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)
Tre-wor-oc, also Tre-wor-ock, the town on a lake, was formerly the
lands of Trubody, who sold the same to Jackman, now in possession
thereof. In the church on seats or pews, pertaining to those Trubodys,
I have seen this inscription, Nati honoris; in what sense to be
construed is mystery to me, since I have not understood that any of
this tribe was either a son nobly born, or inherited to any kind of
honour, dignity, or promotion.
At Pennant in this parish, id est, the head of the valley, or the
valley head, in the open downs by the high road or street-way,
formerly stood a large flat moor-stone, about eight feet long, in
perpendicular manner, described by Mr. Carew and Mr. Camden, wherein
is still to be seen on the one side thereof this inscription, in Roman
Saxon letters, then in use when it was set up, containing these words:
doniert rogauit pro anima.
[Instead of the long and uninteresting account given by Mr. Hals of
this monument, I will take the liberty of substituting an extract from
Mr. Bond’s Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Boroughs of
East and West Looe, printed by J. Nichols and Son, Parliament Street,
in 1823, which will be found of a very different description.]
“Not far from Dosmery Pool may be seen a curious heap of
rocks, called Wring Cheese or Cheese Wring; and, at a short
distance therefrom, an artificial curiosity called the
Hurlers, and another called the Other-half-stone.
“Camden, in his Britannia, speaking of St. Neot’s parish,
says, ‘Near unto this, as I have heard, within the parish of
St. Cleer, there are to be seen, in a place called Pennant,
that is, the head of the vale, two monuments of stone; of
which the one in the upper part is wrought hollow, in manner
of a chair; the other, named Other-halfe-stone, hath an
inscription of barbarous characters, now in a manner worn
out,’ which he thinks should be read thus: DONIERT ROGAVIT
PRO ANIMA. As for this Doniert, Camden thinks he was that
prince of Cornwall whom the chroniclers name Dungerth, and
record that he was drowned in the year of our salvation 872.
Camden also says, ‘Hard by there is a number of good big
rockes heaped up together; and under them one stone of a
lesser size, fashioned naturally in form of a cheese, so as
it seemeth to be pressed like a cheese; whereupon it is
named Wring Cheese. Many other stones besides, in some sort
four-square, are to be seen upon the plain adjoining; of
which seven or eight are pitched upright of equal distances
asunder. The neighbouring inhabitants term them Hurlers, as
being by a devout and godly error persuaded, they had been
men sometime transformed into stones, for profaning the
Lord’s day with hurling the ball. Others would have it to be
a trophy (as it were) or a monument in memorial of some
battle. And some think verily they were set as mere stones
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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