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NOTES ON THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF TRURO, 



PART II. (1469— 1660). 



By p. JENNINGS. 



From 9 Edward IV. (1469) to 33 Henry VIII. (1541-2) 

 nineteen parliaments assembled, for fourteen of which, no returns 

 whatever are known to exist, and in the case of Truro, the names 

 of the representatives in but two are preserved ; those of 17 

 Edward IV., which was held at Westminster, 16 January, 1477-8, 

 and 21 Henry VIII., which met in London, 3 November, 1529. 

 The official returns for the former give liobertus Cinte and 

 Henricus Erowyke as the members for Truro ; for the latter no 

 official returns have been found, but in a list, preserved among 

 the State Papers, are the names of Eogerus Corbet and Johannes 

 Thomas. The identity of these burgesses cannot now be determined 

 with certainty, but it has been suggested (West. Ant., Vol. IX, 

 p. 108) that Thomas may have been a member of the family of 

 that name, which, after living for several descents at Truthwell, 

 Sithney, removed to Trink, in Lelant. 



To the parliament of 37 Henry VIII., 1545, Truro sent 

 Eranciscus Smyth, armiger, and Eobertus Trenkreke, generosus, 

 the latter is also said to have sat for the town in the succeeding 

 parliament, 1 Edward VI., 1547, his colleague then being 

 Nicholas Eandall or Eandolph, but the official returns for 

 Cornwall — county and boroughs — for this parliament are lost. 

 Trenkreke was the father of Eobert Trenkreke, the first 

 Recorder of Truro under Elizabeth, an estimable man, whose 

 virtues are inscribed on a monument in St. Erme Church, and 

 to whom reference is made in the following couplet : — 

 " Let him who has the key of Heaven go seek 

 This wonderful man Mr. Bob Trenkreke." 



In two of Mary's parliaments, those of 1 Mary, 1553, and 1 

 and 2 Philip and Mary, 1554 (Nov.), Truro was represented by 

 John Melhuish. C. S. Gilbert preserves the tradition that the 

 founder of the Melluiish family was a doctor who accompanied 

 King Edward to the Holy Land, and there extracted a poisoned 

 arrow from that prince's arm, He also notes (writing in the year 



