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)
I take Thomas Moile, Esq. Speaker of Parliament 34th Henry VIII. 1543,
ancestor of the Moyles of Oxford and Kent, whose name, blood, and
estate is terminated in the Finches, to be a younger brother of this
family, or those of his.
Colt-dryn-ike, in this parish, i. e. dry neck lake, leate, or riveret
of waters, (perhaps so called from some lake or leate that intermits
its current in summer season,) is the dwelling of Jonathan Trelawney,
Esq. one of his Majesty’s Commissioners of the Peace, a younger branch
of the Trelawneys of Poole and Trelawne houses, and therefore giveth
the same arms which they do. Since the writing hereof this gentleman
is dead without issue; and his second brother, my very kind friend,
Major John Trelawney, Fort Major of the royal citadel of Plymouth,
succeeded to his estate.
Millin-ike, alias Melin-ike, i. e. the mill lake, leate, or bosom of
waters, (so called from some river and a mill heretofore thereon,) was
the dwelling of William Scawen, Esq. that died without issue.
The name Scawen is local, and signifies a place where skawan or elder
trees grow, (as I have said before,) and is derived from the
Japhetical Greek, σκοβιεμ, sambachus, ebulus, the elder-tree, who,
suitable to his name, gives for his arms, Argent, a scawen or
elder-tree Vert. This is an ancient and mere British family of
gentlemen, as their name implies.
Hendre, in this parish, (i. e. the old or ancient town,) is the
dwelling of the gentle family of the Hancocks; particularly William
Hancock, Esq.
Catch-French, in this parish, was the seat of the Keckwitches,
originally descended from the Keckwitches of Essex, gentlemen
heretofore also of considerable estates in those parts, now by ill
conduct wasted, so that this barton was sold by John Keckwitch, Esq.
temp. Charles II. to Hugh Boscawen, Esq. who settled it upon his
daughter Bridget, married to Hugh Fortescue, of Filley, Esq. now in
possession thereof. George Keckwitch, Esq. of this house, was Sheriff
of Cornwall 17th of Elizabeth, as was also his son George Keckwitch,
Esq. 33d of Elizabeth. He was also a Commissioner of the Peace temp.
James I. who gave for his arms, Argent, two lions on a bend Sable,
coticed Or.
TONKIN.
The town of St. German’s lieth to the southward of Port Eliot, but
adjoining with it, and between that and Cuddenbeck: but as Browne
Willis, in his Notitia Parliamentaria, has given a particular
description of this town and parish, of which he was the most capable,
having married his lady out of it, I shall here insert what he has
said thereof:
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