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)
From this place was denominated an old family of gentlemen surnamed De
Austell, of which family William de Austell was Sheriff of Cornwall 25
Henry VI. as also of Somerset and Dorset 27 and 28 of King Henry VI.;
who gave for his arms, Argent, a saltire raguled Vert, but in what
families the name, blood, and estate of those gentlemen are terminated
I know not, or where they dwelt. At the town of St. Austell, alias
Trenance, is weekly held upon Friday a considerable market, wherein is
vended all commodities necessary for the life of man at a reasonable
price.[11] Its also privileged 10th fairs or greater marts, on the
30th of November, Palm Sunday, and Thursday after Whitsunday, which
benefits were doubtless first obtained from the Earls of Cornwall, by
the Priors of Tywardreth aforesaid.
Treverbyn, alias Tre-verbin, in this parish, was the voke lands of
considerable manor long before the Norman Conquest, as appears from
the Domesday tax aforesaid (it signifies in Cornish the herb, rape,
root, or navew town, famous it seems in former ages for those
vegetables,) from which place was denominated that old and knightly
family of the Treverbins (who had there free chapel and burying place
here lately extant), and of public use before the Church of St.
Austell was erected; of which house was Walter Treverbyn, Sheriff of
Cornwall 1223, the successor of Reginald de Valletort 7 Henry III. who
had issue Sir Walter Treverbyn, Knight, who had a daughter married,
named Katherine, to Peter Prideaux, of Boswithgye in Luxsillian 10th
Edward II. From this Walter also lineally descended Sir Hugh
Treverbyn, Knight, tempore Henry VI. whose two daughters and heirs
were married to Edward Courtenay, of Boconnock or Haccomb, in Devon,
and Trevannion, of Caryhays, in whom the name, blood, and estate of
those Treverbins ended. But Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exon, and
Earl of Devon, forfeited one moiety of those lands to the Crown by
attainder of treason against that butcher of the branches of the house
of York, Henry VIII.; so that the same is now in copartnery between
the King of England and Trevanion.
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