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)
Mr. Trevanion married early in life, and was left a widower with
several children. He has for his second wife Miss Burdett, daughter of
the individual to whom the country mainly owes the great alteration in
the constitution of its government, on the ultimate effects of which
no one is yet qualified to form even a conjecture, still less an
opinion.
The family of Bettesworth have been settled on the manor of Fyning, a
part of Rogate parish in Sussex, since about the year 1570; and a
pedigree of nine descents is given in Dallaway’s History of the Rape
of Chichester, ending with Thomas Bettesworth, who assumed the name of
Bilson in 1740, and died in 1754, aged 58. This gentleman bequeathed a
life interest in his property to Thomas Bettesworth, of Chithurst, and
after his decease gave it to Henry Legge, fourth son of William Legge,
first Earl of Dartmouth, on condition of taking the name of Bilson.
Mr. Henry Bilson Legge married Mary Stawel, daughter and heir of
Edward Stawel, Lord Stawel, and was in consequence himself created
Lord Stawel in 1760. They were succeeded by their son Henry Stawel
Bilson Legge, who died in 1820.
The parish of Rogate is situated between Petersfield and Midhurst, on
the bank of a small river, which (after watering Selborne, a name made
familiar to every one by the admirable work of its vicar, Mr. White,)
flows into the county of Sussex, and joining the Arun, finally reaches
the sea through Arundale, a name mistaken by the Normans for that of a
swallow.
The manor of Fyning belonged to a monastery of Premonstratensian
Canons, founded at Dureford, an adjacent parish, about the year 1160,
by Henry Hosatus, or Husey, and augmented three hundred years
afterwards by Henry Guldeford. It was surrendered to King Henry the
Eighth, by John Simpson, the last superior. Temporary grants were made
of the lands, till they were finally bestowed in fee on Sir Edmund
Merwyn, a gentleman of Sussex, from whose descendants they passed to
the Bettesworths.
In the church of St. Michael Carhayes are several monuments to the
Trevanions, and pieces of armour, the trophies of former days; also a
sword, believed to have been the very one used by Sir Hugh Trevanion
at Bosworth Field.
Etymologies, deceptive at all times, become so in a tenfold degree
when they are sought in the varying pronunciations of an unwritten
language. But car, caer, &c. are known (like Rocca in the Italian) to
mean a fortress, a castellated house, a dwelling; and hay, running
colloquially into hayes, is an enclosed fence or yard. Carhayes may
therefore signify the castle surrounded by a basse court or enclosure.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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