Is situate in the hundred of East, and hath upon the north North
Petherwin; east, St. Thomas; south, Trewenn; west, St. Cleather. In
the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, 1294,
Capella de Egleskerry in Decanatu de Major Trigshire xl_l._; after
which time, but before the statute of Richard the Second against the
total impropriation of vicarages, it was, by its patron and endower,
the Prior of Launceston, alias St. Stephen’s, wholly impropriated; so
that it is not named in Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, and I take it
Tremayne vicarage was then as a daughter church consolidated into it
by the said Prior: whereby it is only a lectureship, the Vicar
subsisting on a small stipend.
In the Domesday Roll, 20 William I. (1087), this district was taxed
under the name of Pen-hall-an, now Penheale, then and still the voke
lands of a considerable manor. Soon after the Norman Conquest, if not
before, the De Boterells, alias De Botreauxes, were possessed of this
place; for in the time of Henry the Second and Richard the First,
Richard de Botreaux held 12 knights’ fees in Cornwall (Carew’s Survey
thereof, p. 49); one of which was held of the King in this place by
his posterity to the 3d Henry the Fourth; where we further read, p.
41: “William de Boteraux tenet dimid. part. feod. de Morton, in
Penhele, de Rege.” From the Botreauxes, for want of issue male, those
lands, by a daughter, with much other, were carried in marriage to
Hungerford; as Hungerfords’ heirs, in like manner, carried it to
Hastings. By Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, it was sold to George
Grenvill, Esq. that married Julyan, one of the daughters of William
Vyell, of Trevorder, who sold it to John Speccot, Esq. Sheriff of
Cornwall 20th James I. grandfather of my kind friend the Hon. John
Speccot, Esq. three times chosen Shire Knight for this county, temp.
William III. (in order to which the writer hereof and many of his
friends were his votes). He married the Lady Essex Robartes, daughter
of the Right Hon. John Earl of Radnor, who died without issue, and
settled those lands upon his kinsman Thomas Long, Esq. now in
possession thereof; and who giveth for his arms, Sable, a lion rampant
between eight cross-crosslets Argent: descended from the Longs of
Wiltshire.
John Speccot, Esq. gave by his last will and testament a thousand
pounds for the benefit of a mathematical school in the county of
Cornwall, where all children were to be taught gratis; the master to
have the interest of the 1,000_l._ This school was first opened at
Penryn, but is now at Looe.
Tre-lyn-ike, in this parish, i. e. the town of the lake, leate, or
bosom of waters, is the dwelling of Christopher Baron.
Since the writing hereof this gentleman is dead; and this place, for
want of issue, is descended to his sister’s son, Mr. Saltern, now in
possession thereof.