This parish is of large extent, and the land generally good, and lying
very warm on the South Sea, which, with the desire of living quiet,
has induced several gentlemen to settle themselves in this remote
corner of the kingdom, where they may liberally entertain all such as
out of curiosity come to visit the Land’s End.
Mr. Francis Paynter was brother to Doctor William Paynter, Rector of
Exeter College, Oxford, (elected in 1690, died Feb. 19, 1715, aged
eighty, was rector of Wootton in Northamptonshire, where he is
buried,――Editor;) both younger brothers to Mr. Paynter of Trelisick’s
father, who by his skill in husbandry, in which he has scarce his
fellow, not his superior in the county, and some helps of the law, has
purchased to himself a very fair younger brother’s inheritance. Though
this place lies near the sea, and very much exposed, yet has this
gentleman, by the means of furze ricks and other ingenious
contrivances, raised several fair walks of trees about it, and made it
a pleasant and profitable seat, which I mention here, that those who
live under the same inconveniences may imitate his industry. At Leigha
liveth Mr. Oliver Ustick, married to Julia the eldest of two daughters
of ―――― Roscrow of Penryn, of the family of Roscrows of Roscrow.
Leigha is part of the manor of Rosemadans, now the property of Mr.
Grosse.
Boscawanrose, in this parish, gave name and habitation to the famous
and honourable family of Boscawan, who, led away, as many other
Cornish gentlemen have been, by the similarity of sound between words
in the Kernawish tongue and others in French or in Latin, have
mistaken rose a valley, for the flower a rose; and more anciently they
are said to have borne in their arms, besides a rose, an ox, having
mistaken the word bos, which signifies a house or dwelling, for the
name of that animal.