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 other sixth, or half of the said third, came through several
hands, which I have not been able to get a true account of, to one
Thomas Carter, of Dartmouth in Devon, and he sold it 22 Car. I. to
John Tregea of St. Agnes, who haxing acquired a pretty estate by tin,
and taken a lease of Vyvyan’s two thirds, and Gregor’s sixth, settled
himself here, and began to build upon it; but, dying soon after, he
left it to finish to his son, Captain William Tregea; who having
married Mary, the daughter of Richard Cross of Bromfield, in Somerset,
esq. by whom he had no surviving issue, he soon after her death run
out a handsome estate, partly left him by his father, and partly of
his own acquiring; and in 1694 sold his right in this barton to
Michael Tonkin of Penwenick, gent.; after which he went into the army,
and was some time a captain in the late Lord Mohun’s regiment. He died
in London or near it in 1730, and gave for his arms, Azure, three
boar’s heads couped Argent. Michael Tonkin parted with it again in
1702, to the writer hereof, who had settled himself here on his
marriage in 1699, where he lived during his father’s life, being as
pleasant a seat as any in those parts, especially for all country
exercises of hunting, fishing, and fowling, the fine downs round it,
and the moors under, abounding in game.
THE MANOR OF LAMBOURN.
To the east of Lambrigan and contiguous, is Lambourn, which gives name
to this lordship, and which is held partly from Tywarnhaile, and
partly from Tywarnhaile Tyes. I take the name to be a softening of
_Lan Bron_, the hill inclosure, and so it is written in old deeds, and
the situation agrees with it.
This was the seat, and gave name to a considerable and knightly
family. Sir John de Lambron, temp. Hen. III. (Exeter Reg.) gave
Caerkief, in this parish, to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and they
still enjoy it. John de Lambron (Carew, fol. 51) was one of the men ad
arma, 17 Edw. II. Sir John de Lambron, (idem, fol. 52) I suppose his
son, was one of those who had £20 lands of rents or more, in the
county of Cornwall, 25 Edw. III. (as the former John is certified to
have had £40); and was summoned to attend the King at London, the next
Sunday after the Octave of St. John the Baptist, and to go with him in
the parts beyond sea. The next that I meet with, and the last of his
family, was William Lamborn (Heralds’ Office) who had only one
daughter and heir, married temp. Henry V. to Sir John Arundell of
Lanhearne, and called Amara, who brought the whole estate into that
family. Their arms were, Argent, a fess between two chevrons Sable.
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