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)
At Ten-Creek, or Tene-Cruck, i. e. the fire-bank, or tumulus, viz. the
sepulchre of one interred there before the sixth century, whose body
was burnt to ashes by fire, according to the then accustomed manner of
intering the dead, and his bones and ashes laid up in an urn or
earthen pot, in a bank, or barrow, or tumulus, upon some part of the
lands of this barton; from which facts it was called Ten-creek, in
which place for many ages flourished a family of gentlemen, from
thence denominated de Tencreek (which compound word Mr. Carew, in his
Survey of Cornwall, by conjecture interprets as the town of the
burrow, bank, or tumulus); the last gentleman of which house died in
the middle of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, leaving issue only three
daughters, married to Mohun, Penwarne, and Polwhele. Those lands came
to Mohun, a younger brother to Reginald Mohun, Bart. father of John
Lord Baron Mohun, of Oakhampton. The present possessioner, William
Mohun, Esq. (my very kind friend), one of his Majesty’s Commissioners
for the Peace and Taxes, that married Jane, daughter of Sir John
Trelawney, of the Lawne, Bart. and hath issue Warwick Mohun, Esq.
whose arms are, Or, a cross engrailed Sable. [See BOCONNOC]. The arms
of Tencreek were, Argent, a cross pattée surmounted of a chevron
Sable.
Pennans, part of the Duchy manor of Tybesta, is compounded of
Pen-nans, the head of the valley, a name taken from the natural
circumstances of the place. It is the dwelling of Philip Hawkins,
Gent. attorney-at-law, who by his great pains, care, and skill in that
profession, hath got himself a very great estate in those parts. He
married Scobell, and giveth for his arms, Argent, on a saltire Sable,
five fleur-de-lis Or. The same coat armour is given by the Hawkins’ of
Kent. He had issue John, his eldest son, who married Rashleigh, and
was a doctor of divinity; Philip, that married Ludlow, of London,
Member of Parliament for Grampound; and daughters.
Nan-tell-an, in this parish Duchy, was the dwelling of John Vincent,
Gent. attorney-at-law, who got a considerable estate by the law; but
since his death I take it this place, and all other his lands, are
wasted by his son, &c. Nantellan sold to Henry Vincent, of Treleven,
Esq. Mr. Vincent married Evans, and giveth for his arms as mentioned
under St. Allen, the original tribe thereof.
Car-lyn-ike, in this parish, parcel of the Duchy manor of Tybesta
aforesaid, probably the rock and lake of water, is the dwelling of
John Woolrige, Gent. that married Maunder, and giveth for his arms,
Gules, a chevron Argent, between three wild ducks volant Proper. The
descendant of Woolridge, rector of St. Michael Penkivell, temp. James
I.
Nan-car (Duchy) i. e. the Valley Rock, or the Rock in the Valley, is
the dwelling of Walter Quarme, Clerk, that married Grace Gayer,
daughter of Samuel Gayer, of Araler, Gent.; his father Ceely, his
grandfather a Trefusis, and giveth for his arms, Barry lozengy Argent
and Gules.
TONKIN.
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