Arms of Buller: Sable, on a cross Argent, pierced of the Field, four eagles displayed of the First.
Coode: Argent, a chevron Gules, between three moorcocks Sable.
Glynn: Argent, three salmon-spears Sable.
Grosse: Quarterly Argent and Azure, on a bend Sable three martlets Or.
The manor house at Morval is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded with trees; and it exhibits a good specimen of a gentleman’s residence of about two centuries old. The whole place has been very much improved within the last thirty years.
The seat next of importance in this parish is Bray. And Mr. Bond says of it, “Bray, Bre, Brea, in Cornish signify a hill; and this place is situated on the side of Bindown Hill. Bray commands very beautiful prospects.”
The manor of Bray, then held under the Vyvyans, as of their manor of Treviderow, was in the reign of Charles the Second in the family of Heles, who were succeeded by the Mayows, of which family was Dr. John Mayow, an eminent physician in the reign of Charles the Second, who contributed some papers on Respiration, and other subjects, to the Philosophical Transactions. Bray is now the property and occasional residence of Philip-Wynill Mayow, esq.
Another account which I have met with states, that Philip Mayow, of Looe, purchased in the sixth of Elizabeth (anno 1504) the manor of Bree or Bray, in the parish of Morval, of Christopher Copplestone, of Warleigh, esq. These accounts, therefore, vary; and which is right I cannot ascertain.
This Philip Mayow, of Looe, is buried in St. Martin’s church, and has the following epitaph:
Here lyeth the body of Philippe Mayowe, of