The manor of Arworthal (which signifies, upon the noted river,) giving
the name of distinction to this parish, and taking in the greatest
part of the lands thereof, I shall begin with it.
In 3 Henry IV. John Fitz William held half a knight’s fee in
Arworthall, per cartam Edwardi quondam com. Cornub. dict. feod.
Mortan. (Carew, p. 126, Lord Dunstanville’s edition,) which Edward
Earl of Cornwall must be Edward de Caernarvon, afterwards King of
England, the 2d of that name, for there was no other Edward Earl of
Cornwall. Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of this Sir John Fitz
William (for he was a knight) brought the manor, &c. into the family
of Mohun in which it continued till the reign of James the 1st, when
Sir Reginald Mohun, to raise fortunes for his children by his third
wife, sold this manor to Samuel Pendarves of Roscrow, esq. in whose
posterity it yet remaineth, Mrs. Bassett, the sole heir of that
family, being the present lady thereof.
On the wastrell of this manor have been large quantities of tin dug up
from time to time; and just above the village of Perran Arworthall, by
the pound near Perran Well, there is a strong chalybeate spring much
frequented of late years.
In this parish did antiently dwell the family of Renaudin, by their
name of French extraction, but where I cannot positively say; and here
dwelt, temp. Ricardi II. David Renaudin, who married Margaret, the
eldest daughter and coheir of James Daungers of Carnclew. John
Renaudin, their son, dying without issue temp. Henry V. this estate
fell to Richard Bonython of Carclew, who had married Isabel, the other
daughter and coheir of the said James Daungers, in which family of
Bonython (whose heiress still lays claim to it, and, as by original
deeds, it appears very justly,) it continued to the reign of Charles
I. when Peter Beauchamp of Trevince, esq. having a lease of it for
three lives, from John Bonython, esq. his posterity have been
strangely outed of the fee ever since; which has of late years past
through several hands, and is now vested in Thomas Hearle of Penryn,
esq.
The arms of Renaudin, as painted in the old glass windows at Carnclew,
were Sable, a chevron between three swans Argent.