Mabe, a vicarage, is situated in the hundred of Kerryer, and hath upon
the north Stithians, and west Constantine; east, part of Gluvias and
Bradock.
For the name, it is plain Cornish Mab or Mabe, being a son, and in
this place either to be construed in reference to Milorus (son of
Melianus, King or Duke of Cornwall), who lies buried in Milor
church-yard, and who was lord of this place, or had some jurisdiction
over it, as Milor church at this day hath in spirituals over Mabe, to
which it is considered as annexed.
Or perhaps the name of this church, Mab or Mabe, refers to our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, to whose honour it may have been erected by
our ancestors as a pledge of their orthodox faith, in opposition to
the Ebiorite and Arian heresies.
At the time of the Norman conquest the district was taxed under the
jurisdiction of Tremiloret, i. e. Milor’s Town. In the Inquisition of
the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, 1294, into the value of Cornish
benefices, Ecclesia de Sancto Milore in decanatu de Kerryer cum
Sacello (that is to say, with this church or chapel), was rated £6.
13_s._ 4_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, Milor la Vabe, or Mabe, is
valued £16. 15_s._ The patronage in the Bishop of Exon, the incumbent.
Now Milor-la-Vabe is either Milor’s son’s place, or a corruption of
Milor-ha-Vabe, i. e. Milor and mabe, or Milor and son; this parish was
rated to the 4_s._ per pound land-tax 1694, £56. 17_s._
In this place, at Tremough, is the dwelling of John Worth, Esq.
sheriff of Cornwall 10th of Queen Ann, who married Trefusis, his
father Penularick; originally descended from the Worths of Worth, in
Devon or Somerset; who giveth for his arms, in a field Ermine, an
imperial eagle with two necks Sable, armed Gules.
Tre-mayne in this parish, i. e. the town of stone, or the stone town,
transnominated the gentle family of Peares or Perys, i. e. Pearce in
English, to that of Tremayne, tempore Edward III. at which time Peres
de Tremayne was lord and possessor thereof, who married Dame Opre, or
Obre de Treskewis, and by her had issue John, that died without issue;
2ndly, Peros, that married Onera Trevartea, by whom he had issue
Richard, who had issue Thomas, that married Isabella, daughter and
heir of Trenchard of Collacomb in Devon, and removed thither, by whom
he had issue Nicholas, Canon of St. Peter’s Church, Exeter; which
Isabella, surviving her husband Tremayne, married Sir John Damerell,
Knight, sheriff of Devon 1 Richard II. 1377, by whom she had no issue:
nevertheless so prevailed with him, having no issue of his own, to
settle divers land upon her issue by Tremayne, which was a great
advancement of the estate of the Tremaynes. In 1392, Nicholas her son
aforesaid married Jane, and had issue Thomas that married Carew, who
had issue John, who by Joan Warr had issue John, who had issue Thomas,
who by Grenville had issue Roger, Edmund, and Degory; Degory had issue
Arthur, that married Grenville, by whom he had issue Edmund and
Richard, from which Richard the Tremaynes of St. Ewe are descended.
This tenement of Tremayne is long since gone out of that name, and is
now the land of persons to me unknown. Tremayne tenements are also in
St. Martyn’s in Kerrier, also in St. Colomb Major, et al. Tremayne
parish in the hundred of East.
The arms of Damorell were, Party per fess Gules and Azure, three
crescents, 2 and 1, Argent.