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)
Tremaine measures 806 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 467 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 43 0 0
Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 91 | 122 | 125 | 118
giving an increase of 28 per cent. in 30 years.
THE GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE.
The rocks of this parish are the same as those of Boyton and Otterham.
TRENEGLOS.
HALS.
Treneglos is situate in the hundred of Lesnewith, and hath upon the
north Warstow, south and east Tresmere and St. Cleather, west
Davidstow. For the name, it refers to the church, and signifies a
stout, strong, robust or firm church. Under what name it was rated in
the Domesday Book I know not. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of
Lincoln and Winchester aforesaid, ecclesia de Treneglos was valued at
£7. vicar’ ibidem 20_s._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, it was rated,
together with Warstow, as to First Fruits, £9. 19_s._ 6_d._; the
patronage in the Duke of Cornwall I take it; the incumbent Wood; the
rectory in ――――; and the parish rated to the four shillings per pound
Land Tax 1696, together with Warbstow, as I remember, £87. 16_s._
which church is consolidated into Treneglos, and goes in presentation
with it.
TONKIN.
Treneglos is in the hundred of Lesnewith, hath to the west Davidstow,
to the north Warbstow, to the east Tremaine, to the south St.
Cleather.
The meaning of this name is no other than the church town, the
common appellation which we give to all dwellings round or near the
church.
In 1291, 20 Edward I. the rectory here was valued (Tax. Ben.) at £7.
being appropriated to the priory of Tywardreath, and the vicar at
20_s._
It is a vicarage not valued in the King’s Book; the patronage in the
Crown; the incumbent Mr. Charles Porter.
THE EDITOR.
There cannot be a doubt as to Mr. Tonkin’s being the real etymology of
this name.
Mr. Lysons says, the greater part of the manor of Downeckney,
anciently Donnegny, which formerly belonged to the Dinhams and
Cardinhams, by descent from Richard, Steward of the household to
William the Conqueror at the time of the Domesday Survey, is now
vested in fee in William Braddon, esq. of Treglith in this parish, who
is lessee of the remainder; that remainder belonging in equal shares
to the Trefusis family from the Rolles and Walpoles; and to the
representatives of the Gilberts of Tacbear through Cotton and Amy. Mr.
Braddon inherited this property from his father-in-law John Spettigue,
esq. who had purchased it from the family of Symons, who resided at
Treglith.
The church of Treneglos was given by the above-named Richard, so early
as the time of the Conqueror, to the priory of Tywardreth. The great
tithes, with the exception of some endowed on the vicarage, belong to
the Eliot family of St. German’s.
The vicarage is in the gift of the Crown.
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