Trewen or Trewenn vicarage is situate in the hundred of East, and hath
upon the north and east Egloskerry and South Pederwin, south Lawanack,
west Altarnun. As for the modern names, it signifies a white town or
dwelling. The same, I suppose, in the Domesday Book 1087, taxed by the
name of Trewin, i. e. the beloved town. The value of this Church’s
revenues is not mentioned in any Inquisition, the same being wholly
impropriated by the Abbat or Prior of St. Stephen’s, who endowed it,
and was Patron thereof till the dissolution of the Abbey of St.
Stephen’s aforesaid, 26 Henry VIII. when it fell to the Crown; and the
parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax for one year, 1696, £46.
8_s._ 8_d._
In this parish, September 29th, is held yearly a public fair or mart
for goods and cattle.
In this parish is Polyfunt or Polyvant, synonymous words, i. e. the
top spring or fountain of water, so called from some spring of water
that rises in some high lands of that tenement, in which place the
Prior of Minster in Kerryer, by the tenure of knight service, held one
little knight’s fee of lands of Morton, 3 Henry IV. Survey of
Cornwall, p. 41. It is now, as I am informed, the lands of ―――― Hicks,
Gent.