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32 ST. BLAZEY. CORNWALL. [KELLY's Trengove Richard, beer retailer & soda Vercoe Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), saddler Wherry Phillip J. grocer water manufacturer Vincent William (Mrs.), shopkeeper Waters John, butcher, Doubletrees Turner Archibald, plumber Viol Nellie (Miss), dress maker Williams Mary (Miss), draper Turner Isaac Watts, grocer Wallis Frederick, ironmonger ·williams Thomas, grocer BLISLAND, anciently called "Bluston '' and "Blil!ton purchased by the Molesworths, who in turn disposed of juxta-Montem," but in Domesday "Glustone," is a town it to the Collin.s family; the old hvuse is now in ruina ship, small village and parish, bounded on the west by and cattle sheds have been built with its materials: thtt the river Camel and north-west by the river De Lank, 5 new house erected in 1890, to the west of the former miles north-east from Bodmin and 7 north from Bodmin house, incorporates in its porch a. granite doorway from Road station on the Great Western railway, in the North the old building; the estate pays a modus of £3 to the Eastern division of the county, hundred and petty ses rect()r in lieu of tithes. Lavethan, the 1"&\0idence of J. R. sional division of Trigg, Bodmin union and oounty court Morshood Glencross esq. js a mansion chiefly of the 1;rth district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bodmin and century, although portions of it certainly date from the diocese of Truro. The church of St. Prothus, or St. 16th century, if not earlier, but it has undergone various Pratt, is an ancient and highly interesting edifice of stone, modern alterations. There was a Louse at Lavethan as now chiefly in the Perpendicular style, but with some early as 1475, and shortJy after this date it came into Norman portions, and consis-ting of chancel with aisles, the possession of the family of Kempe: in 1654 William nave of four bays, north transept, south aisle, south tran Kempe sold the place to Christopher Walker, !Uld it sept or Lavethan chapel, south porch, and on the nQrth afterwards passed by a f'6ries of 1eirs to the families of side, continued from the north end of the transept, an Dankyn, 'l're.ise and Morshead: on the E.ale of Sir John embattled tower of three stages, with a stair turret at Morshead's lands a.t the beginning of the 19th century the north-east angle, and buttresses rising into square Lavethan and some of the land passed to his brother, pinnacles; the belfry, pierced by large traceried windows, Gen. William Morshead, the great-grandfather of the oontains 6 bells cast in !790 : the north wall of the nave present holder. In the village is a 01'09S, 4 feet high, and parts of the western walls of the nave and north with a semi-circular head, bearing a Latin cross in transept are Norman work: the spiral staircase leading a sunk panel; by the roadside, at a short disW.nce from to the rood loft remains in the north wall of the north the village, is another, between 4 and 5 feet high, but chancel aisle, and the south chancel aisle retains a now mostly buried, the round head only appearing; this piscina : a modern screen, of flamboyant design, separate8 cross formerly stood by the well ·of St. Prothus; in a field the chancel from the nave; it is richly carved' and deco near is a. good bevelled cross head set up on a post, its rated with gold and colours, and supports a. crucifix and shaft is in another field: this cross in its complete form the figul't's of St. Ma.ry and St. John: the font is Per originally stood in the churchyard of this parish ; at pendicular and consists of a C'ircular basin on an octagonal Lavethan are also t~ heads of crosses removed from base; th~ original Norman font, a rude circular bowl, Blisland moor; at Peverell's cross is a tall and fine with incised ornament on the exterior, is still preset ved: example, 6 feet in height, the arms of the cross projecting the !;Outh transept or Lavetha.n chapBl was fitted with beyond the round head, and near it is a rugged peak pews in 1638· by the Reynolds family, for their use; it called " St. Bartlemy's Tor," on the summit of which are subsequently belonged to t.be family of Treise, and next a chapel and a well; in the grounds at Trewardale is the to the MOTSheads, who converted it into a. private ohapel, head of a cross which originally stood at the intersection with an entrance on the south; it is now 1Uled as a of the r<lads to Bodmin and Cardinham, but was removed vestry : the church has wagon roofs, carried on Mlgel to its present site by Captain Oollins R.N. : it is 3 feet 7 brackets and relieved by carved bosses : on the floor of the inches high and has a Maltese cross on the round head; chancel is a brass to John Balsam, a former rector of this the base, now overgrown, stands in a hedge hard by; on parish (1395), ob. Sept. 1410, including his effigy in a. moor near Carbilly is a Druidic circle, called the " Trip eucharistic vestments, and an inscription; he had been pet Stones," consisting ()f nine upright unhewn stones, previously rector oof Chelsea. (1394) and of Gran.sden rising about 3 feet above the soil; at Carwen is another Parva, Cambridgeshire: in the south aisle is a slate circle, about so feet in diameter, enclosing a smaller one tablet inscribed to Susanna, wife of Christopher Taker, and connected with several more on its exteri{)r, but all gent. of St. Kew, ob. 12th May, 1686 : there is also a much overgrown; on Kerow Down are several scattered monument with three male and three female effigies in circles composed of granite blocks, from 2 to 4 feet high : relief kneeling at a desk, and an inscription to Humfrey on Hawke's Tor is a circle, now imperfect, 152 feet in Kempe esq. of Lavethan, ob. 10th Nov. 1624, and Jane diameter: near Challowater are circular enclosures, and (Peytonne) his wife, and there are other memorials of on 'l'rehudreth down two British barrows. ·Mrs. Richard this family 1728-31 ; one to General William Morshead, Ford, of Pencarrow, owns the manorial rights. The colonel 51st regiment, d. June, 1822, and others to the principal landowners are Mr~. Erlward-C{)llins, J. R. Collins (18n-6o), Thomas and Lean families, and to Morshoo.d Glencross esq. and Sir W. 0. Morshead bart. Robert Robins, gent. and Elizabeth, his wife, x68o: the The soil is clay; subsoil, clay-slate and stone. The chief communriun plate includes a silver-gilt cup, given by crops are oats and barley, with extensiv~ moorland. The George Marrett in 1604: there are 250 sittings. The area is 6,421 acres of land !Uld 24 of wateT; ratroble register of baptisms dates from the y(lar 1564; marriages ,-alue, £3,586; the populat.ion in 1901 was 489. and burials, 1539; the earlier portions consists of frag ments only, imperfect and confused. The living is a WATERLOO, half a mile from the church; TRE rectory, net yearly value £350, including 40 acres of glebe, GENNA, x! north-west; CASSACAWN, 1 mile north· with residence, in the gift of and held since 1892 by the west and PENDREIF or PENDRIFT, a mile north, are Rev. Edward Vernon Oollins M.A. of Exeter College, outlying hamlets. On the common, near Pendreif, is a Oxforrl, who is also rural dean of Bodmin and curate of large rock painted with the royal arms of George Ill. and Temple. A fair is held here for hoTSes, cattle and sheep those of the Duke of Cornwall, Sir A. 0. Molesworth bart. on the Monday after Sept. nth, the festival of St. Pro and Viscount Falmouth, and a figure of Britannia ; these thus ; a fair is also held at Pounds ea wnse on the last designs were executed in 1809 by John Rogers, jun. esq. Monday in November. of Pendreif, in commemoration of the jubilee of Geor~e Trewardale, the seat of Mrs. Edward-Collins, is Ill. ; a brass plate with verses, once affixed to the rock. pleasantly situated on the south side of the parish; the is now in possession of the Roger family : on the Com estate has successively belonged to the Robyns and mon is also a group of rocks called "Pucklerstor." :Browne families, and the house, rebuilt by Robert Robyns Sexton, John Rowe. esq. towards the end of the 17th century, was again re· Post Office.-Edgar Axworthy, sub-postmaster. Letters built by George BI"'wne esq. about 1773, and the pro arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched 4.50 p.m. LetteTS are perty afterwards passed, by marriage, into the Collins received through Bodmin. Postal orders are issued family, the present possessors. Tregaddick, the seat of here, but not paid. The nearest tBlegraph and money Sir Warwick Charles Morshead bart. J.P. is pleasantly ordar office is at St. :Brewa.rd, 3 miles distant situated on an eminence overlooking the Camel and De A School Board of 5 members was formed Sept. 10, 1875• Lank rivers. Trewint, now the residence' of Mr. S. J. for the united district of Bli~land & Temple; Hedley Cowling, was the seat of the family of Trewynt from the Rich, Trehwedreath, clerk to 1 he board time of King John, or earlier, to the reign of Henry VII.