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)
Spaniardes, and 4 shippes of warre of Depe. The Spaniardes chac’d
hither the French men.
A mile and a half above the mouth of Truro Creke, caullid La Moran
Creke, of the church of _S. Moran_. This creke goith into the land a
quarter of a mile from the maine streme of the haven. The mayne
streame goith up 2 miles above Moran creeke, ebbing and flowing; and a
quarter of a mile above is the toune of _Tregony_, _vulgo_ Tregny.
Here is a bridge of stone _aliquot arcuum_ apon Fala ryver. Fala river
riseth a mile or more off Rochehille, and goith by Granborrow, [“Pons
grandis,” i. e. Granpound] wher is a bridge of stone over it.
_Graunpond_, a 4 miles from [Roche,] and 2 litle miles from Tregony.
Mr. Tregyon hath a maner place richely begon and amply, but not endid,
caullid _Wulvedon_, alias Goldoun. Fala ryver, is betwixt Graunpond
and Tregony.
From Tregony to passe doune by the body of the haven of Falamuth, to
the mouth of Lanyhorne creeke or pille on the south-est side of the
haven, is a 2 miles. This creke goith up half a mile from the
principale streame of the haven.
At the hed of this creeke standith the castelle of _Lanyhorne_,
sumtyme a castel of an 8 toures, now decaying for lak of coverture. It
longgid as principal house to the Archedecons. Thes landes descendid
by heires general to the best Corbetes of Shropshir, and to Vaulx of
Northamptonshir. Vaulx part syns bought by Tregyon of Cornewaul. From
Lanyhorne pille is a place or point of land of 40 acres or therabout
as a peninsula, and is caullid _Ardeuerameur_, and is a mile from
Lanyhorne creke; and the water or creke that cummith or rennith into
the south-south-est part is but a litle thyng, as of an half mile. The
creke that hemmith this peninsula up into the land, yn on the
west-south-west side, is the mayn land betwixt Crameur creke and this.
From the mouth of the west creke of this peninsula to S. Juste creeke
a 4 miles or more. From S. Juste pille or creeke to S. Mauditus creeke
is a mile dim.
The point of the land betwixt S. Juste creke and S. Maws is of sum
caullid Pendinas, and on this point stondith, as yn the entery of S.
Maws creek, a castelle or forteres late begon by the king.
[Vol. iii. p. 46. _Inscriptions made [by Leland] at the request of
Master Trewry at the Castelle of St. Maw’s._
Henricus Oct. Rex Angl. Franc. et Hiberniæ invictiss. me posuit
præsidium Reipubl. terrorem Hostib.
Imperio Henrici, naves, submittite vela.
Semper honos, Henrice, tuus laudesque manebunt.
Edwardus famâ referat factisque parentem.
Gaudeat Edwardo duce nunc Cornubia felix.]
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