Sir Henry le Tyes, Lord Tyes, or (as Mr. Camden calls him) de Tiers,
was lord of the manor.
Not far from Tywarnhaile house is a small island, upon which are the
ruins of a chapel, called Chapel Angarder.
The manor of Penwortha, alias Penwartha, I take to signify the higher
head or hill, according to its situation in regard to the places
adjacent.
The ancient lords of this manor were the Pentires of Pentire in
Minvor, and of Pentewan in Mevagissey; the last of whom, Philip
Pentire, esq. left one daughter and heir, Jane, married to Thomas
Roscarrock, esq. which Jane died possessed of this manor, 5 Jac. I.
1607 (rent of Tywarnhaile-Tiers, penes me Thomas Tonkin). In Penwortha
village is an old chapel still standing, but profaned. This manor is
held from that of Tywarnhaile-Tiers, at £1. 2_s._ rent yearly.
―――― Roscarrock, esq. sold this manor in 16 Car. I. to Sir Francis
Vyvyan of Trelowarren, knt. in whose posterity it still continueth,
Sir Francis Vyvyan, bart. being the present lord thereof.
There have been small parcels of tin discovered in the north-west
parts of this manor, as also a vein of lead some few years since,
between the village of Penwortha and Lambrigan; but neither have
turned to any account.
Lambourne-Wigan, vulgo Lambrigan, is adjoining to Penwortha, and
commonly called by abbreviation Lambrigan. The meaning of Lambourn is
Lam or Lan, an inclosure, and Wigan, the same as Vycan, Vean, little;
the little Lambourn, to distinguish it from the other. This estate is
likewise held from the manor of Tywarnhaile-Tyes, and has passed
through the same hands as the manor of Penwortha, for two-thirds of
it, of which Sir Francis Vyvyan is now lord.
The other third, commonly called the Lower Town, one Bartholomew de
Trewenethick (Trenethick in St. Agnes) did possess one half of, in the
21st of Richard II.; which, together with Trevanythick, &c. he settled
on Joan, his daughter and heir, and John Hayme: which, by their
grand-daughter and heir, came to Luke Beauchamp of Chyton, and was, I
suppose, sold by Peter Beauchamp, to the ancestor of Francis Gregor of
Trewarthenick, who now possesseth it.
The other sixth, or half of the said third, came through several
hands, which I have not been able to get a true account of, to one
Thomas Carter, of Dartmouth in Devon, and he sold it 22 Car. I. to
John Tregea of St. Agnes, who haxing acquired a pretty estate by tin,
and taken a lease of Vyvyan’s two thirds, and Gregor’s sixth, settled
himself here, and began to build upon it; but, dying soon after, he
left it to finish to his son, Captain William Tregea; who having
married Mary, the daughter of Richard Cross of Bromfield, in Somerset,
esq. by whom he had no surviving issue, he soon after her death run
out a handsome estate, partly left him by his father, and partly of
his own acquiring; and in 1694 sold his right in this barton to
Michael Tonkin of Penwenick, gent.; after which he went into the army,
and was some time a captain in the late Lord Mohun’s regiment. He died
in London or near it in 1730, and gave for his arms, Azure, three
boar’s heads couped Argent. Michael Tonkin parted with it again in
1702, to the writer hereof, who had settled himself here on his
marriage in 1699, where he lived during his father’s life, being as
pleasant a seat as any in those parts, especially for all country
exercises of hunting, fishing, and fowling, the fine downs round it,
and the moors under, abounding in game.