Cornwall is indebted to this parish for introducing the very
respectable family which now (1833) gives a member for the County.
The advowson has belonged in succession to the families of Luttrell
and Wynne. Doctor William Stackhouse is said to have acquired this
living by exchange, but it appears to be more probable, on account of
his connection with the patrons, that the presentation came
immediately from them. He was the brother of the Rev. Thomas
Stackhouse, Vicar of Benham, in Berkshire, author of the well known
History of the Bible, first published in 1732, in two volumes folio,
and of various other works.
Doctor William Stackhouse resided on his living, and there married the
heiress of the parish, Miss Williams, of Trehane. He had two sons,
William, who married and spent his life at Trehane, and lived till
June 1830, in his ninetieth year; and John, to whom Mrs. Perceval,
heiress of the Pendarveses, of Pendarves, in Cambourne gave her whole
estate. Mr. John Stackhouse married Miss Acton, of Acton Scot, near
Church Stretton, in Shropshire, and acquired with her a very extensive
property, which through the liberality of Mrs. Stackhouse (living in
1833) is possessed by hes second son, on whom the estate was settled
after her decease;[43] and through a similar act of liberality on the
part of his father, Mr. Edward William Stackhouse, the eldest son, had
the property in Cornwall placed in his possession on his marriage with
Miss Trist, an extensive heiress in Devonshire.
This gentleman has moreover derived a very considerable addition to
his fortune by the will of the Reverend Doctor Wynne, patron and some
time Rector of this parish, and in remembrance of the family of
Pendarves, and of the family of Wynne, to both of which he is related,
and from both of which he has obtained ample possessions, Mr.
Stackhouse has exchanged his original name for those of Wynne
Pendarves, under which he now represents the County in Parliament. Mr.
Pendarves has erected a monument to Dr. Wynne, on the western wall of
the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, with the following inscription:
Α ☧ Ω
Lutterello Wynne, LL.D.
Prosapia antiqua et generosa oriundo
Coll. Omn. Anim. Oxon. olim Socio,
Ecclesiæ de Sto Erme, in agro Cornub.
Rectori et Patrono,
Viro
litteris humanioribus et philosophiæ studiis
feliciter imbuto,
mira morum comitate, summa animi benevolentia,
incorrupta fide, simplici pietate,
spectatissimo.
Obiit iii kal. Decembris, A. S. M.DCCCXIV. ætatis lxxvi.
Hoc quale quale sit μνημοσυνον,
optime de se merito,
P. L. C.
Edws Guls Wynne Pendarves, de Pendarves,
in agro Cornub. Arm.
cognatus et hæres.
The manor of Pelsew, or Peldu, in this parish, is said by Mr. Lysons
to have belonged to Robert Earl of Cornwall at the period of the
Domesday Survey; that it was forfeited by John Vere, Earl of Oxford,
to Edward the Fourth, in 1471; and that it passed through the families
of Mapowder and Luttrell to Doctor Wynne, conveying with it the
advowson of the church. Dr. Wynne held the rectory for many years on
his own presentation, deputing the care of his parish to the very
eminent scholar and preceptor Dr. Cardew; but when residence became
necessary for all incumbents, under the provisions of an act of
parliament, he bestowed the living on the distinguished individual who
had long been his curate. Dr. Cardew departed from this life in
December 1831, having advanced into his 84th year. A monument is
placed to his memory in St. Erme church, bearing an inscription
written by himself, which might otherwise have the unusual blame
imputed to it, of not sufficiently recording the merits of him whom it
is intended to praise:
H. S. E.
Cornelius Cardew, S. T. P.
Proba et innocua
quamvis humili stirpe editus,
benigno tamen Numine,
ab anno M.DCCLXXXII.
Ecclesiæ de Ewny Lelant Vicarius,
Regiæ Celsitudini
Georgio Walliæ Principi e Sacris,
per annos triginta quatuor
Scholæ Grammaticæ apud Truronenses
præsidebat Archididasculus,
Prætorio munere bis ibidem functus.
Ab anno M.DCC.LXXI. ad annum M.DCCC.IV.
in hac Ecclesia Sancto Ermeti dicata
Rectoris Luttrell Wynne, LL.D.
vicem supplebat;
deinceps
ejusdem jam patroni munificentia
ipse Rector.
Uxorem duxit primo Elizabetham Brutton,
secundo Mariam Lukey Warren,
quarum ex illa quatuor, ex hac novem
suscepit liberos.
Natus decimo tertio die Februarii, anno M.DCC.XLVIII.
obiit decimo-octavo die mensis Septembris,
anno Salutis M.DCCC.XXXI.
vixit annos lxxxiii. menses viii. dies xviii.
Qualis erat
suprema indicabit dies,
cui propitius sit
DEUS OPT. MAX.!
The manor of Pelsew is a part of the property devised by Dr. Wynne to
Mr. Pendarves, who is in consequence patron of the church. Present
incumbent, Mr. Pomery.
Treworgan and Truthan are now the property of Mr. Edward Collins,
descendant in the fifth degree from Mr. John Collins, mentioned as
having purchased Treworgan.
Truthen, with the whole manor of Corgol, was acquired by the late Sir
Christopher Hawkins from the See of Exeter in 1805, under the act of
Parliament for redeeming land tax, and since his decease Mr. Collins
has purchased the freehold of Truthen, and resides there.
The manor of Killigrew, purchased by Mr. John Stephens, of St. Ives,
descended to his only surviving son, Mr. Samuel Stephens, Member for
St. Ives, about the year 1750, who built the house at Tregenna; and it
has passed from him, by will, to his second son, the late Samuel
Stephens, Esq. who also represented St. Ives, and who resided in the
house at Tregenna, which his father built. He died at Leamington, Feb.
25, 1834.
This parish measures 4,155 statute acres.
Annual Return of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2935 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 232 8 0
Population, { in 1800, | in 1810, | in 1820, | in 1830,
{ 358 | 431 | 561 | 586
giving an increase of 63½ per cent. in 30 years.