter, from 1327 to 1369, it appears that at2an Assizes held at Launceston, before John de Berwick,Walter de Burveton, Henry Spigurnel, John Ralph, andHenry de Stainton, Justices Itinerant, Thomas Bishop ofExeter was summoned to answer to our Lord th