――the fair town or dwelling. [The fair house. W.] And so it may be
well called, considering the country it lies in, as being for that
pleasantly situated on the river which runs under Ponsannowth or New
Bridge, and emptieth itself under Piran Arwothall church. This was
formerly a manor of large extent, but now strangely curtailed.
Of late years it hath been the seat of the family of Morton; the last
of which who lived here, John Morton, gent. who married ―――― the
daughter of John Wilton of Dunveth, gent. was oddly outed of it
(169..) by Nicholas Pearce; who having gotten a great deal of money in
Magdalen Ball in Gluvias, settled it on his son Nicholas Pearce,
lately dead, leaving by ―――― his wife, the daughter of ―――― Trewren,
esq. of Trewardreva, one son Nicholas Pearce, a minor, who is the
present lord of this manor. Morton’s arms were, Argent, a chevron
between three moorcocks Sable.