The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
This manor of Men-hyn-yet, as I remember, was formerly the lands of
one Carmenow, a soldier or military man; by whose daughter and heir it
came first in marriage to Trelawny, in Edward the Fourth’s days.
Within the precincts of which lordship is situate the house and barton
of Poole, so called after the English from the natural circumstances
of the place; where, by reason of the level or evenness of the town
place, in winter season many lakes and pools of water stand. Of which
place thus speaks Mr. Carew, in his Survey of Cornwall: “Poole, for
its lowe and moyst seate, is not unaptly named, houseth Sir Jonathan
Trelawny, far beneath his worth and callinge. He marryed Sir Henry
Killigrew’s daughter, his father the coheir of Reskimer, his
grandfather Lamellyn’s inheritrix. His arms are Argent, a chevron
Sable, between three oak leaves Vert.”
There is a public fair held yearly in this church town, on June 11.
Ten-creek, Den-creek, in this parish, was formerly the lands and
possessions of Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, second
son of King John; who probably at some time lived at it (as also at
his castle of Leskeard), for in the old dilapidated houses of this
once famous fabric, I saw the ruins of a moorstone oven, about
fourteen foot diameter, in testimony of the hospitality once kept
here. And moreover, in the front of the castlewise moorstone gate, or
portal, I beheld his arms cut in stone; viz. within a bordure
bezantée, a lion rampant crowned, whose arms in colours I think ought
to be thus blazoned: ill port ung lyon rampant de Gowles, en Argent,
bordure de Sable, talentée.
Here groweth a sort of tree, bearing a strange sort of leaves and
fruit, or berries, not seen in any other part of Cornwall, and
therefore without name given it by me or others.
Tre-havock, in this parish, Cornish Saxon, id est, the hawk town, was
taxed in the Domesday Book, 1087, as the voke lands of a parish or
manor which now is suitably called after the Cornish English
Tre-hauke; for that it seems heretofore it was a place notable for
keeping, mewing, or breeding hawks (or for that those lands were held
by the tenure of paying hawks to its lord); from which place was
denominated an old family of gentlemen surnamed de Tre-hauke, who gave
for their arms, in a field Sable, a chevron between three hawks. It is
now in the possession of Peter Keckwich, Esq. descended from the
Keckwiches of Catch-French, as they were from the Keckwiches of Essex;
who give for their arms, Argent, two lions in bend passant Sable,
cottised Gules.
Cur-tuth-oll, lands as I am informed heretofore pertaining to the nuns
or nunnery of Clares, at Leskeard, according to the name thereof;
after whose dissolution, 32 Henry VIII. it came to Becket, who gave
for his arms, in a field Sable, a fess between three boar’s heads
couped, and six cross-crosslets fitchee Or; in memory of the
Archbishop.
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