Is situate in the hundred of Trigg, and hath upon the north St. Kewe,
east St. Udye, south Helland, west Egleshayle. For the modern name of
this church, it signifies, in the holy or sacred son, or a church
dedicated and consecrated in honour of God the Son, in opposition to
Arianism, as aforesaid under Mabe. In the Domesday Book 1087, 20 Will.
I. this district was taxed under the jurisdiction of Treu-es-coit, i.
e. the wood-town, or town of wood; still the voke lands of a manor,
the lords whereof first endowed this church, whose names were ――――,
together with the Duke or Earl of Cornwall.
In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, 1294,
into the value of Cornish benefices, Ecclesia de Maben in decanatu de
Trig Minorshire, is rated at £8. In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, it is
rated at £36. The patronage formerly in the lords of the manor
aforesaid, and the Duke of Cornwall, that endowed it; afterwards in
the Duke and Louis alternately, the which Louis sold it to Boscawen,
now in possession thereof; the incumbent Hill; and the parish rated to
the 4_s._ per pound land-tax 1696, at £158. 19_s._ by the name of St.
Mabyn or Mabin aforesaid.
Nevertheless the inhabitants of this parish, through ignorance of the
Cornish tongue, as not understanding the etymology or import of this
compound word Mab-in, have substituted St. Mabiana, as the tutelar
guardian or patroness of this church, instead of Jesus Christ the Son
of God, the true patron and defender thereof.
Coll-quite, Coll-coit, alias Killyquite, in this parish, tempore
Edward III. was the lands of Sir Richard Sergeaulx, sheriff of
Cornwall 12 Richard II. who held this place by tenure of knight’s
service, two knight’s fees and a half, Morton (see Talland and
Crowan); whose issue male failing, his three daughters and heirs were
married to Beere, Marney of Essex, and Seyntaubyn of Clowans (whose
widow Alice after his death was married to Richard de Vere, the
eleventh Earl of Oxford).
From Segreaulx’s heirs this barton and manor by descent or purchase
came to Henry Marney, sheriff of Essex, the 2d and 8th of king Henry
VII. executor of the last will and testament of Margaret Plantagenet,
alias Beaufort, daughter and heir of John Duke of Somerset (grandchild
to John of Gaunt by his son John), widow of Edmund of Hadham, Earl of
Britain and Richmond, father and mother of King Henry VII. who died
1509, and was by her executors honourably buried in the abbey of
Westminster. The arms of Marney were Gules, a lion rampant guardant
Argent.
Tre-blith-ike, alias Tre-bletike, in this parish, is now in part, or
the whole, the possession of … Hamley, Gent. that married Dingle, and
giveth for his arms, in a field Argent, three talbots passant Azure,
taloned, clawed, and langued Gules, two in chief and one in base.
Haligan, alias Hel-ligon in this parish. The first name as a
monosyllable, signifies, after the Belgick Cornish, the holy or
sacred; the second the legal nuncio or ambassador’s hall, perhaps the
spiritual legate or ambassador, viz. the minister or priest of this
parish. Otherwise, if Heligan be a Greek monosyllable, it signifies
willows or osiers, ἑλικὴ helikê, helike, salix.
This barton and manor is the dwelling of Joseph Silly, Esq. one of his
Majesty’s Commissioners for the peace, that married Cloberry, his
father Elford, originally descended from the Sillys of St. Wenn and
Minver. In this place Robert de Haligan, 3 Henry IV. held, by the
tenure of knight service, two knight’s fees. Carew’s Survey of
Cornwall, p. 42.
Pen-wyne in this parish, that is, the head or chief wyne, was the
dwelling of Porter, Gent, that married Spry; and giveth for his arms,
in a field Sable, three bells Argent, and a canton Ermine. This place
is now sold to Cole. Pen-wyn is the beloved head or promontory of
land; but properly pen gwynsa is head or chief wine.
Baldwyn, alias Bawdwyn, of Colquite, gave for his arms Gules, within a
plain bordure two bendlets Argent. Prout, id est, Proud, gave for his
arms Sable, a stag rampant Argent, depressed with a fess indented in
chief Or; the stag tripped and armed of the Same.