The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Cannall-Lidgye in this parish is the voke lands of a considerable
manor, now in several persons’ hands; much of those lands being in
possession of Boscawen as I take it; the high rents are in Hart. As
part of the same, is the possession and birthplace of my very kind
friend and neighbour Thomas Carthew, Esq. Barrister-at-Law, who by his
indefatigable study and labour, first in the inferior practice of the
law under Mr. Tregena, without being a perfect Latin grammarian,
always using the English words for matters or things in his
declarations, where he understood not the Latin; who was at length, by
a mandamus from the Lord Keeper North, called to the bar, and the
generous practice of the law for some years, when afterwards in the
latter end of the reign of King William the Third, he had a call for
being made a Sergeant-at-Law, under which circumstance he grew into
such great fame and reputation that he is likely to make a
considerable addition of riches to his paternal estate.
He married North, a relation to the Lord Keeper North aforesaid; his
father, Baker, of Lanteglos, by Fowey; his grandfather Lawry; and
giveth for his arms, Argent, a chevron Azure, between three ducks
Proper. The name is local, compounded of Car-dew, or Car-thew, i. e.
Rock Black in this parish. Long since the writing hereof, those his
lands of Canaligye are all sold by Mr. Carthew’s son and heir to two
of the brothers of Trebilliocks.
Trevance in this parish, i. e. the town upon the rising or advanced
land, is the dwelling of Richard Harris, Gent. that married Vivyan, of
Tollskidy; his father Moyle.
Tre-vor-ike in this parish, [Pryce, in his Archæologia Cornu-Britannica
says, Ick I take to signify either a creek, rivulet, or brook, as
Trevorick, the town or the brook. Whitaker.] is the dwelling of
William Cornish, Gent. that married Cornish, his father Tonkyn;
originally descended from one William Cornish that settled here
tempore Queen Mary, a Welshman. To this place belongs a sea-mill, a
healing or slate stone quarry, and a lime kiln, commonly made in
jointure to those gentlemen’s wives, to win whom in marriage this
argument amongst others was commonly used,
She that will this Squire marry,
Shall have the mill, the kill, and the quarry;
now all spent and wasted by ill conduct, and those lands sold to a
relation of his surnamed Cornish, or some other.
At Carthew, or Legarike, in this parish, is a considerable lead or
copper mine in the lands of Bearford or Bond; wherein many labouring
tinners are much employed as miners, and reap much benefit thereby, as
well as the lords of the lands or soil thereof.
TONKIN.
Mr. Tonkin has not any thing in addition to what is transcribed from
Mr. Hals.
THE EDITOR.
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