Hello All - I keep finding things that raise questions which can only be resolved with your help. Evidently, the entire Hundred of Penwith came into the hands of the Arundell family through marriage - from Margaret Pincera to her daughter, Alice de Lanherne, who married an Arundell circa 1268. This is what the article said: "Lordship of the Hundred of Penwith (the only Cornish hundred in private hands) gave the Arundells the rights to try certain cases of trespass, trespass on the law, debt and detinue, to appoint a jailor for the detention of persons apprehended, to receive high-rent from the lords of the principal manors and to claim the regalia of the navigable rivers and havens, the profits of the royal gold and silver mines, and all wrecks, escheats, deodands, treasure trove, waifs, estrays, goods of felons and droits of admiralty happening within the hundred." All the other hundreds are under the Duchy, it seems. What this little bit of history didn't make clear was when did the Lordship of the Hundred of Penwith cease? If it hasn't, who holds it now? (Wikipedia said the Arundells sold it to the Hawkins, and they sold it to the Paynters in 1832.) May they still claim high-rent fom the lords of the principal manors? Inquiring minds want to know!<g> Cheers, Julia

Hi Julia, funnily enough I just updatedd an article about the Arundells.I dont know when they relinquished the Hundred; but I have the story of how the Arundells of Tolverne had to sell trouver on part of the coastline in Kerrier to the Coodes by 1713. It starts with the search for the imaginary island of New Brasilia ============================================== In the fifteenth century the Arundells owned the Breage manors of Pengwedna, Methleigh and Treworlas; in fact a very large section of the parish. Sir Thomas Arundell, of Tolverne, [d 1630], had listened to the tales of home-comingadventurers of a marvellous island on the coast of America, called Old Brazil, where untold wealth lay ready as spoil for the brave and stout-hearted. He wasted his substance in vain search for this island of beauty and wealth--the pearl of American seas. Where he searched we do not know; only that his search was vain, and that he returned to his own land broken in fortune and probably also in spirit and in health, and that he was compelled to part with his ancestral acres of Tolverne and to make his home on his smaller estate in Sithney and Breage, which still remained to him from the wreck of his fortunes. He was succeeded by his son, John Arundell, [of Truthall1606-71] who served as a Colonel of Horse in the army of the King during the Civil War. This gallant soldier was buried in the north aisle of Sithney Church, and the tablet to his memory, which takes the form of a stone shield, blazoned with swallows, is the only memorial now remaining of this once powerful family. So Sir Thomas sent the family broke and his son John had to mortgage their entire holdings to the would-be millionaire Robert Corker. ROBERT CORKER - Rags to riches to ruin "Corker's father, an Irish ship's doctor, coming into Falmouth harbour by chance, married a Falmouth girl and died a few years later, leaving her with several young children. Robert, the eldest, was placed by his uncle, John Newman, a local attorney, as 'apprentice gratis' to Bryan Rodgers, the leading Falmouth merchant. 'A lad of insinuating worldly parts' he succeeded in 1695 to the business and to 'his master's great house', henceforth known as Corker's house. In 1708 he became receiver of the duchy, acquiring much property in the county, most of it in and around Bossiney. Dismissed by Harley in 1712, he recovered the receivership in 1720, when he procured a patent for a whale-fishery off the coasts of Cornwall, extricating himself from the ensuing fiasco without serious financial loss. In 1720 he was returned for Bossiney [presumably having bought the votes], his only recorded vote being with the Administration on the civil list arrears in April 1729. In that year, in debt to the duchy on the receipts from the tin to the extent of £11,000, he attempted to sell his lands; but 'the bond of the Crown was such a terror to everybody that I could neither sell nor borrow any money on my estate'; and in the end he had to make over all his property to John Hedges, the Prince of Wales's treasurer. He died 1 Mar. 1731, owing Frederick, Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, £23,000 in respect of arrears since June 1727. His estates were sold after his death for the benefit of the Prince. - History of Parliament Online. Sir John Molesworth and Edmund Pridaux picked up all Corker's land that had fallen to the Duchy in 1730. ======================== Things got desperate for the Arundells. and they had to start selling off the farm to retain their seat. They had to give Methleigh to Corker, who then sold it on to Coode. Copy of agreement 7 Feb. 1715 1. Rob. Corker, Falmouth, merch. 2. Sam Coode, Methleigh, Breage, gent. - (1) agrees to sell Manor of Methleigh, Sithney and Breage to (2) for £1200 and 5 broad pieces of gold (copy made 1815) The best reference to the slow process of acccretion of Methleigh is Polsue: John Coode, second son of Edward Coode of Tresa in Sithney , held the barton of Methleigh on lease, under the Arundells, in 1638,and about 1670 he purchased the fee-simple. His son Samuel purchased the Manor and royalties in 1714." The barton is the farmhouse, the fee simple means he bought the house, and in 1714 - the whole manor including the tinning royalties and the trouver from wrecks. This made the Coodes with the Penroses the only smaller landholders with rights over a part of the coastline - something they turned to good effect as they developed the smuggler's haven of Porthleven. William JAGO bought up one of the Breage manors in the late 1600s, after selling the manor of Killigrew to Corker I think, and then married the heiress of Arundell of Tolverne, wth the family later taking the name and arms of Arundell. Samuel Coode had married one of the Jago girls too in 1684, so they all ended up related! JF From: "Julia Mosman" <jwmos99@msn.com> To: <cornish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 6:44 PM Subject: [CORNISH] Private ownership of the Hundred of Penwith > > Hello All - > > I keep finding things that raise questions which can only be resolved with > your help. > > Evidently, the entire Hundred of Penwith came into the hands of the > Arundell family through marriage - from Margaret Pincera to her daughter, > Alice de Lanherne, who married an Arundell circa 1268. > > This is what the article said: > > "Lordship of the Hundred of Penwith (the only Cornish hundred in private > hands) gave the Arundells the rights to try certain cases of trespass, > trespass on the law, debt and detinue, to appoint a jailor for the > detention of persons apprehended, to receive high-rent from the lords of > the principal manors and to claim the regalia of the navigable rivers and > havens, the profits of the royal gold and silver mines, and all wrecks, > escheats, deodands, treasure trove, waifs, estrays, goods of felons and > droits of admiralty happening within the hundred." > > All the other hundreds are under the Duchy, it seems. > > What this little bit of history didn't make clear was when did the > Lordship of the Hundred of Penwith cease? If it hasn't, who holds it now? > (Wikipedia said the Arundells sold it to the Hawkins, and they sold it to > the Paynters in 1832.) May they still claim high-rent fom the lords of the > principal manors? > > Inquiring minds want to know!<g> > > Cheers, > > Julia > >