St. Piran Uthno, commonly called Little Perran, is in the hundred of
Penwith, and is wholly surrounded to the north, west, and east, by St.
Hilary, and to the south by the sea. In the Tax. Benefic. this is
called Ecclesia de Udnow Parva, and in common speech Little Piran,
from its smallness, not containing above 900 acres in all; but it was
of greater extent formerly, the sea having much encroached upon it.
This is a rectory, valued in the King’s Book, £17. 11_s._ 3_d._; the
patronage in Sir John Trevillian, bart.; the incumbent Mr. John
Davies. It hath its other adjunct of Uthno [which appears from the
Tax. Benef. above, to be the original name of the parish, and to have
since had the name of the saint prefixed to it] from the manor of
Uthno.
In the 3d of Henry IV. the heir of Mark de Walesbreu held two parts of
a fee here, for Veno there is plainly a mistake for Uthno: since which
time it has had the same lords as Whalesborough; the present lord of
this manor being Sir John Trevelyan of Nettlecomb in Somersetshire,
bart. as heir to that family.