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)
Pen-davy, or Pen-duffy, i. e. David’s head, (why so called, qu.?) a
head or promontory of land situate between the Alan and the Kestell
rivers, was formerly the lands of Kestell (and before that the Prior
of Bodmin’s, as I am informed); by Kestell’s daughter and heir it
passed in marriage to Nathaniel Moyle, Esq. barrister-at-law, of
Bakehouse, who for want of issue sold it to Mr. Ustick, now in
possession thereof.
Crone, Croan, in this parish, signifies a skin or hide of leather; so
called either from the tanner that made or sold leather here, or
rather for that this tenement consisteth _in quanto_ of a hide or skin
of land, viz. as much arable ground as one plough can cultivate in a
year, commonly reckoned about eighty statute acres. This barton was
formerly the lands of Roscarrock, by whom it was sold to Michael Hill,
Gent. by whose son, John Hill, Rector of St. Mabyn, it was sold to
Edward Hoblyn, Gent. attorney-at-law, a younger branch of the
Nanswhiddon family by the Hoblyns of Bodmin, now in possession
thereof. He is especially memorable for his saying, when first he
began to practice, “_that he would get an estate by the law_ one way
or other,” viz. right or wrong, and common fame saith he was as good
as his word, _in the worst[41] sense_. Whereupon, since his death,
by an unknown but arch hand, was fixed upon his grave in this parish
church this taunting epitaph:
Here lies Ned,
I am glad he’s dead,
If there must be another,
I wish ’twere his brother,
And, for the good of the Nation,
His whole relation.
Treg-leah, in this parish, i. e. the law town or dwelling, is the
lands of William Keckwitch, Gent. a younger branch of the Keckwitches
of Trehawke, and giveth for his arms, Argent, in bend two lions
passant Sable. It was since sold to Mr. Hoblyn.
In this parish is Castle Killy-biry, or Killy-biny, consisting of
about six acres of ground upon a well-advanced hill, within a treble
intrenchment of earth. Perhaps one of the castles possessed by that
arch-traitor the Pictish Mordred, slain by King Arthur, (see
DUNDAGELL,) from whence his soldiers were routed; for the circumstance
of this castle on the Alan river may agree with those verses mentioned
under Lentegles by Camelford, for the river Camel is properly called
the Alan river, as well as Camel.
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