┌──────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │JOHN RASHLEIGH LIVED YEARS │THE DEVONSHIRE HOUSE YET │ │ THREESCORE THREE │ RASHLEIGH’S HEIGHT │ │ AND THEN DID YIELD TO DIE, │ WELL SHOWETH FROM WHENCE │ │ HE DID BEQUEATH HIS SOUL TO │ HE CAME, │ │ GOD │ HIS VIRTUOUS LIFE IN FOWEY │ │ HIS CORPSE HEREIN TO LIE. │ TOWN │ │ │ DESERVETH ENDLESS FAME. │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ LANYON HE DID TAKE TO WIFE, BY HER HAD CHILDREN STORE, YET AT HIS DEATH BUT DAUGHTERS SIX, ONE SON, HE HAD NO MORE: ALL THEM TO PARTAKE UNDER HERE, BECAUSE FIT SPACE WAS NONE, THE SON WHOSE ONLY CHARGE THIS WAS, IS THEREFORE SET ALONE. There are also several other memorials of the Rashleigh and the Trespy families in this church. On an eminence near the church, is _Place_ or _Trespy House_, a very antient building, and which is said to have been partly rebuilt in the reign of Henry VI., by one of the Trespy family. It is an interesting building and displays some rich Gothic work on the southern front; yet has been greatly altered by modern improvements. The owner, J. T. Austen, Esq., is a gentleman of considerable ability, and has furnished Mr. Lysons with much information respecting this county. The _Harbour_ of Fowey is spacious and well secured from the destructive effects of storms, by the hills encircling it; and on rising ground near the sea, are the remains of two _Towers_, said to have been erected in the reign of Edward IV. There are also two other embattled square _Towers_ on each side the harbour, now fast mouldering to decay, and which in former times supported a chain across its entrance. Fowey, like many other sea-port towns in early times, has suffered much during the wars: at present its chief dependance is on the pilchard fisheries. Other kinds of fish are also to be purchased in season, at very reasonable rates, and the river abounds with fine salmon. On the opposite side of the river, is POLRUAN, said by Leland, to have been in former times, a place of considerable note; but now it consists only of a few picturesque cottages. The ruins of an antient _Chapel_ and an _old well_, surmounted by a stone cross. _Menabilly_, about three miles west of Fowey, the seat of William Rashleigh, Esq. late M.P. and Sheriff for the county, in the year 1820, is a neat edifice of moor stone. The southern or principal front, commands a view of the sea, but it is chiefly remarkable as containing a very valuable cabinet of minerals,[6] and said to be the finest in England. There are also many other curiosities in the house, and a few fine drawings and portraits.