Howsoeuer, the same King, not long after, passed away, this Castle,
vnto Christs Colledge in Oxford, who vse it as a place of retrayt,
when the Vniuersitie is visited with any contagious sicknes.
I haue vnderstood, that question is made amongst men of knowledge,
what is become of this Duchy. Some holding it altogether extinct,
for want of the kings issue male: some auerring, that it is suspended
in nubibus (as they say) pro tempore: and some supposing, that it
continueth in full power, and that her Maiestie hath onely custodiam
ducatus, as of Bishopricks, sede vacante. Penes Iudicem lis sit.
Once, euery Sheriffe is summoned to enter his account in the Duchy
Exchequer, at Lostwithyel, and from thence, referred ouer to the
Exchequer above.
Cornwall considered as a part of the Realme, sorteth her gouernment
into two kindes; spirituall, and temporall.
Touching the spirituall: In ancient times this Shire had his
particular Bishop: and I find, how in the yeere, 905. Forinosus the
Pope sent a sharpe letter to Edward the sonne of Alfride, reproouing
him, for suffering the West Saxons to be destitute of Bishops seuen
yeeres together.
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