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)
Tremada in this parish signifies the extasy or transport town, alias
Tremodart, that is, the dart or javelin affliction (as Cornish-English
for hobel is a dart). This barton and manor, as I am informed, was the
dwelling of the Col-shills, id est, neck-shields; so called from their
wearing, in time of battle, their shield or coat armour with a ribbon
about their neck, originally denominated from Colshill parish, in
Arden hundred, in Warwickshire. And in particular here lived John
Collshill, sheriff of Cornwall 16 Rich. II. 1393; John Collshill was
sheriff of Cornwall 21 Richard II.; John Colshill was sheriff of
Cornwall 17 Henry VI.; John Collshill, Knt. was sheriff of Cornwall 7
Edward IV., whose issue male dying, his inheritance fell amongst his
two daughters, married to Seyntaubyn and Arundell (a younger branch of
the Arundells of Trerice), now in possession thereof, that married
Kelland: his father Drew; and giveth the same arms as the Arundells of
Trerice. The lords of this manor and barton of Tremadah, I suppose,
founded and endowed the vicarage and rectory church of Dulo. Perhaps
the Collshills, since their posterity aforesaid, have long been
patrons thereof. Their manor of Manley Collshill is in St. Veepe. This
gentleman is dead, and the family extinct.
West-north, or rather north-west, is the voke-lands of a dismembered
manor, formerly belonging to the Kendalls of Treworgye, and was by one
of them, temp. Edward IV. given with his daughter in marriage with
Kellyow; whose only daughter and heir was married to ―――― Bastard, a
barrister-at-law, temp. Hen. VIII. which brought this then undivided
manor into that family, who seated themselves therein for several
generations, till Sir William Bastard, Knt. sold it to John Antis,
Gent. Register of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall, now in possession
thereof. Bastard’s arms are painted in several glass windows of this
house, together with divers matches or quarterings; whose arms are,
Or, a chevron Azure. The arms of Kellyow are, Or, a chevron between
two cinquefoils and a mullet Sable.
Trenant in this parish, id est, the valley-town, is the seat of ――――
Medhop, Gent. whose father married Porter. His grandfather, rector of
St. Martin’s by Looe; his great grandfather, rector of the same
parish; which gentlemen, as I am informed, are lineally descended from
the Mydhops of Essex, some of whose ancestors gave lands in
frank-almoine to the Abbey of Furneaux there, 1290, viz. Roger de
Mydhop, son and heir of Henry de Mydhop, who gave for his arms,
Ermine, a lion rampant Azure, crowned Or. See GWILLIM, p. 195.
Tre-wenn, in this parish, id est, the white town, or town-white, is
the dwelling of William Dandy, Gent. attorney-at-law, that got a
considerable estate in that profession. Since the writing of the above
this estate is much impaired, and gone out of the direct to the
collateral heir, of the name of Dandy; which name signifies in
Cornish, deadly, cruel, mortal, fatal.
TONKIN.
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