Much of uninteresting legend has been omitted from Hals respecting the
patron saint, and some fanciful etymologies from him and from Tonkin.
Mr. Whitaker has collected every thing that can be known or
conjectured respecting the ancient state, not of Tregony, but of a
town or city supposed of great commercial and ecclesiastical
importance, which must have stood nearly on the same spot.
Mr. Whitaker describes the ancient castle, and a priory adjacent to
it. The whole, including further particulars of the patron saint, is
much too long for this parochial history. It may be found in Mr.
Whitaker’s work, “The Cathedrals of Cornwall historically surveyed,” 2
vols. 4to, 1804, vol. II. sec. ii.
Bishop Tanner says of Tregony, in his Notitia Monastica, the advowson
of the Priory of Tregony, as belonging to the Abbey of De Valle, in
Normandy, is mentioned fin. div. com. 52 Hen. III. n. 18. Perhaps,
instead of the priory, it should have been only the rectory or church
of St. James, in Tregony; which, by means of some exchange, was made
over by the abbot and convent of De Valle to the prior and convent of
Merton, to whom it was appropriated, and a vicarage endowed by Peter
Quiril, Bishop of Exeter.
Dugdale, edit. 1830, vol. VI. p. 1045, repeats from Tanner, and adds
in a note, Tanner says: Vide inter munimenta Eccl. Cath. Exon, cartam
Abbatis et Conventus de Valle, de resignatione hujus Prioratus. See
also MS. Cole, British Museum, vol. XL. p. 59.
Cubye contains 2,186 statute acres.
Annual Return of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 £2,402
Tregony 841 3243 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831, the parish £187 15_s._
―――― the town 466 3 653 18 0
Population, { in 1801,|in 1811, |in 1821, |in 1831,
The parish, { 139 | 152 | 140 | 155
The town, { 937 | 923 | 1035 | 1127
―――― | ―――― | ―――― | ――――
1076 | 1075 | 1175 | 1282
giving an increase on the whole of 19 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Vaughan, presented by the Marquis of
Cleveland in 1825.