The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin; with Additions and Various Appendices, Volume 3J. B. Nichols and son, 1838 - Cornwall (England : County) |
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... manor of Pen- ryn ; but as for the manor of Tregear , that he and his predecessors had the same liberties from his and their villains , and not from their free tenants , a tempore quo non extat memoria , sine intermissione . The Bishops ...
... manor of Pen- ryn ; but as for the manor of Tregear , that he and his predecessors had the same liberties from his and their villains , and not from their free tenants , a tempore quo non extat memoria , sine intermissione . The Bishops ...
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... manor , of John Coren , Esq . , who in the reign of Queen Anne was in the Commission of the Peace , and Deputy - Surveyor of the Duchy of Cornwall , who dying without issue , left his estate to his widow ; and on her de- cease it fell ...
... manor , of John Coren , Esq . , who in the reign of Queen Anne was in the Commission of the Peace , and Deputy - Surveyor of the Duchy of Cornwall , who dying without issue , left his estate to his widow ; and on her de- cease it fell ...
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... manor of the same name , including the whole parish and borough , I shall first begin with it , and then go on with the town , the church , castle , and the other most noted places in it . THE MANOR OF LESKEARD . In the extent of ...
... manor of the same name , including the whole parish and borough , I shall first begin with it , and then go on with the town , the church , castle , and the other most noted places in it . THE MANOR OF LESKEARD . In the extent of ...
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... manor of Lesnewith . In the third year of Henry IV . Henry de la Pomeroy held here and in Trevygham half a knight's fee . I fancy this to be the same which is called in Domesday Book by the name of Lisniwen . And if so , it was one of ...
... manor of Lesnewith . In the third year of Henry IV . Henry de la Pomeroy held here and in Trevygham half a knight's fee . I fancy this to be the same which is called in Domesday Book by the name of Lisniwen . And if so , it was one of ...
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... manor of Grylls in this parish formerly belonged to the Betensons , who intermarried with the Gilberts of Tackbear ; and their arms remain in the church , Argent , within a bordure engrailed Ermine , a fess Gules , with a lion passant ...
... manor of Grylls in this parish formerly belonged to the Betensons , who intermarried with the Gilberts of Tackbear ; and their arms remain in the church , Argent , within a bordure engrailed Ermine , a fess Gules , with a lion passant ...
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Page 418 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore; As thine, Andromache! Thy griefs I dread: I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led! In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes, of which so large a part was thine!
Page 70 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath GOD said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden...
Page 165 - Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, Quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo ; Omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
Page 156 - Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.
Page 185 - They say the parson hath a gown, But I saw ne'er a cloak. Whereby you may consider well, That plain simplicity doth dwell At Lydford, without bravery : And in the town, both young and grave Do love the naked truth to have ; No cloak to hide their knavery.
Page 330 - Eight inches above the centre of the altar is a recess in the wall, where probably stood a crucifix, and on the north side of the altar is a small doorway, through which the priest may have entered.
Page 178 - Constantine was a cottage which a family of the name of Edwards held for generations under the proprietors of Harlyn by the annual render of a pie made of limpets, raisins, and various herbs, on the eve of the festival. This pie, as I have heard from my father, and from more ancient members of the family, and from old servants, was excellent. The Edwardses had pursued for centuries the occupation of shepherds on Harlyn and Constantino commons.
Page 310 - Trevelyan family are too old, too honourable, and now too much distinguished by science, for them to covet any addition of honour through the medium of fabulous history. "It is recorded in the Saxon Chronicle that, in the year 1099, there was so very high a tide, and the damage so great in consequence, that men remembered not the like to have ever happened before, and the same day was the first of the new moon. Stow, who wrote his History of England about the year 1580, notices the great tide of...
Page 52 - Observations on the antiquities., historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall, consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants...
Page 258 - Earth, take thine Earth, my Sin let Satan havet, The World my goods, my Soul my God who gavet ; For from these four, Earth, Satan, World, and God, My flesh, my sin, my goods, my soul, I had.