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[THE
Story of an Ancient Parish
BREAGE WITH GERMOE,]
With some account of its Armigers, Worthies and Unworthies, Smugglers and Wreckers, Its Traditions and Superstitions
BY
H. R. COULTHARD, M.A.
1913.
The Camborne Printing and Stationery Company, Limited.
Camborne, Cornwall.
Mr. J. A. D. Bridger, 112a and 112b, Market Jew Street. Penzance.
I dedicate this small volume to the friends and neighbours who in the first place suggested the writing of it to me by telling me stories of the days of their fathers.
[CONTENTS.]
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | THE CELTIC PERIOD | [9] |
| II. | THE SAXONS | [28] |
| III. | FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE REFORMATION | [35] |
| IV. | THE REFORMATION TO THE END OF THE COMMONWEALTH | [59] |
| V. | RECENT TIMES | [82] |
| VI. | THE GODOLPHINS | [100] |
| VII. | THE ARUNDELLS, DE PENGERSICKS, MILTONS AND SPARNONS | [115] |
| VIII. | WORTHIES AND UNWORTHIES | [129] |
| IX. | PLACE NAMES AND SUPERSTITIONS | [148] |
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]
[PREFACE.]
The facts and thoughts which comprise this little book were many of them, in the first instance, arranged for use in sermons on the Sundays preceding our local Feast Day, as some attempt to interest Parishioners in the story of our Church and parish.
I have to acknowledge with gratitude much information given me most ungrudgingly, from his great store of antiquarian learning, by the Reverend T. Taylor, Vicar of St. Just; likewise my thanks are due to Mr. H. Jenner for kindly help and information upon the etymology of local place names. I must also acknowledge the free use I have made of facts bearing upon the history of Breage and Germoe taken from Mr. Baring-Gould's "Historic Characters and Events in Cornwall," and at the same time I have to express my thanks to the Reverend H. J. Warner, Vicar of Yealmpton, the Reverend H. G. Burden, Vicar of Leominster, and Mr. A. E. Spender for valuable information and assistance. I have been greatly helped in my examination of the Parish Registers by the excellent transcription of large parts of them made by Mrs. Jocelyn Barnes. Finally I have to thank a great number of kind friends at Breage, who have imparted to me the fast fading traditions of other times, to whom I venture to dedicate this brief record of days that are no more.
Breage,
All Saints' Day, 1912.
| Date of Institution. | LIST OF THE VICARS OF BREAGE. | |
| — | WILLIAM, Son of RICHARD | Died or resigned during the Interdict |
| 1219 | WILLIAM, Son of HUMPHREY | |
| 1264 | Master ROBERT de la MORE | Resigned to become Canon of Glasney, ultimately parson of Yeovil. |
| 1264 | Master STEPHENUS de ARBOR | |
| — | Sir PASCASIUS | No date of Institution. Old, blind and infirm in 1310. |
| 1313 | Sir DAVID de LYSPEIN | |
| — | Sir JOHN YURL de TREGESOU | No date of Institution. |
| 1362 | HENRY CRETTIER | |
| — | Sir WILLIAM PELLOUR | No date of Institution. |
| 1393 | Sir JOHN GODE | Died at Breage. |
| 1403 | Master WILLIAM PENSANS | Died at Breage. |
| 1439 | Sir JOHN PATRY | Died at Breage. |
| 1444 | Sir JOHN PEYTO | Died at Breage. |
| 1445 | Sir WILLIAM LEHE | Died at Breage. |
| 1466 | Sir WILLIAM PERS | Resigned to become Canon of Glasney. |
| 1505 | Master THOMAS GODOLPHIN | Resigned. |
| 1510 | Master JOHN JAKES, Bachelor in Decrees | Died at Breage. |
| 1536 | JOHN BERY, M.A. | Died at Breage. |
| 1558 | Sir ALEXANDER DAWE | Died at Breage. |
| 1595 | FRANCIS HARVEY, M.A. | Vicar also of St. Erth, buried in Breage Churchyard. |
| 1607 | WILLIAM COTTON, M.A. | Son of the Bishop of Exeter, resigned, holder of many other benefices in Devon and Cornwall. |
| 1608 | WILLIAM ORCHARD, "Preacher of the Word of God." | Resigned. |
| JAMES INNES (ejected 1661) | Intruding Puritan Divine. | |
| 1661 | JAMES TREWINNARD, M.A. | Resigned on becoming Vicar of Mawgan, at which place he lies buried. |
| 1696 | HENRY BUTHNANCE | Died at Breage, lies buried beyond the East wall of the chancel. |
| 1720 | JAMES TREWINNARD, M.A. | Died at Breage, also Vicar of Mawgan. |
| 1722 | EDWARD COLLINS, | Died at Breage, also Vicar of St. Erth, where he lies buried. |
| 1755 | HENRY USTICKE, B.A. | Died at Breage, lies buried beyond the East wall of the chancel. |
| 1769 | EDWARD MARSHALL, M.A. | Died at Breage. |
| 1803 | RICHARD GERVEYS GRYLLS, M.A. | Resigned. |
| 1809 | RICHARD GERVEYS GRYLLS, M.A., the younger | Died at Luxulian, which parish he held in conjunction with Breage. |
| 1853 | EDWARD MORRIS PRIDMORE, M.A. | Died at Breage. |
| 1889 | JOCELYN BARNES, M.A. | Died at Breage. |
| 1904 | HARRY JOHN PETTY | Resigned. |
| 1907 | HUGH ROBERT COULTHARD, M.A. | |
[THE CELTIC PERIOD.]
