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)
Part of this new parish of St. Keverne, at the time of the Norman
Conquest, was rated in the Domesday Book, 1087, under the jurisdiction
of Treleage (i. e. Physician or Surgeon’s Town, or the Law Town); it
is now the possession of Robert Buggin, Esq. (id est, Bacon) who
married Prudence, daughter of John Arundell of Trethall, Esq.; his
father, Jane, the daughter of Sir Francis Vyvyan, Knight, a younger
branch of Gatcomb House in Devon, originally descended from Zacharias
Boggan, Gent., Mayor of Totness, A.D. 1550, whose ancestors were
merchants of that town, and gave for their arms, Sable, a cocatrice
displayed Argent, membered and taloned Gules.
Note further, that as ker, kerr, kyr, kir, signifies dear, beloved,
choicely affectioned, in British, Cornish, and the Armorick languages,
answerable to dilectus in Latin; so from thence proceeds Kerryer, a
lover, or one dearly affectioned. See Floyd upon _dilectus_.
Tre-land in this parish (either the temple town, or a town notable for
land) was another district or manor, taxed in Domesday Roll; and I
take it, there are yet extant two tenements here called Tre-land Vear,
and Tre-land Vean; i. e. the greater and less Tre-lands. One of those
places, as I am informed, is the dwelling of John Hayme, Gent. (Saxon,
i. e. a house, home, or covering; see also Verstegan upon this word)
that married Tregose; his father Boggans.
In this parish is situate Condura and Tregarne, manors formerly
pertaining to Condura, Earl of Cornwall.
Lanareh, also Lan-arth, in this parish is the dwelling of Sampson
Sanns, Gent., that married Cood, which tenement or barton was formerly
the lands of Kensham, who sold it to the present possessors.
This Mr. Sanns died without legal issue about the year 1696, and left
his estate to his brother’s son, John Sanns, that married Hamley of
St. Neot, now in possession thereof, who in the month of January, in
the afternoon, in the year 1702, with seven other persons, men and
women of this parish, coming by sea from Falmouth town and harbour
towards their own homes in a fishing boat of about five tons burden,
without deck or covering, on a fair day; and having got off at sea
about a league beyond the said harbour, and within two leagues of
their dwelling to the west; suddenly there happened to arise a high
and mighty storm of wind against them, which rose the rapid waves of
the sea to that degree, that the boatmen or oarmen, with all their
skill or strength, were not able to put the boat further forward
without its being filled with water or swallowed up with the raging
sea.
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