Whereon, by the aduice of his Councell, and
Arch-bishop Pleymund, he ordayned seuen bishops in one day; amongst
whome Herstane was consecrated to Cornwall, and Eadwolfe to Crediton,
which last had three townes in Cornwall, assigned him, to wit,
Pontium, Coelling, and Landwhitton, that thence he might yeerely visit
the people, to root out (as mine author sayth) their errours: for
before, as much as in them lay, they withstood the truth, and obeyed
not the Apostolike decrees. Whereon I ground two collections: the
first, that the light of the Gospell tooke not his originall shining
into these parts, from the Romish Bishop: the other that the Cornish
(like their cousins the Welsh] could not bee soone or easily induced
to acknowledge his iurisdiction. The Bishops see was formerly at
S. Petrocks in Bodmyn; but by reason the Danes burned there his
Church and palace, [979.] the same remooued to S. Germanes.
After that, Lumigius, from a Monke of Winchester, elected Abbot of
Tavistoke, [1031.] and from that Abbey, aduanced to the Bishoprick
of Creditune, by his grace with Canutus King of the Angles, obtayned
an annexion of Cornwall (lately fallen voyd) and so made one Dioces
of that and Deuon, as it hath euer since continued.
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