[WELSH BISHOPS IN THE TIME OF OWEN GLYNDWR.] II. S. ASAPH. John Trevor or Trevaur, 1395-1410. Bishop Trevor pronounced sentence of deposition on Richard II., and was ambassador of Henry IV. to Spain, in 1399 (Walsingh., II. 242), was also Chamberlain of Chester 1399-1405 (Wharton, De Episc. Assav.), and received confirmations from Henry of Papal grants (to hold the livings of "Meyvot," etc., in commendam with his see in consequence of his losses by the Welsh war) August 23, 1401 (Rymer, VIII. 223) and March 14, 1402 a (ib. 246); but he was "factus transfuga ad Howenum" in 1404 (Walsingh., II. 262), and was probably one of the two Bishops (Lewis of Bangor probably being the other) who in 1407, with the Earl of Northumberland, vainly sought an interview with the supposed Richard II. at Stirling (Fordun, II. 441). In 1408 the spiritualties of his see were given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to Thomas abbat of Shrewsbury (Reg. Arundel). May 16, 1409, Owen, and "Johannes qui se prætendit Episcopum Assavensem, proditores et rebelles nostri," were together and in rebellion against Henry (De Rebellibus etc. in partibus Wallia reprimendis, Rymer, VIII. 588), and so also in 1410 (ib. 611). But April 10, 1410, Fridayb, " Johannes Episcopus Herefordensis in Wallia" died in Paris and was buried in the Infirmary Chapel of S. Victor's Abbey (Br. Willis, S. Asaph), who is obviously meant for Bishop Trevor. And accordingly, Oct. 8, 1410, the see of S. Asaph is declared vacant (Pat. 12 Hen. IV.), and Robert of Lancaster is consecrated to it June 28, 1411 (Reg. Arundel). a The David, whom Wharton inserts (De Episc. Assav.) as Bishop 1402-1411, is simply a blunder. His existence rests solely on an Inspeximus by Henry V. Feb. 4, 1415 (2 Hen. V.), of a grant of privileges by Hen. IV. July 20, 1402 (3 Hen. IV.), to "David" of S. Asaph ("nuper Episcopus," in 1415), from the Lib. Rub. Assav. (in Peniarth MSS. 26; and printed in Nichols' Collect. Topogr., II. 277, but with a misdate of 2 Hen. IV. for 3 Hen. IV.). Indisputably, in July 1402 (and still more in 1401) John Trevor was both Bishop of S. Asaph and in favour with Henry IV.; while he and none other was " nuper Episcopus" in 1415. No doubt the initial letter only of the name was transcribed by the copyist, or at the most “ Dd.," and he ought to have written " Johannes." Here, then, there was no Welsh intrusion of a Bishop, as there was at Bangor, but the Canterbury Bishop joined the Welsh. And while at Bangor the see was filled during the lifetime of the rebel Bishop, at S. Asaph the King waited for the Bishop's death. b April 10, 1410, was however a Thursday. *** Item ordenez est et establez, que nulle homme Galois soit fait Justice, etc., n'autre office quelconque, en nulle partie de Gales, etc.: [WELSHMEN, EXCEPT AS BISHOPS, NOT TO HOLD OFFICE IN WALES.] ...... forspris lez Evesques en Gales; et de ceux et dez autrez, quex le Roy nostre Seigneur ad trovez sez bonez et loials lieges, il voet estre avisez par soun Conseil.-[Item ordinatum et statutum est, quod nullus homo Wallensis Justiciarius, etc., nec in ullo alio officio constituatur, in aliqua parte Walliæ, etc.; exceptis Episcopis in Wallia, de quibus, ut et de aliis, quos Rex dominus noster bonos et fideles sibi subditos comperit, secundum Concilii sui suffragia statuet.]-[Stat. 4 Hen. IV. c. 32a; Rec. of Caernarvon, p. 146; Wotton, Legg. Wall. Append. VII. p. 549.] This and other like Acts of Parliament relating to Wales, were confirmed in a lump by 25 Hen. VI. A.D. 1449. COUNCILS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. IV. CHURCH OF CORNWALL DURING THE SAXON PERIOD, A. D. 681-1072. Auditum namque et diversis rumoribus relativis compertum nobis est, quod sacerdotes vestri a Catholicæ fidei regula secundum Scripturæ præceptum minime concordent.-ALDHELM, Epist. ad Gerunt. Reg. Damnoniæ. [A.D. 705.] Addiderunt [Eadulfo Episcopo Cridiensi, c. A.D. 909], tres villas in Cornubia, ut inde singulis annis visitaret gentem Cornubiensem ad exprimendos eorum errores.-Memor. in Leofric's Missal, fol. 2. [MSS. Bodl. 579, A.D. 1050 × 1072.] CHURCH OF CORNWALL DURING THE SAXON PERIOD, A. D. 681-1072. [A.D. 682. "West Welsh driven to the sea" by Kentwin of Wessex (Anglo-Sax. Chron., Flor. Wig.-the boundary had been near Bradford in Wilts 652, at the Parret 658; Anglo-Sax. Chron.). But, A.D. 683. A counter victory claimed for the Cornish, giving them back as far as Glastonbury (Brut, Gwent.) A.D. 700. Saxons in Exeter (Willibald, V. S. Bonif., I. 5), but sharing it with Britons (W. Malm., G. R. A., II. 134). A.D. 705. Aldhelm persuades the Britons subject to Wessex to adopt the Roman Easter A.D. 721. The Cornish claim a victory over the Saxons (Brut y Tywysog.a). A.D. 833-900. Cornwall still a separate principality, but subject ecclesiastically (Prof. of A.D. 900. Exeter, with all the "parochia" belonging to Alfred in "Saxonia" (Devonshire) A.D. 909. See of Crediton constituted out of Devon and three parishes in Cornwall, the (British) Cornish see still continuing (Leofric's Missal, fol. 2). A.D. 926. Cornish [?] princes do homage to Athelstan (Anglo-Sax. Chron.), who is at Exeter in Easter 928 (Kemble, C. D. 1101); the Britons driven from Exeter and confined to the West of the Tamar (W. Malm., G. R. A., II. 135, G. P. A., II.); and the British Bishop of Cornwall a recognized suffragan of Canterbury (Kemble, C. D., from A.D.931). c. A.D. 950. First Saxon Bishop of Cornwall. A.D. 1026 or 1031 x 1035 or 1043. Cornish see merged in that of Crediton (Devon). A.D. 1072. First Norman Bishop of Exeter.] See also Bodl. MSS. 572, fol. 46 a, as quoted in Villemarqué, Notice des MSS. des Anc. Brétons, pp. 17, 18. A.D. 705. The Roman Easter, etc., adopted by the Britons subject to BÆD., H. E., V. 18 [A.D. 731].—Denique Aldhelm, cum adhuc esset presbyter et abbas monasterii quod Maildufi urbem nuncupant, scrip VOL. I. X X |