Sir John Arundell, who was Sheriff of Cornwall in the 10th year of Edward the Fourth, lost his life in an attack on St. Michael’s Mount, then recently seized by Richard de Vere, Earl of Oxford. This gentleman had removed his residence from Efford, on the coast near Stratton, and amidst the sands, to Trerice; and these circumstances gave origin to one of the thousand idle tales invented on such occasions, and which the diffused intelligence of the present time has scarcely yet eradicated,—that some foreteller of future events had warned him of dying in the sand, that he went from Efford to counteract the will of fate, which became accomplished however at the foot of St. Michael’s Mount.
The Sir John Arundell, mentioned by Mr. Tonkin as known by the name of “John for the King,” and as living to a great age, defended Pendennis Castle with the utmost bravery, after he had passed his eightieth year; and his son, Sir Richard Arundell, distinguished himself at several battles in the Civil War. This gentleman, soon after the Restoration of King Charles the Second, was created Lord Arundell, of Trerice; his grandson, the last heir male, died in 1773.
The house retains the appearance of a splendid mansion in times passed by. The south-western wing has been repaired and beautified internally by Sir Thomas Acland.
Tresilian, improved of late years into a handsome seat, is now the residence of Richard Gully Bennet, Esq.
The parish feast is kept on the last Sunday in April.
Newlyn measures 7683 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 6,663 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 451 | 9 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 735 | in 1811, 798 | in 1821, 1045 | in 1831, 1218 |
giving an increase of 65½ per cent. in thirty years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Henry Pooley, collated by Bishop Pelham in 1815.