At Treravall, in this parish, lived George Bere, the representative of
a very ancient family. There was formerly in the hundred of West a
family of the same name, of great wealth and account in Henry the
Eighth’s days; but whether or not related to this family, I cannot
resolve. Their great estate went with a daughter and heiress to John
Bevill, Esq. Sheriff of Cornwall 16th Eliz. and was no small advancer
of that gentleman’s estate, at that time much impaired, by the elder
brother’s daughter. Their arms are to be seen in the windows and seats
of Leskeard church, where they had much lands.
In this parish is a manor called Trenowith, or the new town; and on it
resided for many generations the family of Hare, who give for their
arms, Azure, on a bend Argent three Torteauxes.