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)
The church is situated at the south-east end of the parish, near that
branch of Falmouth haven called Mylor pool. It is but a small
building, consisting of a nave, one aisle of the same length, with a
handsome north cross aisle, belonging to Carclew; and a little
distance from the west is a low square campanile covered with slate,
in which are three bells.
THE EDITOR.
Mr. Tonkin seems to have fallen into an error respecting the valuation
of this living in the taxation of Pope Nicholas; which he says was £6.
8_s._ 4_d._ But no name in the least degree resembling Milor, can be
found under Kerrier hundred in the parliamentary publication of that
record, nor is any parish rated at that sum.
The church contains several monuments. The most interesting is one of
marble, placed there to the memory of her father, mother, and husband,
by Jane, the heiress of the Bonithon family, and widow of Samuel
Kempe, who built the house at Carclew, and died on the 20th of October
1728, in the 59th year of his age.
There is also a monument to Francis Trefusis, who died in 1680,
decorated by handsome sculpture. And one to the memory of Edward
Baynton Yescombe, esq. who fell while he was bravely defending the
King George, Lisbon packet, against the enemy, in August 1803. And
another executed by the celebrated artist Mr. Westmacott, to the
memory of Reginald Cocks, youngest son of Charles Cocks, Lord Somers,
and Anne his wife, sister of the late Mr. Reginald Pole Carew.
Carclew was devised by Jane Kempe to her relation Mr. James Bonithon,
of Grampound, from whom it was purchased by Mr. Lemon in 1749, who
immediately began to finish the house, and to complete the whole as a
family residence on the scale appropriate to every thing that he
undertook. Here Mrs. Lemon resided after she became a widow, and here
the family have resided ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon had an only son
William Lemon, who married Anne, daughter of Mr. John Willyams, of
Carnanton. Both died in early life, leaving three children.
William, born Oct. 6, 1748, who succeeded his grandfather in 1760,
married Jane, daughter of James Buller, of Morvall, esq. was elected
member of Penryn, on the decease of Mr. Francis Basset in 1769, and at
the general election of 1774 succeeded in a contest to represent the
county, which, universally esteemed and respected, he continued to do
by ten subsequent unanimous elections, during a period of fifty years,
up to his decease on the 11th of December 1824. This gentleman was
created a Baronet, and commanded for several years the county militia.
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