There is little connected with Towednack of any curiosity, that does not refer to the Editor and his family. I am possessed of a manor still extending into five parishes, of which the vokeland, to use Mr. Hals’s term, was Amellibrea in this parish. It has descended to me from the Noyes, and particularly from my direct ancestor William Noye, the Attorney-General. I have the Court Rolls in complete succession for nearly three centuries. On these Rolls the names of Godolphin, Grylls, Mahun, Praed, St. Aubyn, Veal, occur with others as free tenants, and a great number of persons held by copy of Court Roll. At Amellibrea are the remains of an extensive foundation said by tradition to have formerly supported a prison. But the free tenants have been lost, and the copyholds converted into leases for life, as indeed has been the case generally over Cornwall, with the exception of ecclesiastical property; the copyholds not being renewable on the payment of a fine not exceeding two years’ value, as is the custom over most parts of England, but dependent wholly on the pleasure of the lord. The tenures were therefore in themselves much the same; and as I remember to have heard, the tenants preferred chattle property, as they termed it, to copyhold, in consequence probably of the uniform rules of succession and the facility of disposing by will. The last copyhold that appears on the Rolls was in the very beginning of the last century. The particulars of holding a Court in those days, with the Steward’s charge, happen to be preserved on the Roll for 1688, and seem to me sufficiently curious to warrant their insertion. * * * * * At a Court of William Davies, esq. Lord of the United Manors of Amyll and Tillie, holden on Friday the 27th day of April, 1688. _The Homage._ Sampson Veale, esq. Foreman. Robert Michell, James Trewhelow, John Curnow, Francis Quick, John Quick, John Williams, Oller Vaynfleet, John Baragwanath, John Trewhella, Anthony Quick, Christopher Trewhella, John Gilbart, George Beriman, James Quick. _The Oath._ You shall swear that you, as Foreman of this Homage, with the rest, shall duly inquire, and true presentment make of all such copyholds and things as shall be given you in charge; wherein you shall spare no man, from love, favour, or affection; nor present any man for malice, hatred, or envy; but according as things are presentable, shall or may come to your knowledge, by information or otherwise, so shall you make thereof true presentment without concealment, So help you God, and the contents of this book. _The Charge._ Sirs――You that be sworn! You know the customs of this court, and what you ought to present, which is grounded all on these three things, that is to say, upon truth, judgment, and justice, for this comprehends all you have to do.