GLUVIAS, a parish in the hundred of KERRIER,
county of CORNWALL, 5 a mile (E.) from Penryn, containing,
with the borough of Penryn, 3678 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of
Budock united, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of the Bishop of Exeter, rated in the king's books
at £21. 6, 10. The church is dedicated to St. Mary
Magdalene. On a moor called Glasenith, Walter
Bronescomb, Bishop of Exeter, about 1270, built a collegiate
church, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary
and St. Thomas of Canterbury, for a provost, a sacrist,
eleven prebendaries, seven vicars, and six choristers,
whose annual revenue at the dissolution was valued at
£205. 10. 6. Bohelland, in this parish, is said to have
been the scene of the murder of a son by his father,
which furnished the plot of Lillo's tragedy of " Fatal
Curiosity:" this unnatural event happened about 1618,
and the site of the house of the murderer is still pointed
out, but the name of the family has been consigned to
oblivion.