The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
[19] The whole of Mount Calvary, with a translation by Mr.
John Keigwin, made in the year 1682, has been printed by the
Editor of this work from a manuscript in the Bodleian
Library at Oxford. The passage above cited occurs in the
44th and 45th stanzas. The general meaning appears to be the
same, but the words are differently spelt and divided. The
Editor has also printed “The Creation of the World, with
Noah’s Flood,” a Play, or Mystery, in the Cornish language,
and a Translation into English by the same Mr. John Keigwin;
both from the office of Mr. Nichols, No. 25,
Parliament-street, London, the printer of this work.
ST. BRADOCK.
HALS.
St. Bradock is situate in the Hundred of West, and has upon the south
Boconock, the west St. Wennow, east St. Pynnock, north Cardinham, and
by this name Bradock or Brodock it was taxed in the Domesday Roll. If
its etymology is Saxon the name means broad oak.
In the Pope’s Inquisition into the value of benefices before
mentioned, anno 1294, Capella de Bradock in decanatu de Westwells,
appropriata domui de Lanceston, was valued at xiii_s._ iv_d._; from
whence it appears that this church was endowed by the college of St.
Stephen, near Launceston. In Wolsey’s Inquisition and Valor
Beneficiorum, at viii_l._ xiii_s._ iv_d._ The patronage in the Bishop
of Exeter; and this parish was rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax
for one year in 1696 at 57_l._
TONKIN.
This church is a vicarage; the patronage in Samuel Wetton, Esq.; the
incumbent, Mr. James Pearce, who has also the sheaf.
The manor of Bradoke is one of the two hundred and eighty given by the
Conqueror to Robert Earl of Morton.
THE EDITOR.
This living, which is stated in the Liber Valorum to be a rectory, was
consolidated with Boconnoc in the year 1742, and the clergyman’s
residence has recently been removed to Bradock. The united parishes
are now in the presentation of Lord Grenville.
Bradock down was the scene of two important events in the civil war.
First, a victory obtained by the King’s forces early in 1623 under the
command of Sir Bevill Granville, Sir Nicholas Glenning, Sir Ralph
Hopton, Arundell, Trevanion, and other gentlemen of the county, over a
much larger force commanded by Ruthven, Governor of Plymouth. The
victory was so complete that Ruthven with difficulty reached Saltash,
accompanied by a few only of his troops, from whence they were
speedily driven across the Tamar; and this advantage mainly
contributed to the more splendid victory at Stratton, obtained on the
16th of May of the same year; a victory which, rolling on its tide of
success through Devonshire and Somersetshire, over Lansdowne and
Bristol, might have swept the whole of England but for the recoil of
its waves from the walls of Gloucester.
The second event was on a more extensive scale.
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