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)
It appears from Mr. Lysons that the manor of St. Tudy belonged to the
family of Nicoll, but that it was sold together with Penrose, the
family seat, to Mr. Trehawke of Leskeard, by whom they have been
devised to Samuel Kekewich, esq.
The manor of Tinten, like so many others, either gave its name to the
ancient proprietors, or received it from them. An heiress took it to
the Carminows of Boconnoc. The Carminow property passed to the
Courtenays, and fell to the Crown on the attainder of the Marquis of
Exeter. This manor was included by King Henry the Eighth in the
exchange given for the honour of Wallingford.
The manor of Kellygreen belongs to Walter Raleigh Gilbert, esq.
Tremeer was a seat of the Lowers, the birth-place of Sir William
Lower, the author of various works.
The Phœnix in her flames, a Tragedy.
Polyenetes, or the Martyr, a Tragedy.
Horatius, a Roman Tragedy.
The Enchanted Lovers, a Pastoral.
The Amorous Fantasme, Tragi-Comedy.
Noble Ingratitude.
Journal of the Travels of King Charles the Second in Holland; and
others.
He died in 1662.
Here also was born Richard Lower, M.D. brother of the former, who
lived to the year 1690. This gentleman published various medical
works, and some papers in the Philosophical Transactions. One of his
works, “Tractatus de Corde, item Motu et Calore Sanguinis et Chyli in
eorum transitu,” reached a third edition in England, and was reprinted
abroad.
Hengar is a handsome seat, very pleasantly situated on a rising
ground, and at a small distance from the house a prospect is obtained
of great extent and beauty, in consequence of an admixture of all the
varieties of scenery which distinguish Cornwall――granite mountains,
undulating hills of the slate formation, deep valleys with streams of
water, and trees, and finally the sea. This place was the occasional
residence of Matthew Michell, esq. acquired under the will of Samuel
Michell, a Colonel in the Guards, who died there in 1786, after
attaining his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Matthew Michell has left this
place with all his property to his widow, who is again married to a
gentleman of the name of Searle.
St. Tudy measures 2881 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 4286 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 398 8 0
Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 502 | 512 | 605 | 658
giving an increase of 31 per cent. in 30 years.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish no where reaches so far as the granite hills. Its eastern
part is composed of rocks which pass into the porphyritic series
of St. Breward; the western part rests on the same kind of rocks as
those of the adjoining parish of St. Teath.
[13] No such name appears in the index to Domesday Book; nor should
we expect it. On the contrary, this place is probably the Tewardevi of
the Domesday survey. _Edit._
TYWARDRETH.
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