WILL OF WILLIAM TREFFBY. 167 



ancient glass wliicli formerly existed in one of the Hall windows, 

 in wliich. the arms of Treffry were impaled with those of Griffard, 

 Colyn, and Nicol ; whilst his wife, Elizabeth, was the lady, who, 

 in her husband's absence, so gallantly defended the previous 

 house against the French. 



Of William Treffry our notices are rather scanty. Like his 

 family, he was a strong Lancastrian, and exerted himself on be- 

 half of the Earl of Eichmond, immediately after whose acqui- 

 sition of the crown — viz., by Privy Seal, dated 21st September, 

 1485, and Letters Patent, dated 16th October i — he had a grant 

 for life of the Office of Surveyor of Customs and Subsidies, with- 

 in the City of London ; and on the following day^, in consideration 

 of service done at his great cost and expenses, he was granted 

 for life the Offices of Controller of the Coinage of Tin in the 

 Counties of Cornwall and Devon, and of Keeper of the Gaol at 

 Lostwithiel. He was also Groom of the Chamber to the King. 

 His name does not appear in the pedigree of the family recorded at 

 the Heralds' Visitation. His brother Sir John Treffry died on 8th 

 September, 1500, whilst filling the Office of Sheriff of Cornwall, 

 and William executed the Office for the remainder of the year : viz. 

 to Michaelmas, and was appointed for the year following.s Por 

 a gentleman of his degree, he was particularly rich in plate and 

 jewels and choice household stuff and apparel, which by his will 

 he distributed among his friends with no sparing hand. It 

 appears, also, from his will, that he continued the building of the 

 mansion at Powey, which his father had commenced, and he 

 provides that it should be continued after his decease. It also 

 appears that it was intended to construct an ambulatory, or 

 Cloister, on the south side of the Lady Chapel, at Powey, in 

 which he directs that a monument of Purbeck Stone shall be 

 erected ''with three ymages, oon for my broder, another for 

 me, and another for my wife." This work was never carried out, 

 for the " huge large stone," described by Symonds in 1644, "with 

 three pictures of men scratcht upon the stone,"* in memory 

 of the three brothers. Sir John, this William, and their youngest 

 brother, Thomas, was not the sumptuous tombe with the three 



1.— Eot. Pat. 1 Henry VII. Part 1. m 21. 

 2.— Ibid m. 2. 

 3. — Pipe Rolls for the year. 

 * Symoud's Diary, page 71. (Camden Soc. 1859). 



