The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
The 12 Edward I. this manor, in the extent of Cornish acres, was
valued in fifteen. (Carew, fol. 46 b.)
THE EDITOR.
Withiel does not present any thing in addition to what has been said
of it.
Mr. Lysons does not give any information of the least interest
respecting property in the parish. The larger portion belongs to the
Vyvyans of Trelowarren, as well as the advowson. A younger brother of
that family, the Rev. Vyal Vyvyan, is the present incumbent, and this
gentlemen has greatly improved the house.
There is a monument in the church to the Reverend Richard Trewren, his
wife, and two daughters, one the widow of Mr. Ustick of Pendavey,
which place he sold to the Molesworths of Peranrow. Mr. Trewren was a
brother of the family of Tredreva in Constantine: he married Catherine
Davies, a sister of the Editor’s grandfather.
This parish measures 2,517 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2,109 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 72 5 0
Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 283 | 299 | 339 | 406
giving an increase of 43½ per cent. in 30 years.
Present Rector, the Rev. Vyell Francis Vyvyan, presented by his
brother Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart, in 1825. The net income of the
living returned in 1831 was 324_l._
THE GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE.
This parish has the same geological structure as St. Wenn, to which it
adjoins.
[23] This is a more recent insertion.
ZENNAR.
HALS.
Zennar is situated in the hundred of Penwith, and hath upon the north
the Irish sea, north-east Tywidneck, south Maddarne. For the name, if
it be compounded of Sen-nar, it signifies Holy Pool or Lake;
otherwise, if it be a corruption of Se-nar or Seynar, English Cornish,
it signifies the sea lake, or creek of the sea; and the church is
situated in a valley near the sea, with a rivulet of water flowing by
it.
At the time of the Norman Conquest, this district was taxed under the
jurisdiction of Trenwith, or of Alvorton. When the first inquisition
into the value of Cornish Benefices was made, this church was not
endowed, if extant; however, in Wolsey’s Inquisition (1521), it was
rated by the name of Zennor or Sennor £5. 5_s._ The patronage in the
Bishop of Exeter. This parish was rated to the four shillings in the
pound Land Tax in 1696, for one year, at £86. 10_s._
This church, I take it, was endowed by the Prior of St. Michael’s
Mount, and was formerly wholly impropriate. This parish is
comparatively scattered all over with stones and rocks of great
bigness; yet amongst those are found very many fertile plots of ground
for corn, grass, and barley, as also many tin lodes, tending to the
great profit of the farmers and tinners thereof.
In this parish are the ruins of an old free chapel called Chapel Jane,
that is the narrow chapel.
TONKIN.
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