Page:The parochial history of Cornwall.djvu/293

Rh Doctor Tanner quotes the following extract from Prynne, vol. . p. 736, (probably from his Records:) Many grants of the deanery and prebends here by the king appear upon the rolls, but seem to be made during the vacancy of the see of Exeter.

Anno Dom. 1315, Feb. 22, Walterus episcopus Exon. contulit Joanni de Sandale, cancellario regis, Prǣbendam in ecclesia St. Karentoci. See Wharton's Historia de Episcopis et Decanis Londinensibus, necnon de Episcopis et Decanis Assavensibus a prima sedis utriusque fundatione, ad annum MDXL.

This parish measures 2490 statute acres. giving an increase of 53 per cent in 30 years.

Parish Feast, the nearest Sunday to the 16th of May.

Vicar, the Rev. C. H. Paynter, instituted 1809.

This parish is composed of the same kind of rock, and is in every respect similar to St. Columb Minor, which occupies the opposite or northern side of the gannel.

Is situate in the hundred of Powdre, and hath upon the north, St. Stephen's; east, St. Mewan; west, Probus: south, St. Tue. For the present name, it is derived from Credo, i.e. belief, trust, confidence; and refers to the holy Christian faith, read or rehearsed in