[PLACE OF ORIGINAL CORNISH SEE OR SEES.]

"Cornubiensium sane pontificum succiduam ordinem nec scio nec appono, nisi quod apud Sanctum Petrocum confessorem fuerit Episcopatus sedes; locus est apud aquilonales Britones supra mare juxta flumen quod dicitur Hegelmithe : quidam dicunt fuisse ad Sanctum Germanum juxta flumen Liner supra mare in australi parte."-While, however,

10. Florence of Worcester or his continuator (Append. ad Chron., M. H. B. 643), mentions S. Germain's only-" In Domnania, quæ Devenescire dicitur, et in Cornubia, quæ nunc Cornugallia dicitur, erantque tunc" (in Saxon times) " duo Episcopatus, unus in Cridetuna, et alter apud Sanctum Germanum; nunc est unus, et est sedes ejus Exoniæ."

II. And lastly, an Inquisitio of 32nd Edw. III., Oct. 8 (A.D. 1358), recited in a Patent of Richard II. (Nov. 10th 7 Ric. II. i. e. 1383), expressly affirms that "tunc," viz. in the time of Cnut and of Bishop Burhwold, "fuit ib dem" (i. e. "in Ecclesia Sancti Germani")" sedes Episcopalis Cornubiæ."

It would seem to follow from these documents, 1. that the see was certainly but one see, and that at S. Germain's, yet with a kind of second cathedral at Bodmin, from Bishop Ealdred, or more precisely (if the Welsh statement is trustworthy) A.D. 981, to the year (1026 x 1035 or 1043) in which it was united to Crediton in the person of Bishop Living. 2. That it had possibly been at Petrockstowe, i. e. Bodmin, in a more decisive sense, prior to 981, upon the same Welsh evidence; perhaps, if at all, from the time of King Eadmund, perhaps from that of the Saxon Conquest of Æthelstan (although possibly indeed merged for a few years, under Bishop Ethelgar, in the see of Crediton), being during this period also a single see. 3. That in the year 926, Leland's language certainly inclines to fix it at S. Germain's, but not conclusively. 4. That up to the 7th century there may possibly have been two sees or more; but that Kenstec's Profession is worded as if there were only one at that time, viz. in the middle of the 9th century. And if only one, then that before 926 it was at a place called Dinnurrin (or Dingerein) certainly, and if Dinnurrin be identified with S. Germain's, then of course at S. Germain's, which was at that time, however, certainly called Llanaledh. But the question must remain still undetermined, although probabilities incline towards S. Germain's, in default of evidence to fix with certainty the locality of "Dinnurrina."

See also Pedler and Carne, as quoted above, p. 683, note.