A part of this parish is within the manor of Cargaul, belonging to the
Bishop of Exeter, but long held by the Borlases, of Treladra, on a
lease for lives, and under them by the Jagos, a family of antient
standing in this parish. During the Civil Wars and the subsequent
usurpation, John Jago, of this parish, Esq. was a Justice of the
Peace, and a mighty sequestrator, so that he got into his possession
the greater part of Mr. Borlase’s estate, and drove his family to
great extremities. Mr. Jago died before the Restoration, leaving one
son by his first wife, a daughter of John Molesworth, Esq. of
Pencorrow; and three daughters by his second wife, a daughter of ――――
Herle, of Prideaux, Esq. and widow of Williams, of Truthon. His three
daughters were married to three Clergymen, to Mr. Charles Tremayne,
Vicar of St. Austell; to Mr. Carthew, Vicar of St. Erme; and to Mr.
Drinkwater, Vicar of Mevagissey. His son John Jago enjoyed this and
the rest of his father’s estate till the Restoration; when Mr. Borlase
got his own again, and among the rest this barton, the lease under him
having expired by the death of Mr. John Jago, sen. Mr. Borlase settled
Truthon on his son Humphry Borlase on marriage with a daughter of Sir
John Winter, of Sydney, in Gloucestershire, Bart. maid of honour to
Queen Henrietta Maria, but had not any children that survived their
infancy, except one son, Nicholas Borlase, who was taken off in the
flower of his youth. Mr. Borlase built here a very convenient new
house, and made it the place of his constant residence; but Mr.
Borlase being deeply engaged in the interest of the late King James,
and Sheriff during the two last years of his reign, sold his copyhold
lease of Truthon to the before-mentioned Mr. Williams, who was Sheriff
of Cornwall, in the 4th year of Queen Anne, 1705. He left four sons
and three daughters. His eldest son John Williams, Esq. now lives here
in the commission of the peace, and as yet unmarried.
The manor of Killigrew, which signifies the Eagle’s Grove, from Kelly,
a Grove, and Eriew or Erigrew, an Eagle, gave name to that ancient and
very eminent family of Kelligrew, whose seat it was for a long time;
till on their marriage with the heiress of Arwinick, they removed
thither, as being the more pleasant and convenient seat. This place,
however, continued in their possession till the reign of King James
the First, when Sir John Kelligrew first mortgaged it to his kinsman
―――― Mitchell, of Truro, and after that dismembered and sold it in
parcels. The barton and various high rents were purchased by the said
Mitchell, who sold them again about the year 1636, to the before
mentioned Mr. Jago, of Truthan, who left the barton to his son John
Jago, who on the recovery of Truthon, by Mr. Borlase, at the
Restoration, removed to a farm adjacent, which his father had
purchased with the barton.
Ennis or de Insula, which explains the meaning of the word, was
formerly the seat of the Opies, for here resided, in Queen Elizabeth’s
time, John Opie, sen. whose son Robert Opie, married Jane, the
daughter of Agnes Jago, of this parish, widow, and the said Robert or
his son sold the barton to John Jago. These Opies I take to be a
younger branch of the Opies of Towton, who give for their arms, Sable,
on a chevron, between three garbs Or, as many hurtleberries Proper.
The above named John Jago married, in 1664, Juliana, the second
daughter of Thomas Tonkin, of Trevawnance, by whom he had several
children; he survived her, and dying in the early part of this century
(i. e. 1700) left the two bartons of Killigrew and Ennis to his eldest
son Itai Jagoe, who married the daughter of John Bowden, of
Trelassick, in the parish of Ladock, who is still living, but has sold
the manor or manors to Robert Corker, of Falmouth, Esq. lately
deceased, reserving to himself the barton of Ennis, and a part of the
barton of Killigrew on lease. The arms of Jagoe are, Argent, a plough
Proper, between three fleurs-de-lis Azure (Mr. Lysons says, Or, a
chevron between three cross crosslets Sable.) Mr. Itai Jagoe has since
sold the fee of Ennis to John Stephens of St. Ives, Gent. reserving to
himself the lease for three lives; which Mr. Stephens, has this March,
1737, bought also the manor of Killigrew of Sir J. Molesworth and
Edmund Prideaux, Esq.
Polglase is not far from Killigrew, and was anciently a part of that
manor. It signifies the green pool, and was sold by the above-named
Sir John Killigrew to John Luxton, Gent. inter alia, in the 8th year
of King James the First, who, two years afterwards, sold it to John
Rosogan, sen. of the Rosogans of St. Stephen in Bronnel, who came to
live in this place, and left it to his son John Rosogan, of Lyon’s
Inn, Gent. This John Rosogan married in 1632 Elizabeth, the daughter
of John Haulsey, Esq. by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, married
to Edward Westbury, of Winston Westbury, in the County of Southampton,
Gent. and they joined in conveying this estate, January the 20th,
1660, to Thomas Tonkin, of Trevawnance, in whose posterity it still
continues.
The arms of Rosogan are, Argent, a chevron between three roses Gules,
bearded Proper, seeded Or.
To the south is Trevillon. This was the seat of a younger branch of
the Langhernes, for here, in the reign of Edward the First, lived
Thomas Langherne, Gent. and this place continued in his posterity till
the reign of Charles the Second.