From "Notes on the Parish of Mylor", published by Hugh Pengelly Olivey 1907

Beware, Ongoing work - This is First Draft Only and likely to contain typographic errors

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G

APPENDICES

Appendix A.
COPY OF AN OLD RATE.

The Garb tithes for "part of Cregoes " appear to have been part of the vicar's endowment ever since its first institution by Glasney. By some means these have now been lost, and by the tithe commutation arrangement are said to be "merged." Mr. Thomas informs me that when Mr. Hoblyn first came into possession he made enquiries about them. Mr. Doble then held the "sheaf of the parish" under a lease from Lord Clinton. These were then taken in kind. The vicar was informed that that portion was unbroken, consequently there was nothing to collect. A compromise was made by the payment of a sum of money (£25 is named). The ground was afterwards cleared of apple and pear and other trees, and broken up. Mr. Thomas says his father remembered orchards and gardens being there, and carting away stones from old walls. Where these had been the difference in the soil was very marked.

These remarks refer more particularly to the "Lower and Middle Cregoes," and middle and part of " Lower Homer," and part of " Higher Outer." The copy from the tithe award, and the tracing from the tithe map, and extract from the old rate, are all illustrative of this subject.

The position of the "Cregoes" are shown on the accompanying tracing from the tithe map, and the description is as follows:

Appendix B.

SHORT reference has been made at pp. 22 and 185 to the connection of the Bonythons with Carclew. Since that portion of this work was written fuller information has come to hand, too late, however, to include it in its proper place.

Richard Bonython, who was the first of this family who owned Carclew, as we have already shown, was the second son of Simon Bonython, of Cury, where the Bonythons were located at a very early period. How early it is impossible to say, but they were certainly there in 125o. They were a distinguished and influential family. They intermarried, amongst others, with the Eriseys, Godolphins, Downes, Tredinhams, Durants, Tresillians, Mundays, Miletons, Pomeroys, Kendalls, Trevanions, Pendreas, Penwarnes, Killigrews, Rashleighs, Vyvyans, Prideauxes, St. Aubyns, and Roscarrocks-all leading Cornish families. Some of these, according to Nordon (see note on p. 24), he considers to be extinct, but as is the case in relation to the family under consideration, and some others named, they are so, only in so far as they cease to hold land in Cornwall.

The following additional inscription on the monument in the church to the various members of this family, has also been omitted at p. 120
"This further inscription is added in memory of Jane Kempe and other members of the Bonython family of Bonython in Cornwall by whom Carclew was held from before 1422 until 1749, the last owner being James Bonython Esqre."

This James Bonython, of Grampound, to whom the property was bequeathed by his relative, Jane Kempe, the daughter of Richard Bonython, was a lawyer, a son of Thomas Bonython, Esq., of St. Columb, whose father, John Bonython, Esq., lived with Mrs. Kempe, and was buried at Mylor, 28th March, 1741, aged ninety-one years. (See Mylor Register).

The above Richard died in 1697. Reskymer Bonython was sheriff in 1619.

The following extracts from the wills of several of the Bonython family are of much interest.

Extracts from the Will of Richard Bonython.

BY his will bearing date the 16th April, 1694, and proved in the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of Exeter on the 15th August, 1698, Richard Bonython of Carclew in the County of Cornwall, Esquire, gave and devised (inter alia) as follows
"Item. One hundred pounds to the poor of the pish of Mylor to be ordered and disposed of by the Viccar and overseers of the poore of the s^d pish for the time being by and wth the advice and consent of some of the most substantiall house holders of the said pish so as the interest and proffitts thereof may at Xmas yearly for ever be given and distributed to and for the reliefe of the poore of the said pish (especially of such poore who are not otherwise chargable) either in clothes or otherwise as the Viccar and overseers of the poore for the time being shall seeme most requisite who shall enter the accounts thereof in a Booke to be kept for that purpose and produce the same yearely at Easter to be pused by the rest of the pishners."
" Item. I give and devise unto the Viccar of the pishe of Mylor and his successors for ever as an augmentation of the vicarage or Glebe of the said pish of Mylor and to be continued from Viccar to Viccar and their successors for ever one field or close of land called Blisco being about four acres now in possession of William Grigg and bounded on all quarters with ye Lands of Sir Peter Killigrew belonging to his mannor of Mylor."
"Item. I give tenn pounds for erecting an almshouse for the poore of the pish of Mylor aforesaid."

NOTE.-The vicar still has the field called "Blisco " or "Blises" as part of the glebe, but what has become of the Christmas gifts to the poor and the almshouse?

No one knows anything about them, and no records can be found.

The gift for the almshouse is referred to in the following extract from Will of Mrs. Kempe (Jane Bonython), dated 17th December, 1745.

" Whereas I have in my hands Ten pounds given by my Father's Will towards erecting an Alms House in the aforesaid parish of Milor, I hereby direct my Executor to pay the said Ten pounds to the Overseer of the Poor of the said parish together with the further sume of Ten pounds in lieu of interest for the said other Ten."

The wills of Katherine Bonithon and of Reskymer Bonython are of some interest, therefore I transcribe them.

Copy of Will of Katherine Bonithon, extracted from District Registry of Bodmin

" In ye name of God, Amen. I Katherine Bonithon Widdow, late ye Wife of John Bonithon Esquire of Carclewe in the County of Cornwall beinge sike of bodie but perfect in minde and memory, thanks be unto God, doe make this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my soul unto God my Creator and to Jesus Christ my sole and onlie Saviour and Redeemer whom I doe acknowledge and doe perfectly believe hath out of his free mercy and goodness by his precious blonde redeemed me and all mankind from ye tyranye of Satan and that all my sinnes comitted in thought worde or deed are by the same and noe other means soe washed awaie as none of them shall rise in judgment against me And for my bodie I comitt unto the earth from whence it had its beginninge and ye same to be buried in some decent manner without any extraordinary charge according to the disposition of my Executor. Nowe for my goods dispose in the manner followinge Imprimis I give unto my grandchild John Bonithon sonn and next heire unto my sonne Richard Bonithon Esqe of Carclewe in the parish of Mylor the summe of tenn pounds to be paid unto the saide John Bonithon by my Executor within one month after it shall please God to take mee out of this miserable worlde and the same to be employed by my overseare Sir Francis Vivian Knight of Trelawarren either in sheepe or what ells he shall think fit for the best advantage of my saide grandchild and not be delivered to his father.
     Item. I give unto Francis and Peter Bonithon two other of my sonne Richard Bonithon's children two (2 ) of my cowes which are at this present in possession of Nicholas Bawden in the parish of Perran, these to be delivered alsoe by my executor within one month after my decease and the same to be left to him for there best advantage.
     Item. I give unto my grandchilde Henry Seyntaubyn Tenn pounds to be employed by his father Thomas Seyntaubyn for his best advantage until he shall accomplish the age of twenty and one years and then my Will and meaning is that the saide Henry shall have both the tenn pounds as the proffit thereof at his owne disposal.
     Item. I give unto my other Grandchild Thomas Sayntaubyn one other Cowe which is in the possession of Margarett Boddy which Cowe I would have to be putt to hire for the saide Thomas Sayntauby's best advantage untill he shall accomplishe the age of twenty and one years and then my Will is that he shall have the proffitt of all that hath bin made thereof.
     Item. I give unto Zenoby Seyntaubyn one other of my grandchildren one other Cowe which is in the possession of John Nicholas in the parrishe of Constenton.
     Item. I give unto my sonne in law Thomas Seyntaubyn the younger who maried Katherine my sole and onlie daughter the rest of all my Goods and chattles undisposed of and doe make him sole Executor of this my last Will and doe intreate my nephew Sir Francis Vivian Knight of Trelowarren to be overseer of this my Will and to see the same to be executed as before, In witness whereof I have hereunto putt my seale and subscribed my name the twentye seven daie of May in the yeare of Our Lord 1622.
Katherine Bonithon.
Signed sealed and delivered in the presents of us Francis Vivian John Alexander
John Penhellick Helston. Proved 25 July 1622."

Copy of Will of Reskymer Bonython of Bonython, Cury:

"In the name of God, Amen. The seven and twentith day of March anno domini 1627. I, Reskymer Bonython of Bonython within the parish of Cury, in the County of Cornwall Esq- being in my perfect senses and remembrance (praysed be God) and knowing that more is certain than death nor nothing more uncertain than this my frail life do make this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following. First I do commend my soul to my Saviour Jesus Christ by whose death and passion I hope to be saved and my body to be buried.
     Item. I do give and bequeath unto Lowdy⁽²⁾ (Loveday) my wife three kine sixe oxen and plough stuffe for one plough and three feather bedds and bedsteeds with bolsters sheets blanketts coverlids and all things necessary belonging to the same.
     Item. I do by this my Will appointe ordaine and make Thomas⁽³⁾ Bonython my sonne my full whole and sole executor of this my last Will and do hereby give unto him all my goods moveable and immoveable of what kind and nature soever what is not formerlie bequeathed and given in this my Will who shall performe this my Will, debts and legacies paid and my funerall discharged. In witness whereoff I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the daie and yeere first above written.
                                                            Reskymer Bonython.
In presents of those whose names followe
Teste me. Johne Polkinghorne Thomas Doull."

Appendix C.

     " A COPY of an act made for the abrogation of certain holy days according to the transumpt lately sent by the King's highness to all Bishops and his graces strict commandmt to signify his further pleasure to all Colleges, religious houses, and curates within their diocese for the publication and also effectual and universal observn of the same. A.D. MDXXXYI.
     " Forasmoch as the nombre of Holy days is so excessively grown and yet dayly more and more by mens devocyon yea rather superstycion was like further to encrease that the same was and sholde be not only prejudicial) to the common weale by reason that it is occasion as well of much sloth and ydleness the very nourishe of theves and vacaboundes and of dyvers other unthriftynesse and inconvenyencies as of decaye of good mysteryes and arts utyle and necessary for the common welthe and loss of mans fode many tymes beynge clene destroyed through the supersticious observance of the said holy days in not taking the opportunitie of good and serene whether offered upon the same in time of harvest but also pernicyous to the soules of many men whiche beying entysed by the lycencyous vacacyon and libertye of these holy days do upon the same commonly use and practise more excesse and superfluitie than upon any other dayes ; and sith the Sabbath day was ordayn'd for mens use and therefore ought to give place to the necessitie and behove of the same whensoever that shall occure mouch rather than any other holy day instituted by man ; it is therefore by the King's highness authority as supreme head in Earth of the Church of Englande with the common consent of the prelates and clergy of this realme in convocacyon laufully assembled and congregate among other things decreed ordeyned and established.
     " First that the feest of the dedicayon of the Church shall in all cases throughout the realm be celebrated and kept on the first Sunday of the moneth of October for ever and upon none other daye.
     " Item. That the feeste of the patrone of every Church within the realme called commonly the Church holy day shall not from henceforth be kepte or observed as a holy day as heretofore hath been used but it shall be lawful to all and singular persons resident or dwellynge within the realme to go to their work occupacyon or mystery and the same truely to exercise and occupy upon the said feeste as upon any other working day except the said feeste of the Church holy day be such as must be els universally observed as a holy day by the ordinance following."

The ordinance goes on forbidding feasts to be kept during time of harvest, which shall be computed from 1st July to 29th September, and excepting "the feasts of the Apostles, of our Blessed Lady and of St. George and also such feasts as wherein the King's judges at Westminster Hall do not use to syte in judgment." The priests were allowed to "synge or say their accustomed service" on the holy days now abrogated, "so that they do not the same solemporely nor do rynge to the same after the manner used in high holy dayes ne do commande or indict the same to be kept or observed as holy dayes."
     " Finally that the feeste of the Nativity of Our Lord, of Easter, of the Nativitie of St. John the Baptiste and of St. Michael shall be from henceforth compted and accepted and taken for the four general offering dayes." It then sets forth the different terms for the Law Courts, and excepts "Ascension day, the Nativitie of St. John the Baptist, All Hallows day and Candlemas day the judges do not site in judgment nor upon Sundayes."
     On this followed a letter from the king to all bishops ordering the same to be observed and sent to all curates, colleges and religious houses, " commanding them and every of them in no wise either in church or otherwise to speak of any of the said dayes or feestes abolished whereby the people might take occasion to murmur or to contemn the order taken therein and to continue in their accustomed idleness." Anno Christi 1536, Henry viij, 28. (Wilkins' Concilia, III, 823-4).

Appendix D

THE following extract from the will of Thomas Peters is given by Mr. Thurstan C. Peter in his Churches of Mylor and Mabe.

"In the name of the everlasting God, Amen, the twenty-sixth of October one thousand six hundred and fifty-four. I Thomas Peters Preacher of the Gospell of Jesus Christ for twentie yeares at Myloure in Cornwall though with little success in soules being in good and perfect memory (blessed be my Lord Jesus) though having some of deathes sentences upon my body, Doe hereby constitute this my last Will and Testament as followeth; Item - I bequeath my eternal soule unto the bosome of the Lord Jesus Christ my never fayleing Advocate and Redeemer who hath opened a fountaine of his bloued to washe it from all sinne and uncleanness . . . . And my body to be interred over against my studdy window neare the brow of the hill neare the pathway to the diall."
He died soon after, and his tombstone, with name and date, is still in good preservation and clear, but several lines of verse, or text, are illegible. Mr. Thurstan Peter further adds: " Thomas Peters was apparently a member of a Fowey family of that name, to which the more celebrated Hugh Peters, Cromwell's chaplain, was related," and adds the following note, " Though related to the family, Hugh's name was not originally Peters, which name he assumed. He was the son of Thomas Dirkwood, by his wife, Martha, formerly Treffry. The Fowey Parish Register contains an entry, `Hugh, son of Thomas Dirkwood, was baptized the 27th June, 1598,' and in the margin some later hand has written `Otherwise Hugh Peters, chaplain and adviser to Oliver Cromwell, beheaded by Charles II on Tower Hill."'

Appendix E

THOMAS Tregosse took his B.A. degree at Exeter College, Oxford, on 5th July, 1655. For two years he preached as a Presbyterian at St. Ives, before he was appointed to Mylor and Mabe, which he held until 1662, when he was silenced for nonconformity, together with about two thousand others, who were also deprived.

The following is from Calamy's description of ejected ministers: " He was born of an ancient and genteel family at St. Ives, near the Land's End, bred in Exeter College, Oxford, under the tuition of Mr. Francis Havell, was a preacher for two years in the place of his nativity, and in '59 removed thence to Mylor, whence he was ejected in '62. He afterwards preached twice a day in his own family, many of the neighbours coming in. For this he was imprisoned three months and ceas'd not to preach to his fellow prisoners 'till he was released by order of the Deputy Lieut. In 1663 he removed into the Parish of Budock, near Penryn, and there held on preaching privately. There being preaching but once a fortnight in Mabe Church he ventured to officiate there in public rather than the people should be destitute, for which he was again laid up three months in Launceston gaol. He was no sooner out than he preached again in Mabe Church and was imprisoned again in the same place. He was very cheerful in his own spirit and exceedingly useful to many by his warm discourses and admonitions, cautions and exhortations in all the times of his confinement. He was a fourth time in custody of the mareschal of Bodmin as a dangerous and seditious person ; but very unjustly, for it could not have been charg'd upon him that either in his preaching or conference he much enveigh'd against the discipline or Liturgy of the Church, much less did he meddle with state affairs. But in September, 1667, he was set at liberty by a special order of the King to the mareschal. After this he had numerous meetings at Penrin, and was mighty successful in his ministry. In 1669 he was sent to the Gaol at Exeter for preaching privately in a house at Great Torrington as he was travelling in these parts, but he was soon bail'd out. From Midst 1669, to May, 1670, he preached without interruption in a meeting place which he hir'd in Mabe parish. Afterwards informers were troublesome and many fines were laid upon him which amounted to £200, and yet Providence so ordered things, so that nothing that he had was seiz'd upon. Afterwards keeping to the statute number he Preach'd five times every Lord's day and repeated in the evening. He preached every Tuesday and Thursday statedly besides occasional exercises. By which labour he soon wore himself away. He dy'd Jan. 18th, 1673. He was one of eminent piety and yet (which is remarkable) dated his conversion after he had been some time in the ministry, nay and a sufferer for nonconformity too. He was one whom God signally own'd, not only by his being instrumental in the conversion of many souls but also by remarkable judgments which befel several that were instrumental in his troubles. For a particular account of which the Reader is referr'd to the printed narration of his life."

It must be remembered that Calamy wrote only on one side of the question and that his sympathies were all with these ejected ministers.

There is no doubt Mr. Tregosse was properly ejected from a church whose doctrines he did not hold, and, whatever his piety may have been, it is very evident he was not a fit person to hold a Church of England benefice. These were unhappy days for all classes of religionists, and although, as is here recorded, on his refusal to conform to church rules he was deprived, it is far from being the fact that those of his way of thinking were the only ones who suffered. Under Charles I there had been civil war between him and the Parliament. Charles was tried and beheaded. Then came the Commonwealth under Cromwell. The Puritans obtained the upper hand, and next came the "solemn league and covenant," which was the Presbyterian form of church government. They and Cromwell's own body, the Independents, were the only Christian bodies tolerated. Those not tolerated were the Church of England, Quakers, and Roman Catholics. " The Prayer Book was forbidden to be used not only in churches but even in private houses." This ordinance is dated 11th August, 1645.

It was a crime for a child to read by the side of a sick parent one of those beautiful collects which had soothed the grief of forty generations of Christians ⁽⁴⁾ " The said book of Common Prayer shall not remain or be from henceforth used in any church or place of public worship in England or Wales; the 'Directory' shall henceforth be used." Any minister neglecting to use the Directory was for such omission to forfeit 40s. To speak or write against it involved a fine of £5. If in any public or private place, or in any family, the Prayer Book was used, each person so offending was fined £5 for the first offence; for the second, £10; and for the third they were to suffer one whole year's imprisonment, without bail. This law came into force on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1645. And further persecution followed. There was a "Committee of Religion" formed, which hunted out all clergy who were loyalists; all who used the church service or taught its doctrines had to go. Anyone could give evidence against a clergyman. There was no evidence on oath, no fair trial, and no attempt at justice being done. Some of the ablest and most devout clergymen of the Church of England were expelled under the Commonwealth. Many died in prison, some fled abroad, or gained a precarious existence in any way they could devise.

It was proposed in the House of Commons that the prisoners should be sold as slaves. Some eight thousand were cast out by this enactment. All sorts of people were thrust into the livings thus vacated by what was called the " Assembly of Divines." Some of them may have been good men, but many were very much the reverse, and held doctrines quite contrary to that of the church, who were not churchmen, but anti-churchmen. Besides their deprivation there were many crimes and barbarities practised against them. Then in 1660 came the restoration of Charles II, and with it some reprisals. The intruding ministers were displaced, and in some cases, not many, were treated as harshly as those they had displaced. It was all bad enough,-but the anti-churchmen were the first offenders. The eight thousand ejected suffered fearfully, and only eight hundred of them survived to come to their own.

The "Act of Uniformity" was passed in 1662, requiring the intruding ministers to retire unless they were willing to conform to church rules. All were given the chance. The great majority did so and remained. Seeing that they, not being churchmen, had enjoyed the church's endowments for sixteen years, though preaching doctrines quite foreign to those of the church, the hardship to them was far less severe than that endured by the clergy in 1646.

" So rapid were the deprivations in 1646 that it was impossible to find substitutes for the ejected ministers in sufficient quantity, and many churches had to go without pastors, and tailors, cobblers, and tinkers were put into the places of deprived incumbents." - Perry's History of the Church of England.

Appendix F.

BISHOPS OF DEVON AND CORNWALL.

DEVON and Cornwall were separated from the see of Sherborne A.D. gog by Archbishop Plegemund, the four suffragans of Sherborne; Wells, Crediton, and St. Germans being consecrated the same day at Canterbury.

BISHOPS OF DEVON

BISHOPS OF CORNWALL

BISHOPS OF EXETER.

BISHOPS OF TRURO

The Bishopric of Truro was founded by an Order in Council, dated December 15th, 1876, under the provisions of a special act (39 and 40 Vict. c. 54).

BISHOP SUFFRAGAN OF ST. GERMANS.

Appendix G.
PARISH BOUNDARIES.

"THE situation of the Bounds of the Parish of Gluvias Renewed by the said principal Inhab" of the said parish. And also by the Principal Officers and other Inhab'ts of the severall parishes Adjoining thereto whose names are hereunto Subscribed this 24th day of June 1776.

"And first the said parish is Bounded agt Mylor by a River Running behind Mr. Enys's Horsepond Hedge all through the Marshy ground under the Hill as far as a Certain Water called Nancody Water just by the Roadway leading from Penryn to Carclew on the Commons from which said water the bounds of Gluvias Continues directly in a line on the left side of the said Road to the Corner of a Certain Common or Croft Called Menhenick Croft which is situated next to the said Road and Nancody Water. From which corner the said bounds Continue on by the Right hand Hedge of the said Croft (next towards Goonreeve Downs) till you come within three or four hundred yards of the end of the said Hedge where there is a Gap or Opening in the said Hedge. From which said Gap the Bound runs directly across the said Common to a certain corner hedge of Sarah's Croft on which a White thorne is fixed and grows taking in one corner of Menhennick Common aforesaid next towards Goonreeve Downs. From which said thorne the Bounds continues on by Sarah's outer Croft hedge till you come to a Round pitt or watering place in Sarah's Croft. From thence continuing by Sarah's outer Croft hedge down to the furthermost corner of the said Sarah's Great Croft Opposite against Mr. Kempe's new Downs Lord Edgeombe's Land and by a vacant plot of ground there called the Green Plot near the Road going from Penryn to Truro. From which corner the Bound Continues in a strait line to the hedge of the said New Downs on the right hand of the said corner from whence it continues by the s^d Right hand Hedge taking in aforesaid road and a Certain Garden Plot near the road going from Penryn to Truro called Irish Woman's Garden as far as the corner of the Left hand Hedge of the wood called Doricas Wood and the style leading through the said Wood to Tresuddris House and from s^d Style the Bound continues on by the Hedge to the Right hand of the s^d Truro Road home to Tresuddris House and the great River where ends the Boundary between Gluvias and Mylor of which of that side of the two parishes. Then the great River sepperates Perran-ar-Worthal parish from Gluvias."

The perambulators next define the boundary between Gluvias and Perran-ar-worthal, and then between Gluvias and Stythians, where numerous rocks, "a line of rocks," "a Bank or heap of stones covered with moss," "a round bank with a pit on the top thereof which is one of the certain Bounds," are noted as boundary marks.

Then between Gluvias and Mabe, and next between Penryn and Gluvias, which in the circuit brings them again to the boundary between Mylor and Gluvias. This begins at the " s^d thwart Hedge above mentioned. Continuing still by the Right hand Hedge of Mrs. Worth's Gwarder Moor next adjoining to the orchard of s^d strait on under the further corner hedge upon a marshy piece of waste ground between Mr. Enys's Gwarder and Mr. Worth's Gwarder home to the Rivulet running through a conduit under Mr. Enys's Gwarder Moor Hedge next to the s^d waste piece of Ground and from thence the s^d Rivulet is the Bound Running under Carvinick estate all along of Carvinick side as far as the end of Mr. Enys's Moor at the further Corner thereof where the River turns into Mr. Enys's Moor there next adjg and ceases to be the Boundary from thence. Immediately Entering into the said Moor the Bound Continues by the Right hand hedge of s^d moor home to the Elbow or Turn of the Hedge in s^d Moor then Likewise continuing Round the s^d Elbow along by the Right hand hedge home to the further corner thereof which hedge from such elbow is Mr. Trefusis's hedge ag° Mr. Enys's Moor and thence directly over the s^d corner hedge into a small moor now planted with divers sorts of Trees belonging to Mr. Enys and immediately upon entering the s^d Moor the Stream of Water or River then becomes the Bound running quite across the roadway from Enys to Mylor Bridge through Mr. Enys's Moor next adg home to the furthermost corner hedge of s^d Moor (the lands of Trefusis) from whence immediately on entering the s^d Moor the River turns down by the Right hand Hedge and is the Bound till you come to a Gutter or Trench athwart the s^d Moor from the River the s^d Trench continuing to be the Bound as far as the further corner hedge of Mr. Enys's new Inclosed Moor next towards Cogoes Mill pool at which corner the River again becomes the Bound up Round Mr. Enys's Moores as far as Mr. Enys's Horsepool Hedge which terminates the Bound of that side of the Parishes of Mylor and Gluvias."

The bounds of Penryn and Gluvias come on again " Until you come to the first style next Carvennick Estate in Mylor which terminates the Bound bet. yd Town and part of that side where begins the Bound ag. between Mylor and Gluvias. The Bound begins again from the above mentioned style age Carvinick and continues down by the left hand Hedge age Carvinick till you come to an Elbow in the s^d Hedge where there is a watering place on the inside of the s^d Left hand Hedge by the side of a Bank on which s^d Bank there are two Large Trees growing and from thence a Small Stream of Water that riseth from s^d watering place runs through the bottom down as far the water across the Road leading from Penryn to Mylor called Bosvanna Water which is the Bound and from thence the s^d River is the Bound Continuing down as far as Gwellan Gollas Creek where begins agⁿ the Bound between Penryn and Gluvias."

In the bound between Penryn and Gluvias is the following: " Starting from the above Creek and continuing by the top of the Cliff . . . home to pt of Mr. Dyer's house Opposite a wall under s^d Causeway from thence entering Dyer's House at a door of the back wing of s^d House and going across the s^d wing and comming out through a Windw of the s^d back pt thereof facing the little lane going up to Beheathland field then the bound begins agⁿ at the hither Corner of Jackson's Orchard and Roscrow's Mead^o or field."

At the end follows a long list of names of principal inhabitants, representing most of the parishes interested, but no one appears on behalf of Mylor or Mabe. There are also a large number of boys.

A vestry meeting was held in the parish church of St. Gluvias on Sunday the 9th June, 1776, and Monday the 24th fixed to meet at the house of John Fuggler, innkeeper, Lower Treluswell, by seven o'clock in the morning, "and from thence make a Perambulation Round the said Parish to view and renew the boundaries thereof as hath been heretofore done, but for several years past hath been neglected." Notice was given to the several adjoining parishes inviting them to meet, and published in each place on the 16th June.

I am indebted to Mr. Enys for the loan of the pamphlet relating to this survey, and have transcribed it as far as it concerns Mylor. The pamphlet is a copy made by him from the original document.

(1) This on tithe map is called Trenoweth Kestle. These tenements bracketed were in or about the Old Church Town in the Cregoes.

(2) Loveday was the daughter of Wm. Kendall.

(3) Thomas was a captain in the Netherlands.

(4) Macaulay's History of England.

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