Is situate in the hundred of Powdre, and hath upon the north, Probus;
east, Tregony; south, the Vale River; west, Lamorran and Merther. For
the modern name of this place, Cornell-y or Kornell-y, it signifies
the angle, nook, canton, quarter, or corner; and, suitable to its
name, it is a dismembered district from Probus parish; a remote canton
or corner of land in respect thereof, but as to spirituals
consolidated, and goes in presentation with it as a daughter church.
The patronage is in the Bishop of Exeter; the incumbent Baudree
(Duddowe).
This parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, 72_l._ 4_s._
The rectory or sheaf in possession of Hawkins and Huddy. In the
Domesday tax, 20 William I., 1087, this parish was taxed under the
name and jurisdiction of Pen-pell, that is the far off or remote top
or head. In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, and Valor Beneficiorum, this
church is called Gro-goth.
Tre-den-ike in this parish, (i. e. the man town, creek, or cove of
waters,) also Tre-warth-en-ike, (i. e. the farther town of, in, or
upon the cove, creek, lake, or bosom of waters,) is the dwelling of my
very kind friend John Gregor, Esq. who married Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Walter Moyle, Knight; his father, Francis Gregor, Esq. married one
of the coheirs of Prideaux of Gunlyn, sheriff of Cornwall 19 Charles
II.; his grandfather, Jane, daughter of Nosworthy, of Truro. And he
giveth for his arms, Or, a chevron Gules, between three partridges
Proper, out of a supposed allusion to their name in Cornish, wherein
Grugyer and Gyrgirk is a partridge.