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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. IV.
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.
Stithians is situate in the hundred of Kerrier, and hathupon the north Gwenap, west Gwendron, east Gluvias andPeran-well, south Mabe.
I take it to be the same place taxed in the DomesdayBook 1087, by the corrupt name of Stachenue.[1] At thetime of the first inquisition into the value of Cornish Beneficesthis church was not endowed if extant, nor its daughterchurch Peranwell; but in Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521,it was rated by the name of Stedians, £14. 0s. 8d. Thepatronage formerly, as I am informed, either in the rectorand fellows of the College of Regular Priests at Glasnith,or the Governor of St. John’s Hospital at Sithney, now inBoscawen; the incumbent —— Hillman, and theparish rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax, forone year 1696, £104. 4s. 0d.; the rectory in ——Boscawen.
This church is dedicated to St. Thomas à Beckett, andaccordingly their parish festival is kept on St. Thomas’s2