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)
About twenty years past, the sexton of this parish sinking a grave
four feet deep in the ground, he met with a large flat marble or other
stone, which he lifted up out of the earth, on which was cut or
engraved a long plain cross, surmounted on four grieces or steps; on
the border of this stone, round the said cross, was an inscription in
Norman French, which soundeth thus in English:――“Clarice, the wife of
Geffery de Bolleit, lies here; whosoever shall pray for her soul shall
have ten days’ pardon. Amen.”[23] There is a place still extant in
this parish called Bolait, or Bolaith, i. e. a place of slaying or
killing cows, kine, or cattle; otherwise it may be interpreted cow’s
milk, or a place notable for the same.
Trove, in this parish, is, in Cornish and Armorick, a dent, pit, a
cavern, or valley: a name doubtless taken from the natural and
artificial circumstances of the place, situate between two hills, on a
cavern; also Trewoofe, that is to say the town or dwelling of ob-yarn,
such as the sail-spinsters make, in order to be woof, or woven cross
the warp in pieces of cloth, stuff, or serges, from whence was
denominated a family of gentlemen named Trewoofe; who, out of a
mistaken etymology of their name, (as many others in Cornwall,) gave
for their arms, in a field ―――― three wolves’ heads; whereas,
try-bleith, try-bleit, is three wolves in Cornish; the heiress of
which family was married to Leveale, temp. Henry VIII. of the old
Norman race, whose posterity flourished here in good fame for several
descents, till, for want of issue male, Lewis Leveale’s daughter and
heir, by Cooke of Tregussa, carried this place, together with herself
in marriage, to Mr. Uspar or Vospar, temp. Charles I. who had issue
Arthur Vosper, his son and heir, who married Eyans, of Eyanston in
Oxfordshire, who had issue by her two daughters, married to Mr. Marke
of Woodhill and Mr. Dennis of Leskeard. This last gentleman, Mr.
Vospur, bathing himself in the river Isis in Oxfordshire, with other
young men, was there unfortunately drowned, about the year 1679. The
name Vosper or Vospur, in British-Cornish, signifies a pure or
immaculate maid or virgin. The arms of Leveale were three calves or
veals.
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