The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4) — John Shaqi
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)
In this parish or manor, as I take it, stands Intsworth, alias
Inis-worth, synonymous words signifying an island of worth, price, or
value, viz. a peninsular formed by rivers of water, which leaves
between them an angled or three-cornered promontory of land, called in
British inis, signifying the same as amnicus mediamnis in Latin. See
Gluvias. This place, before the Norman Conquest, was the land of
Condura and Cradock, Earls of Cornwall, by one of whose daughters or
granddaughters, Agnes, it came by marriage to Reginald Fitz-Harry,
base son of King Henry I. by Anne Corbet; who, in her right, long
after William Earl of Cornwall, of the Norman race, forfeited the same
to the King by attainder of treason, was made Earl thereof, from whose
heirs it passed to the Dunstanvills and Valletorts; and by Valletort’s
daughter Joan, the widow of Sir Alexander Oakston, Knt. who turned
concubine to Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, who had by
her a sole daughter named Joan, married to Richard Champernowne, a
second son of Sir ―――― Champernowne, of Clift Champernowne, in Devon,
in whose posterity it remained till Henry VII.’s days, when, his issue
male failing, his three daughters and heirs were married to Monk,
Fortescue, and Trevillian, from some of whose heirs it came by
purchase to Edward Nosworthy, Esquire, Member of Parliament for
Saltash, son of Edward Nosworthy, merchant and shopkeeper in Truro,
temp. Charles II. who married Hill of that place, as his son aforesaid
did Maynard and Jennings. The arms of Nosworthy are (see St. Stephen’s
by Saltash). The name Nos-worthy signifies a “night of worth,” price
or value so called, for that the first propagater thereof was born by
night, or was notable for some profitable fact done at that season.
And John Nosworthy was steward of Exon 1521.
TONKIN.
East Anthony. Mr. Carew hath given a full account how this manor came
to his family (p. 244 of Lord Dunstanville’s edition); I shall
therefore only take notice here that the present Lord of East Anthony,
so called in respect of its situation from the church, is Sir William
Carew, a gentleman that in every respect comes up to the merits of the
greatest of his ancestors. He married the Lady Anne Coventry, only
daughter and heir of Gilbert Earl of Coventry, by whom he hath one
son, Coventry Carew, Esq. He had also a daughter, Anne, who died in
the bloom of her age. Sir William Carew hath lately built a stately
house here of Penteran stone; and hath adorned it with gardens, &c.
suitable to it. From the bowling-green above the house is a beautiful
prospect of the river, and of all the country round.
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