Id est, the dwelling place, lies adjoining to Tollgus, the river only
parting them. The barton hereof hath been for three generations the
seat of that most ancient family of Pollard, being the chief stock
from whence all the others of that name were descended, which is now
extinct by the death of the late John Pollard, esq. who died at his
lodgings in London, Oct. 25, 1731, leaving only one daughter Margaret,
yet unmarried, having buried a few years before two very hopeful sons,
Hugh and John, both grown to men.
Yet I cannot leave this place without paying a due respect to the
memory of my deceased friend, and saying that for quick natural parts,
integrity, and true endeavours to serve to the utmost of his power
those whom he pretended friendship to, he hath but few surviving
equals. Some time before his death he purchased the manor (which is
but a small thing) from Richard Erisey, esq. whose family had been
[latterly the lords] of it, and their memory is still preserved in a
tenement in it called Park Erisey.
This barton hath produced of late years vast quantities of tin and
copper, though but little to the advantage of its owner, who had the
misfortune to have his good nature too much abused by a parcel of
villains he intrusted to his ruin. To the south of Treleigh, are a
long row of houses belonging to the barton, on a level piece of ground
called Plain an Guary [a level for sports], from a round in the middle
of it for a public playing place.
The church lieth near a quarter of a mile out of the town, at the very
western extremity of the parish, with a profitable glebe round it. In
anno 1291, 20 Edw. I. (Tax. Ben.) it was valued at 50_s._ having never
been appropriated.