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)
The manor of Trengreene, or Tregoryon, is the dwelling of Thomas
Carlyon, Gent. a branch of the Menagwins family, who has lately built
a very neat new house here, which being seated on a rising grround,
from whence there is a good prospect of the sea, and having a fruitful
spot of land around it, is as pleasant a seat as any in the
neighbourhood. His son Thomas has married Elizabeth, the eldest
daughter of Mr. Philip Hawkins, of Pennance, by whom he hath several
children. This last Thomas was in the commission of the peace, and
died in this present Jan. (1732) leaving his eldest son, Philip, a
minor. This property belonged in former times to the Bodregens.
THE EDITOR.
The popular legends of St. Blaze relate that he was most barbarously
lacerated with wool-combs, which sufficiently accounts for his having
been adopted as the patron of all persons concerned in the manufacture
of cloth.
There is an idle tradition of the exact spot where St. Blaze landed;
but it is quite certain that he never was in the west of Europe; nor
can any reason now be assigned for the selection of this saint, beyond
that of his general popularity. About the year 1774 a curious piece of
machinery was exhibited all over England, which represented the whole
manufacture of broadcloth, from the shearing of the wool to the last
operation of pressing. A small figure was actually at work on each
separate process; and over them all, as a general director, and
arrayed in his pontifical habit and mitre, appeared Bishop Blaze. He
is the patron of Ragusa.
The derivation of Carlyon from Richard Cœur de Lion, seems to be
equally puerile, unfounded, and absurd. Car, or Caer, is evidently a
fortified place; and Lyon must be one of those corruptions, more
common than any other, of a word which has lost its appropriate
meaning, into another word of a similar sound and in common use. The
arms of Carlyon are, Argent, a chevron Gules between three moor cocks
Sable, limbed and wattled Gules.
In modern times St. Blazey has acquired distinction by giving birth to
Ralph Allen, known over England as Mr. Allen of Bath. This gentleman
acquired a large fortune through the medium of conferring important
benefits on his country, and he employed it in promoting literature
and sciences on the most extensive scale. Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Gay,
were the inmates of his house. Warburton was mainly through his
influence advanced to the highest station in our church. And,
On all occasions was his hand held forth
At pity’s call to succour modest worth.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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