Transcript

of

Exeter Episcopal Register (Lacy, Part II)

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. IX, (January 1916 to January 1917), p.61.

by

J-F Chanter

Prepared by Michael Steer

Association member Rev John Frederick Chanter was a keen local historian and was reasonably well published. His Note calls attention to an error concerning the very early rectors of the parish that appeared in the then recently published Devon & Cornwall Record Society’s volume on Bishop Lacy. Heritage listed St Peter’s Church has a list of successive rectors stretching back to the early Middle Ages. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. This extract, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.  These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Note 58. Exeter Episcopal Register (Lacy, Part II). — In the new volume of Lacy just issued by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, on p. 434, first line, occurs the name: John, Rector of Byry (Berrynarbor), and a footnote is appended that William Brownynge was instituted Rector in 1430 (Lacy, p. 128) but it is not stated in succession to whom. This note should be amended. John, Rector of Byry, was John Lynde, though there is no record of his institution. In Brantyngham's Register, p. 884, there is a record that John Lynde, Rector of Berry-Narbor, was ordained accolite 24 Sep., 1390; he held the living for a long period and was Penitentiary for Sherwell Deanery during almost the whole of Stafford's Episcopate, as well as part of Lacy's. See my list of Rectors of Berry-Narbor, in Dioscesan Gazette for 1910, p. 181. 

J- F. Chanter.