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)
This parish contains 5,051 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 5094 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 901 5 0
Population, {in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 704 | 821 | 779 | 928
giving an increase of about 31 per cent. in 30 years.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
The structure of this parish is not well explored; where-ever the
rocks make their appearance, they are found to belong to the
calcareous series.
DUNDAGELL, ALIAS DYNDAGELL, ALIAS BOSITHNEY.
HALS.
Is situate in the hundred of Lesnewith, and hath upon the north, the
Irish sea; east, Trevalga; south, Lantegles; west, St. Teth. For the
etymology of the first compound word, it signifies the safe, secure,
or impregnable fort or fortress; for the second, safe, secure,
impregnable, or invincible man; or a man so fortified, magnified, or
fenced, by art or nature, that he was not liable to hurt or danger,
referring perhaps to the King or Earl of Cornwall, whose fort or
castle it was; as also the manor of Dundagell, contiguous therewith,
privileged with the jurisdiction of a court leet, and other marks of
grandeur over the adjacent country, still pertaining to the Duke of
Cornwall.
In the Domesday Roll, 20 William I. (1087), this place was taxed under
the name of Dune-cheine. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln
and Winchester, 1294, Ecclesia Dundagell, alias Bosithney, was valued
viii_l._ the vicar iiii_l._ vi_s._ viii_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition
1521, it was valued 8_l._ 11_s._ 2½_d._ the patronage in the Duke of
Cornwall. The incumbent ―――― Chilcott. The rectory in possession of
――. The parish of Dundagell rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax,
1696, which comprehends the boroughs of Trebennen and Bosithney,
200_l._ 4_s._, which from thence appears to be only adjectives, and
fallen upon the parish, as several other boroughs in Cornwall are.
Those boroughs have a weekly market, and a fair on October 8 yearly.
Trebennen, in the Exchequer, signifies the woman’s town, alias
Trevenna, the spring, marsh, or well of water town.
The arms of these united towns are, King Arthur’s Castle of Dundagell,
port open, on the top three turrets or watch towers. They are
privileged with a court leet, and a mayor chosen annually by a jury
out of the sworn free members, as also with sending two members to sit
in the Commons House of Parliament, elected by the freemen of the
borough that have lands of inheritance there. And the parliament
precept from the sheriff, as also the writ to remove an action from
this court to a superior, must be thus directed:――“Majori et
Burgensibus nostris de Trebennen, alias Bosinny,” otherwise “Majori et
Burgensibus Burgi nostri de Trevenna, alias Bosythny, in comitatu
Cornubiæ, salutem.”
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