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Well, Jon, St Levan church is pretty rude and simple. (I left the pillar in,
hoping someone would notice!) Given the way the Deanery of St Buryan was
milked by the Crown it's a wonder St Levan is still there.
I have no mediaeval names at all for the church. You may recall that St
Levan was for most purposes a dependent chapel of St Buryan, which was a Deanery
and a Royal Peculiar, stolen by the Crown c 1300. The Duke of Cornwall or
the King used it to provide their Clerks with an income. The chief surviving
records, such as they are, date from the decade when King's College Cambridge
held the Deanery, and are tithe lists -- very nice, but irrelevant here.
For the rest, all there is is what amounts to an incomplete list of Deans and
Prebendaries, all non-resident (mostly not even resident in Cornwall, let
alone St Buryan, and forget St Levan). There is a William Alsa, priest, listed
in St Levan the 1820s (eventually he was hanged after the Prayer Book
Rebellion, Vicar of Gulval by then), but the expert opinion is that when he was in St
Levan he was a freelance, possibly a guild priest. I'd like to think he was
the curate, but there are few grounds for that. Nothing else.
Susan, who lives at what was called Alsa, and likes to think of William
being here
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