This parish is a rectory. The vicarage is valued in the King’s Book at
8_l._ 0_s._ 11_d._ The rectory is a sinecure, and the rector presents
to the vicarage.
Trenant was sold by Mr. Medhope in the 1st year of Queen Anne to
Edward Dennis, of Liskeard, attorney-at-law, who had before a mortgage
on it, and it is now the seat of his son, George Dennis, Esq. sheriff
of Cornwall in the 1st year of George II. In respect to the name of
this parish, I cannot agree with Mr. Hals in supposing it God’s Lake.
I rather interpret it the Black Lake, alluding to the river Looe,
which runs through it, and I guess takes that name from its forming a
deep lake or pool between the two towns and it when the tide is in.