Cornish Worthies, Volume 2 (of 2) - Sketches of Some Eminemt Cornish Men and Women By Tregellas, Walter H. English A Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book This book is indexed by ISYS Web Indexing system to allow the reader find any word or number within the document. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by underscores. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. Superscripts (eg y^r) are indicated by ^ and have not been expanded. Dates of form similar to 164-2/3 have been changed to 1642/3. This book was published in two volumes, of which this is the second. Obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. More detail can be found at the end of the book. CORNISH WORTHIES. With Map, Fcap. 8vo., cloth, 2s. TOURISTS' GUIDE TO CORNWALL AND THE SCILLY ISLES. =Containing full information concerning all the principal Places and Objects of Interest in the County.= By WALTER H. TREGELLAS, Chief Draughtsman, War Office. 'We cannot help expressing our delight with Mr. W. H. Tregellas's masterly "Guide to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles." Mr. Tregellas is an accomplished antiquary and scholar, and writes with love and complete knowledge of his subject. For anyone interested in one of the most interesting English counties we could recommend no better guide to its geology, history, people, old language, industries, antiquities, as well as topography; and the well-selected list of writers on Cornwall will be of the greatest service in enabling the reader to pursue the subject to its limits.'--The Times. 'A capital Guide to Cornwall.'--The Athenæum. 'Mr. Tregellas has compiled his Guide with great judgment. The general tourist could not desire a better companion.'--The Academy. 'The volume is written in a style much superior to that usually found in guide-books, and every page is full of just the kind of information that is being constantly looked for during a holiday trip.'--The Examiner. 'Altogether this is, far and away, the fullest and handiest Cornish guidebook.'--Western Morning News. LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD, 55, CHARING CROSS, S.W. CORNISH WORTHIES: SKETCHES OF SOME EMINENT CORNISH MEN AND FAMILIES. BY Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 1 WALTER H. TREGELLAS. IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. II. 'Cornubia fulsit Tot fœcunda viris.' JOSEPH OF EXETER (XIIIth century). LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1884. [Illustration: (vignette at beginning of Table of Contents.)] CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE THE GRENVILLES OF STOW; HEROES BY SEA AND LAND 1 INCLEDON; THE SINGER 87 THE KILLIGREWS; DIPLOMATISTS, WARRIORS, COURTIERS, AND POETS 113 RICHARD LANDER; THE EXPLORER 197 THE REV. HENRY MARTYN, B.D.; THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY AND ORIENTAL SCHOLAR 219 OPIE; THE PAINTER 243 THE ST. AUBYNS OF CLOWANCE AND THE MOUNT 279 TREVITHICK; THE ENGINEER 305 VIVIAN; THE SOLDIER 343 INDEX 365 ERRATA AND ADDENDA. Introduction, p. xiv., for Dean Miller read Dean Milles. JOHN ANSTIS. (Vol. i., p. 33.) His heraldic and other collections now form part of the Stowe MSS. in the British Museum. See also p. 78 of that Catalogue. THE ARUNDELLS. 'Sir John Arundell, the Vice-Admiral of Cornwall who took prisoner Duncan Campbell, the Scottish pirate, is said to have been a native of Truro.'--Lysons 'Magna Britannia--Cornwall,' p. 313. (Vol. i., p. 84.) 'In Norden's time' (says Lysons), 'the Arundells had twelve seats in Cornwall.' Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 2 Sir Thomas (afterwards Lord) Arundel of Wardour, 1595, at Strigonium (Gran), says, 'being arrived at the camp at the very instant of that great and onlie Battaile between us and the Turks, unknown unto anie, and uncommanded of anie, I presented myselfe in the front of the armie, where, by reason of my plumes of feathers, of my armour, bases and furniture, all full of gould and silver (a thing there altogether unusual), I was presently marked by all men's eyes.'--Vide 'Count Arundell's Apologie to Lord Burghley.' (Vol. i., p. 58.) THE BASSETS. (Vol. i., p. 107.) Philip Basset was appointed Chief Justiciary of England by Henry III., in place of Hugh le Despenser, circ. 1260, after the attempt of the barons to seize the King's person at Winchester.--(Pat. 45 Hen. III., m. 8; and Rot. Claus., 45 Hen. III., m. 10 dors.) The Royal Cornwall Infirmary, which dates from 1779, contains a tablet which records 'the establishment, permanency, and usefulness of the charity to be chiefly due to the munificent liberality and unwearied exertions of Francis, Lord de Dunstanville.' (Vol. i., p. 36.) HENRY BONE, R.A. (Vol. i., p. 159.) Many beautiful examples of his works are preserved at Mr. Hope's, Deepdene, near Dorking. THE BOSCAWENS. (Vol. i., p. 199.) The well-known non-juror, Bishop Trelawny, was a Dean of Buryan. See the seal of the Deans figured in Rev. W. Iago's paper, R. I. C. Journal, vol. viii., part i., March, 1884. THE GODOLPHINS. (Vol. i., p. 378.) There is a portrait of the celebrated Margaret Godolphin at Wotton, the seat of the Evelyns. The letter signed 'Frances Godolphin,' vol. i., p. 173, should read as signed 'Frances St. Aubyn.' THE GRENVILLES. (Vol. ii., p. 67.) John Grenville (afterwards Earl of Bath) was Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance 1702-5. SIR BEVILL GRENVILLE. (Vol. ii., p. 64.) I am indebted to a recent very interesting biography of Sir Bevill by Mr. Alfred R. Robbins (which I did not see until the chapter on the Grenvilles had gone through the press) for information on the following points, which had escaped my notice. Sir Bevill gave a silver cup to Exeter College. He secured the success of Eliot's election, no doubt on account of strong personal friendship, as an anti-loan candidate about 1628. Bagg wrote to the Duke of Buckingham that he desired to have Eliot, Grenville, and John Arundell 'outlawed and put out of the House' ... 'for here we had Beville Grenville, John Arundell, and Charles Trevanion coming to the election with five hundred men at each of their heels.' He was one of the executors named by Eliot in his will. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 3 He was much encumbered with the debts of his ancestors, and sold (amongst other property) Brinn, his birthplace, to Sir William Noye, the Attorney-General. He objected to the Bill of Attainder against Strafford, and wrote to his fellow Cornishman, Sir Alexander Carew, 'Pray, sir, when it comes to be put to the vote, let it never be said that any member of our country (county) should have a hand in this fatal business; and therefore pray ye give your vote against the Bill.' But this Carew stoutly refused to do. He refused the summons of the Parliament 'to attend the service of the House,' pleading the King's special command to continue in his county to preserve the peace thereof; whereupon a resolution was passed disabling him from continuing to be a member. His praises, after his death, were sung, not only by his old University of Oxford, but also by Sir Francis Wortley in his 'Characters and Elegies,' in 1646; by Robert Heath, in 1650; and by William Cartwright, in 1651. THE KILLIGREWS. (Vol. ii., p. 119.) The 1st Thos. Killigrew was buried at Gluvias, not at Budock. THE ST. AUBYNS. The letter signed 'Frances Godolphin,' vol. i., p. 173, should read as signed 'Frances St. Aubyn.' THE GRENVILLES OF STOW, HEROES BY SEA AND LAND. [Illustration: (beginning of chapter vignette.)] THE GRENVILLES OF STOW, HEROES BY SEA AND LAND. 'Tell me, ye skilful men, if ye have read, In all the faire memorials of the dead, Of names so formidably great, So full of wonder and unenvied love; In which all virtues and all graces strove, So terrible and yet so sweete?' From a 'Pindaric Ode' of 1686. 'The four wheels of Charles's wain-- Grenville, Godolphin, Trevanion, Slanning slain.' Old Cornish Distich. In his 'Worthies of Devon,' Prince, no doubt willingly enough, offers a compromise with Cornwall as to the ownership of the Grenvilles, and quotes Dugdale and Fuller to the effect that both Cornwall and Devon are so fruitful of illustrious men, that each can spare to the Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 4 other a hero or two, even if wrongfully deprived of her own; even Carew has a somewhat similar passage, in which he says, 'The merits of this ancient family are so many and so great, that ingrossed they would make one County proud, which, divided, would make two happy.' But, as it appears to me, Cornwall could not, even if she would, spare the Grenvilles--especially the two most celebrated of them, Sir Richard and Sir Bevill--from her roll of Worthies. True it is that the Grenvilles usually took the sea at Bideford (By-the-ford), for it was their nearest port, though they always kept a keen eye upon the possibility of utilizing Boscastle, Tintagel and other North Cornwall ports; true also that Sir Theobald Grenville (probably with the assistance of a priest named Sir Richard Gornard, or Gurney, and others), who flourished in the reign of Edward III., mainly built the famous great Bideford bridge of twenty-four arches; doubtless, too, they had lands and knights' fees, and a house or houses at Bideford in which they occasionally resided: but the seat of the Grenvilles was, from at least the time of William Rufus, at Stow (which even Prince calls 'their chiefest habitation'[1]), in the parish of Kilkhampton, well within the Cornish border, and separated, on the northern side, from the fair sister county of Devon by the whole of the broad parish of Morwenstow.[2] For five centuries or more their monuments were placed in Kilkhampton Church, on which they bestowed from time to time many benefactions, and of which parish many members of the family were Rectors.