Now forasmuch as your Petitioner is advised that upon the death of the said Edwyn Lord Sandys, it is in your Majesty’s power to dispose of the said honor to which of the said sisters and coheirs your Majesty pleases,
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays, that your Majesty would be graciously pleased to permit your Petitioner and her heirs to enjoy the said honour and title.
It is almost unnecessary for me to add that this Petition did not prove successful.
Towednack is now included with Lelant in the borough of St. Ive’s, sending one member to Parliament.
The great tithes belong to Mr. Praed of Trevethow, who, together with the heirs of the late Duke of Bolton, possess the remainder of the parish.
The parish feast is kept on the nearest Sunday to April 28.
This parish measures 2,569 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1483 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 153 8 0 Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 465 | 532 | 582 | 736 giving an increase of 58 per cent. in 30 years.
The extreme northern part of this parish is formed of a narrow slip which runs out considerably beyond the regular boundaries, and terminates on the sea shore; about half of the protuberance is composed of felspathic rocks, belonging to the porphyritic series, and all the rest of the parish is situated on granite.
Tremaine or Tremean is situate in the hundred of East, and hath upon the north St. Mary Wike and Jacobstow, east North Pederwyn, south Tresmere, west Treneglos. As for those names, they are of one signification, viz. the town of stone, or stone town, a place, it seems, notable for those inanimate creatures. This church was endowed by the Abbat or Prior of St. Stephen’s by Launceston, to which abbey it was wholly impropriated; the patronage was in ――――: the incumbent ――――; the rectory in ――――; and the parish rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax 1696, for one year £42. 5_s._ 0_d._ I take it this church is now a chapel of ease to Egloskerry, altogether wholly impropriated as aforesaid.
Tremaine or Tremean is in the hundred of East, and is bounded to the west by Warbstow and Treneglos, to the north and east by part of Devonshire, to the south by Tresmere.