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)
Speed and Dugdale, in their Monasticon Anglicanum, tell us that at its
dissolution, 26 Henry VIII. it consisted only of four prebends, whose
revenues were valued only at 89_l._ 15_s._ from whence it appears five
prebendary’s rents were dismembered from it before that time; and
since its suppression the lands of those four prebends have passed
from the crown to Louis, from Louis to Goldingham, from Goldingham to
Lutterell, now in possession thereof.
The vicarage church of Crantock is commonly called lan-guna, or
lan-gona, that is to say the hay temple or church; and is, suitable to
its name, situate in a large hay meadow of very rich land, containing
about three acres, where, by ancient custom the vicar’s cattle
depasture over the dead bodies interred therein.
Tre-ganell, or Tre-gonell, in this parish, that is to say, the canal
or channel town, situate upon a creek of the north sea, gave name and
original to an old family of gentlemen surnamed Tregonell or
Treganell, whose three daughters and heirs, tempore James I. were
married to Bauden, Pallamonter, and Penpoll, who gave for their arms,
in a field Argent, three Ogresses between two cottices in fess Sable,
as many Cornish daws Proper.
John Tregonell, or Treganell,――of his posterity (now transnominated to
Tregonwell), was a younger brother of this house, tempore Henry VII.
who had his first education in this college of Crantock at a cheap
rate, (as any may be had at Aberdeen or Glasgow in Scotland,) from
whence he went to Oxford, and proceeded so far in book-erudition as to
take his degree of Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law, and acquired
such perfection and fame therein, that he was chosen proctor for Henry
VIII. in that costly divorce betwixt him and Queen Catherine of Spain;
by whom he was also knighted, and for his labour and pains therein had
a pension of 40_l._ per annum settled upon him during his life; and
afterwards, upon the resignation of that annuity, and the payment of a
thousand pounds, he had by that king settled upon him and his heirs
the site and demesne of Midleton, a mitred abbey in Dorset, of great
value, which his posterity enjoy to this day, himself being buried in
Midleton church 1540. He had issue John, afterwards knighted, sheriff
of Dorset, 1 Philip and Mary; who married ――――, and had issue John
Tregonell, Esq. sheriff of Dorset 2 James I., who also married ――――,
and had issue John Tregonell, Esq. sheriff of that county 15 James I.,
when Francis Vyvyan, Esq. was sheriff of Cornwall.
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