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

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.

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