Newlin is in the hundred of Pider, and joins to the west with St.
Piran in the Sands and St. Cuthbert, to the north with Crantock and
Lower St. Columb, to the east with Little Colan and St. Enador, and to
the south with St. Allen.
This parish takes its name from, and is dedicated to, a female saint,
Sancta Newlina. It is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Books at £16.
13_s._ 4_d._ The patronage in the Bishop of Exeter. The sheaf
appropriated to the Chancellor of Exeter, and held under lease by
Richard Arundell, esq. uncle and heir presumptive to the present John
Lord Arundell, of Trerice. The incumbent Mr. Reginald Trenheale.
The manor of Cargaul, or Cargol, which signifies the holy town, as
having been for a long time, ever since the settling of the Bishop’s
see at Bodmin, part of the lands belonging to the bishoprick still
appertaining to the Bishop of Exeter. I take this to be what in Mr.
Camden is called Caeling, or I do not know where else you will find
that place. There are many ruins at Cargol, which show that it must
have been once a considerable place. A large prison is still standing
there, although now scarcely used, and a barn of the same size; both
show something of its pristine glory, although as to the rest it be
but a sorry village of three or four poor houses.
Treluddero, or Treludra, which is not far from Cargol, and is held
from it.
Humphrey Borlase, esq. of this place, was Sheriff of Cornwall in the
third and fourth years of King James the Second, in the commission of
the peace and lieutenancy, and also a member of parliament; but
following the fortunes of that king, (by whom it is said that he was
created Baron of Mitchell, at St. Germain’s,) he ran out a large
estate, and died a prisoner for debt in the Fleet; and soon after his
decease, this place, with several other lands, were sold under a
decree in chancery, to Sir William Scawen, and the lease of the manor
of Cargol held under the Bishop to Philip Hawkins, esq. to whose son,
the Rev. John Hawkins, D.D. it at present belongs. From hence
originated the well-known apple, the Treludra or Borlase’s pippin; but
the place is so much fallen to decay that no traces remain of the
house, nor even of the orchard. [The small dwelling of a farmer, and a
few stumps of trees, alone mark the spot. Ed.]
To the south of Treludra, just in from the downs, stands the borough
of Mitchell, the best part of which being in this parish, as the rest
is in St. Eroder, Mr. Browne Willis thus describes it: “Mitchell is a
small hamlet, scarce containing thirty houses, all cottages save one,
which is a public inn, not long since erected, which is the only
healed (slated) house in this poor borough. Concerning the antiquity
of this borough, and when it was created so, I have little to say; but
that it first sent members to parliament in the sixth year of Edward
the Sixth, in which return it is called villa Mychell, as it is in all
the ancient indentures, styled burgus or villa Mychell, Mitchell, or
Modishole. Mr. Carew calls it Meddleschale, the name Mitchell never
occurring till in modern times.
The manor of this place is still in possession of the ancient family
of Arundell, of Lanherne, whose ancestor, Ralph de Arundell, purchased
the same in the time of Henry the Third, by whose interest, I presume,
with Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, this little town
obtained the privileges of a market and fairs. In anno the thirtieth
Edward the First, John de Arundell (grandson of the aforesaid Ralph,
who had been Sheriff of Cornwall in the forty-fourth of Henry the
Third,) certified his claim to a market and fair in his manor of
Modishole, which he challenged by hereditary descent from Ralph de
Arundell, his ancestor, and pleaded that the said Ralph purchased this
manor of Piers de Ralegh, heir of Walter de Ralegh.
The manor of Degembris was one of those forfeited by Francis Tregian,
esq. (see Probus). It was either given or sold to John Arundell, of
Trerise, esq. by King Charles the First.
In this manor Pallamaunter, or Palmaunter, was formerly a gentleman’s
seat, and gave name to an ancient family since removed to Trevyrick,
in St. Columb Minor.
The manor of Tresulion. Here it is said was born Sir Robert Tresulion,
or Tresilian, Lord Chief Justice of England under Richard the Second,
though some say he was born at another place. It certainly however
belonged to a family of that name, till it went, or rather the barton,
with a female heir, to a branch of the Carnes of Glamorganshire. The
manor went probably, by purchase, to the Arundells. But in the year
1599, Thomas Davies, of Canon Teign, in Devon, esq. seized the barton
under a mortgage, and his descendant, Mary, widow of Sir George Cary,
of Clovelly, in Devonshire, sold it to ―――― Gully, gent. who settled
himself there, from whom, having lost all his children, it devolved on
his nephew Samuel Gully, esq.
The manor of Treworthen was the seat of a very considerable family, of
which Walter de Treworthen, or Treworden, was Sheriff of Cornwall 7th
of Henry the Third, as was Sir Otho de Treworthen 4th Henry the Fifth,
and Sir John de Treworthen was knight of the shire 21st Richard the
Second. The arms of Treworthen were Argent, three boar’s heads couped
Sable, armed Gules. This manor, now reduced nearly to the barton, is
the property of Wills, of Wivelscomb, a minor.