Is situate in the hundred of West, and hath upon the north, St. Keyn;
west, Lanreth; east, Morvale; south, Plint. For the modern name of
this district, it is taken from the church, and is compounded of
Du-Lo, Du-Loe, or Loo, id est, God’s Lake or River of Water, either
referring to the Loo River, on which it is situate.
In the Domesday Roll 20 William I. 1087, this parish was rated under
the jurisdiction of Treworgye. At the time of the Inquisition of the
Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester 1294, into the value of Cornish
benefices, Ecclesia de Dulo in decanatu de West Wellshire, was taxed
at vii_l._ vi_s._ viii_d._ Vicar ejusdem xxx_s._ In Wolsey’s
Inquisition it was rated as a rectory 22_l._ The vicarage 8_l._ 0_s._
11½_d._ the patronage in Seyntaubyn and Arundell alternately. The
incumbent Fincher (Smalle). The parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound
Land Tax 3 William III. 1696, 246_l._ 4_s._ The rectory of the
vicarage is in possession of Knicker (Sandford).
One Forbes, or Forbhas, was presented rector of this parish in the
latter end of Cromwell’s usurpation, and lived here on this fat
benefice, without spending or lending any money, many years, always
pretending want thereof; at length he died suddenly intestate, about
the year 1681, having neither wife nor legitimate child, nor any
relation of his in blood in this kingdom; upon news of whose death Mr.
Arundell, his patron, opened his trunks, and found about three
thousand pounds in gold and silver, and carried it thence to his own
house. The fame and envy of which fact flew suddenly abroad, so that
Mr. Buller, of Morval, had notice thereof, who claimed a part or share
in this treasure, upon pretence of a nuncupative will, wherein Forbes
some days before his death had made him his executor, and the same was
concerted into writing, whereupon he demanded the 3,000_l._ of Mr.
Arundell. But he refusing to deliver the same, Mr. Buller filed a bill
in Chancery against him the said Mr. Arundell, praying relief in the
premises, and that the said money might be brought or deposited in the
said court, which at length was accordingly done; where, after long
discussing this matter between the lawyers and clerks in that court,
in fine, as I was informed, the court, the plaintiff, and the
defendant shared the money amongst them, without the least thanks to,
or remembrance of the deceased wretch Forbes for the same; abundantly
verifying that saying in the Sacred Writings, “man layeth up riches,
but knows not who shall gather them.”
Since the writing of the above, the incumbent, Mr. Fincher, has built
a pretty fine house on the glebe lands of this vicarage, equal if not
superior to any other of that sort in Cornwall of its bigness, except
Altar-nun, as designing to buy the patronage thereof, being a
sinecure, which I interpret too often to be, without care, thought,
regard, or guardianship, over souls, where the rector presents to the
vicarage. But maugre all designs and endeavours of Mr. Fincher to
purchase the patronage of this church, Sir John Seynt-aubyn and Mr.
Arundell, the patrons thereof, sold the same to Balliol College in
Oxford 1701. At the consideration of which fact, as common fame saith,
Mr. Fincher was so dismayed, that forthwith he grew melancholy, and
the grief thereof so depressed his spirits, that he broke his heart,
and departed this life 26th November 1703, at night; and so went to
Heaven in that great tempest and hurricane that then happened, with
many others. The vicar has now all the tithes, paying 40_l._ yearly to
the master or one of the fellows of Balliol College, by act of
parliament. Properly he is the rector of a church, that hath a
parsonage where a vicarage is endowed, to which he presents, as in
this parish; and yet it is supposed, in some places, that person is
the patron, or he in whom the right of patronage is; for before the
second Council of Lateran, A.D. 1131, he had right to the tithes, in
regard of his having endowed the church which he had founded. But the
Council of Lateran aforesaid, under Pope Innocent II. consisting of
two thousand bishops, made it sacrilege and damnation for laymen to
take tithes.
Tre-wer-gy, id est, the village or farm-town, the same, I suppose, in
Domesday Roll, taxed by the name of Treworgan, being still the voke
lands of an ancient barton and manor, which claims the royalty or
liberty of fishing over the river and haven of Loo, by virtue of the
grant thereof from the ancient Earls and Dukes of Cornwall in right of
their honour, manor, borough, and castle of Liskeard, situate upon the
same river, which place was the mansion of the ancient, worshipful,
and gentle family of the Kendalls for many ages; and in particular
here lived Richard de Kendall, Sheriff of Cornwall 8 Richard II. 1385,
as his posterity continued to do till John Kendall, Esq. having no
issue temp. William III. and his estate being incumbered with debt,
sold this barton and manor to William Williams, of Boderick, merchant,
now in possession thereof. The arms of Kendall are, Argent, a chevron
between three dolphins Sable. Ken-dall signifies to see or behold the
dale or valley; otherwise Kendall or Cendall is fine linen; and
Cen-dale may be a corruption of Pendall, id est, the head of the
valley.
Tremada in this parish signifies the extasy or transport town, alias
Tremodart, that is, the dart or javelin affliction (as Cornish-English
for hobel is a dart). This barton and manor, as I am informed, was the
dwelling of the Col-shills, id est, neck-shields; so called from their
wearing, in time of battle, their shield or coat armour with a ribbon
about their neck, originally denominated from Colshill parish, in
Arden hundred, in Warwickshire. And in particular here lived John
Collshill, sheriff of Cornwall 16 Rich. II. 1393; John Collshill was
sheriff of Cornwall 21 Richard II.; John Colshill was sheriff of
Cornwall 17 Henry VI.; John Collshill, Knt. was sheriff of Cornwall 7
Edward IV., whose issue male dying, his inheritance fell amongst his
two daughters, married to Seyntaubyn and Arundell (a younger branch of
the Arundells of Trerice), now in possession thereof, that married
Kelland: his father Drew; and giveth the same arms as the Arundells of
Trerice. The lords of this manor and barton of Tremadah, I suppose,
founded and endowed the vicarage and rectory church of Dulo. Perhaps
the Collshills, since their posterity aforesaid, have long been
patrons thereof. Their manor of Manley Collshill is in St. Veepe. This
gentleman is dead, and the family extinct.
West-north, or rather north-west, is the voke-lands of a dismembered
manor, formerly belonging to the Kendalls of Treworgye, and was by one
of them, temp. Edward IV. given with his daughter in marriage with
Kellyow; whose only daughter and heir was married to ―――― Bastard, a
barrister-at-law, temp. Hen. VIII. which brought this then undivided
manor into that family, who seated themselves therein for several
generations, till Sir William Bastard, Knt. sold it to John Antis,
Gent. Register of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall, now in possession
thereof. Bastard’s arms are painted in several glass windows of this
house, together with divers matches or quarterings; whose arms are,
Or, a chevron Azure. The arms of Kellyow are, Or, a chevron between
two cinquefoils and a mullet Sable.
Trenant in this parish, id est, the valley-town, is the seat of ――――
Medhop, Gent. whose father married Porter. His grandfather, rector of
St. Martin’s by Looe; his great grandfather, rector of the same
parish; which gentlemen, as I am informed, are lineally descended from
the Mydhops of Essex, some of whose ancestors gave lands in
frank-almoine to the Abbey of Furneaux there, 1290, viz. Roger de
Mydhop, son and heir of Henry de Mydhop, who gave for his arms,
Ermine, a lion rampant Azure, crowned Or. See GWILLIM, p. 195.
Tre-wenn, in this parish, id est, the white town, or town-white, is
the dwelling of William Dandy, Gent. attorney-at-law, that got a
considerable estate in that profession. Since the writing of the above
this estate is much impaired, and gone out of the direct to the
collateral heir, of the name of Dandy; which name signifies in
Cornish, deadly, cruel, mortal, fatal.