Is situate in the hundred of Pidre, and hath upon the north Little
Colon; east, St. Stephen’s and St. Denis; south, Ladoch; west,
Newland. In the Domesday Tax, 20th William I. (1087,) this district
was taxed under the names of Borthy and Resparva. And Berthy is still
the voke lands of a manor pertaining to Penrose, now Boscawen and
others. The 3d Henry IV. one Ralph de Borthy held in Dinbegh, in
Pidre, by the tenure of knight-service, a small knight’s fee. (Carew’s
Survey of Cornwall, p. 41.)
In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester into the
value of Cornish Benefices, (1294,) Ecclesia Enadori in Decanatu de
Pidre, is rated vii_l._ vi_s._ viii_d._ Vicar ejusdem xx_s._ In
Wolsey’s Inquisition, and Valor Beneficiorum, Enador Vic. is valued at
26_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._; the patronage in the Bishop of Exeter, who
endowed it; the Incumbent Martin; the Rectory, or sheaf, in possession
of Davy’s heirs; and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax,
(1696,) 141_l._ 6_s._
Some of the inhabitants of this parish have told me that one St.
Athenodorus is the tutelar guardian of this church, from whom it is
denominated Enador. Athenodorus, the stoic philosopher of Athens, was
born before Christ Jesus, and was tutor to the Emperor Augustus, who
taught him that he should neither do or say any thing, but take
respite till he could say over the Greek alphabet, that so he might
neither say or do any thing through rashness or anger; for which
advice he is specially remembered.
Car-vin-ike, alias Car-fyn-ike, (i. e. the rock spring, fountain,
leat, or riveret of water, so called from the natural circumstances of
the place,) is the dwelling of Anthony Tanner, Gent. that married
Carthew; his father Arundell, by whom he had this place. Originally
descended from the Tanners, late of Court and Boderick, in St.
Stephen’s, and giveth the same arms.
Pen-coll, or Pen-cooth, in this parish, (i. e. the head-wood, a name
also of old taken from the ancient natural circumstances of the
place,) is the dwelling of Arthur Fortescue, Gent. that married
Verman; his father Elford, being of the Fortescues of Filleigh, in
Devon, and gives the same arms.
Gon-rounsan, in this parish, is the dwelling of John Flammock, Gent.
that married Coode, and giveth for his arms the same as the Flammocks
of Bodmin. This land is since sold to Philip Hawkins, Esq. son of Mr.
Hawkins of Creed.
Tre-wheler, in this parish, is the dwelling of Edward Hoblyn, Gent.
that married Williams; his father Cosowarth; a younger branch of
Nanswhiddon family, and giveth the same arms.
This parish of St. Enedor is the flattest or levellest parish of lands
in Cornwall, and, by consequence, the storehouse or preserver of
moisture, or water; and in testimony of the wateryness of this soil, I
do remember that in the latter end of the reign of King Charles the
Second, the tower of this church sunk in its foundation, so much that
the whole fabric fell to the ground, and greatly damnified the church
with its stones; which church and tower, by the Bishop of Exeter’s
grant of a collection throughout his diocese, are both again
well-built and repaired as it now stands.
This parish is enriched with lodes of tin and copper.
At Pen-hale, or haile, in this parish, that is to say, the head-river,
or the head of the river; and suitable to its name, in the low lands
thereof are the original fountains or springs of two notable rivers,
viz. that on the south side of those lands, making its current or flux
to Tresillian Bridge, in Merther, on the south part of this county;
that on the north side of Penhale lands, making its course to Lower
St. Colomb Port, on the north part of Cornwall; both which rivers
abound with fishes proper to the country in their seasons, as trouts,
eels, peal, and salmon, &c. before they empty themselves into the
North and South Seas of the British Channel, and the Irish or Atlantic
Ocean.