St Uny's terriers

For the years 1679, 1727, 1746

These transcriptions © Maxwell Adams 2006
Version 12 August 2006

1679 terrier
"A terriar of the vicaridge house and out-houses together with the orchards gardens and glebe lands of the vicaridge of Unylelant St Ives and Towednacke, in the country of Cornwall and diocese of Exon, made by John Hawkins vicar of the said parishes, and Arthur Edwards church warden and John Hawking and Edmund Uren, church wardens for this present year 1679.

We doe not know or have heard that any vicaridge house or glebeland doth, or ever did belong to the parishes of St Ives and Towednacke abovesaid which are daughter-churches to the abovesaid Unylelant.

All the vicaridge house and all the outhouses together with all the gardens and all the glebelands (and orchards if any were) of the said vicaridge of Unylelant aforesaid have been wholly overwhelmed and covered for severall years last past and also at this present time with sand blown up from the sea insomuch that the present incumbent receiveth no benefitt or advantage thereby.

The best account that we can give of the terriar abovesaid, as it was in former times, by the best information of antient and knowing men, is as followeth:

In the the vicaridge house was one hall one buttery one kitchen and two chambers; wherein Mr Thomas Corey a former incumbent lived till the sand came in thorow the said house upon his table and into his bed and did otherwise so molest and incommode him, that he was forced to quitt it, notwithstanding his diligent endeavours to the contrary.

The out-houses belonging to the said vicaridge were one barne, one stable, one other roome for keeping implements of husbandry and one chamber or hayloft over the said roome - all which out-houses were standing and in use, in the time of the aforesaid incumbent. Since which time the blown sand hath encroached much farther, and is much encreased on the said vicaridge, (as also on other lands adjoyning therto insomuch that the foundations both of the vicaridge house and out-houses aforesaid are covered with great depth of blown sand, and almost all the materialls whereof the walls of the said houses consisted (whether mudde or stone) are lost and buried in the said sand.

One garden, bounded by the glebe land

There were belonging to the said vicaridge severall enclosed fields of good and fertill land containing by supposition twenty acres or upwards of common, adjoyning to the said enclosed land lying on the north side thereof, containing by supposicion between twenty and thirty acres.

The whole glebe lands reach from the high way which leads from St Ives to Helstone on the south east, to a place (or neare to a place) called Chappell Anjoe on the north, and are bounded on the south east and east by the River Hayle; and on the north by the sea; and on the west and south west and south by the mannor of Lelant and Trevethow, the lands of John, earle of Radnor and James Praed, esquire.

In the aforesaid glebelands were formerly tyn mines whereby accrued considerable benefitt and advantage of ffarme-tyn to the former and last incumbents also but none at all to the present.

There was heretofore (as we are informed) another church within the said parish of Unylelant situate between the sea and the church now in use, which hath been some hundreds of years since, lost by meanes of the blown sand: and the present church alsoe is extreamly damnified by the same meanes: the one halfe thereof being fallen and lost: and the blown sand neare the church as also on the vicaridge land as high (if not higher) than the church itselfe at the present."

The 1679 signatories are: John Hawkins vicar, Arth Edwards, John Hawking and the signe of Edmund Uren, church wardens.

1727 terrier
"A terrier of the vicarage of Ewny Lanant (commonly called Uny Lelant) with the chapells of St Ives and Towednack annext situate in the arch-deaconry of Cornwall.

There has been no vicarage house standing in the parish of Ewny Lanant aforesaid within the memory of man not only that having been destroyed but all the glebe lands covered by an immense quantity of sand blown in upon them from the sea. However it appears to us by the copy of an old terrier the original of which (as we suppose) now lies in the custody of the register of the diocese that a vicarage house did antiently belong to the said parish that the glebe did consist of severall inclosed fields containing twenty acres or upwards, and of a wast or common containing above thirty acres, that the whole glebe lands reach from the highway which leads from St Ives to Helstone on the south east to a rock called Chapell Anjoe on the north that they are bounded on the south east and east by the River Hail on the north by the sea and on the west and north west and south by the lands of the manour of Trevethoe and Lelant and that in the said glebe land are considerable tin mines or tin works.

There is a pension of one pound six shillings and eight pence per annum paid to this church by St Ives and another pension of four shillings per annum paid to it by Towednack.

The surplice fees customarily paid to the vicar in this parish are for Easter offerings two pence yearly by ev'ry person above the age of sixteen for writing banns of marriage one shilling, for a certificate of banns published two shillings and six pence, for marrying with banns two shillings and six pence if the parties are parishioners, five shillings if strangers, for churching six pence, for burying one shilling, an exemption from paying mortuaries is pretended.

The tithes of hay milk herbage hops apples pigs geese honey and of all other things whatsoever which are titheable of common right except corn wool and lambs are due in kind to the vicar, and to be paid in such a manner only as the law directs

The furniture utensils etc of the church and chancell are an embroidered pulpit cloth and a cushion of crimson velvet, a communion table and a cloth of scarlet broadcloth with a silk fringe of the same colour, two Common Prayer books folio, one Bible folio, one book of homilys folio, one chest for vestments etc, one surplice, five bells in the tower the communion plate consists of one large silver flagon with this inscription The gift of Sr Nathn Napier Bart Sr Thos Hearle Esq to the Parish of Lelant 1726 weight 55 oz one silver salver with this inscription The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? Ist Cor. 10th Chap. 10th Verse weight 14 oz 3 dwt one silver chalice and cover with this inscription Uny Lelant 1726 weight 32 oz 5 d wt

The parish is charged with the repair of the church chancell and church yard fence

The clerks wages are customarily four pounds per annum The sextons wages are two pounds per annum both are paid by the church wardens. The clerk is appointed by the vicar and the parish jointlyand the sexton by the parish.

[Details about St Ives and Towednack omitted here]

There is a yearly pension of one pound six shillings and eight pence paid by this burrough of St Ives to the mother church

There is a yearly pension of four shillings paid also by this [Towednack] parish to the mother church."

The 1727 signatories are: William Shepherd vicar, James Stevens and Edwd Banfield, churchwardens; Hu. Pawley, Clement Uren, Henry Banfield, and Hanniball Hosking.

1746 terrier
"A terrier of the vicarage of Ewny-Lanant (commonly called Uny Lelant) with the chapells of St Ives and Towednack annext situate in the arch-deaconry of Cornwall and deanery of Penwith made in the year of our lord 1746.

There has been no vicarage house standing in the parish of Ewny Lanant aforesaid within the memory of man not only that having been destroyed but all the glebe lands entirely covered by an immense quantity of sand blown in upon them from the sea. However it appears to us by the copy of an old terrier bearing date in the year of our lord 1727 that a vicarage house did antiently belong to the said parish that the glebe did consist of several inclosed fields containing twenty acres or upwards, and of a wast or common containing above thirty acres, that the whole glebe lands reach from the highway which leads from St Ives to Hellston on the south east to a rock called Chapell Anjoe on the north that they are bounded on the south east and east by the River Hayle on the north by the sea, and on the west and south west and south by the lands of the mannour of Trevethow and Lelant and that in the said glebe land are considerable tin mines or tin works.

There is a pension of one pound six shillings and eight pence per annum paid to this church bye St Ives and another pension of four shillings per annum likewise paid to it by Towednack.

The surplice fees customarily paid to the vicar in this parish are for Easter offerings two pence yearly by ev'ry person above the age of sixteen, for writing banns of marriage one shilling, for a certificate of banns published two shillings and six pence, for marrying with banns two shillings and six pence if the parties are parishioners, five shillings if strangers, for churching six pence, for burying one shilling, an exemption from paying mortuaries is pretended.

The tithes of hay milk herbage hops apples pigs goose honey and of all other things whatsoever which are titheable of common right (except corn wool and lambs) are due in kind to the vicar, and to be paid in such a manner only as the laws direct.

The furniture utensils etc of the church and chancell are an embroidered pulpit cloth and a cushion of crimson of crimson velvet, a communion table and a cloth of scarlet broadcloth with a silk fringe of the same colour, two Common Prayer books folio, one Bible folio, one book of homilys folio, one chest for vestments in etc, two surplices, five bells in the tower the communion plate consists of one large silver fflagon with this inscription The gift of Sr Nathn Napier Bart Sr Thos Hearle Esq to the Parish of Lelant 1726 weight 55 oz one silver salver with this inscription The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? Ist Cor. 10th Chap. 10th Verse weight 14 oz 3 pwt one silver chalice and cover with this inscription Uny Lelant 1726 weight 32 oz 5 pwt

The parish is charged with the repair of the church chancell and church yard ffence

The clerks wages are customarily four pounds per annum The sextons wages are two pounds per annum both are paid by the church wardens, the clerk is appointed by the vicar and the parish jointly and the sexton by the parish.

[Details about St Ives and Towednack omitted here]

There is a yearly pension of one pound six shillings and eight pence paid by this borough of St Ives to the mother church

There is a yearly pension of four shillings paid also by this [Towednack] parish to the mother church."

The 1746 signatories are: Wm Symonds vicar, Hu. Pawley, Willm Curgenven, Thos Richards; and the church wardens George Kelway and Hanniball Hosking.

Notes

I have retained the original spelling and punctuation (putting a fullstop at the end of each paragraph) but modernised the capitalisation.

These transcriptions are based on CRO: ARD/TER/285 (1679), ARD/TER/648 (1727), and ARD/TER/649 (1746).

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