30 ANCIENT COENISH DEED. 



before the rising, and consequently before bis attainder, viz : in 

 Easter term 36 Henry viij, be suffered a recovery in tbe Manors 

 of Treglasta, Tregarrack, Kelliowe, and Pensigbt to Jobn Cory 

 and Eicbard Popbam, who, by their Charter demised the same 

 to tbe said Jobn Wydeslade and Agnes bis wife for tbe term of 

 their lives, remainder to tbe heirs of the said Jobn Wydeslade. 

 He was also seized of tbe Manor of Esteott and other lands, 

 and by bis charter dated 4tb January, 25 Henry viij (1533 — 4) 

 be granted the same to a certain Robert Wydeslade and the 

 heirs male of bis body, in default remainder to the said Jobn 

 Wydeslade and bis heirs. This reversion also was seized by 

 the King who granted tbe whole in 1552, to Reginald Mobun.* 



John Wydeslade left issue. Carew, writing about fifty 

 years after bis execution, states in bis usual quaint style, that 

 *' Wydeslade's sonne led a walking life with his barpe, to 

 gentlemen's bouses, wherethrough, and by bis active qualities, 

 be was entitled Sir Tristram ; neither wanted he (as some say) 

 a bele Imxmd, tbe more aptly to resemble bis pattern."! 

 Unfortunately Carew omits to mention his name, and we have 

 no knowledge of bis issue, if any. 



A William Wydeslade's name appears in a return for the 

 Hundred of Trigg of all tbe landowners in that Hundred and 

 the value of their lands, as holding lands in the parish of Helland 

 worth 10s. a year, and in St. Minver worth 13s. 4d. a year. The 

 return is not dated, but from internal evidence appears to have 

 been made between 1521 and 1623.:]: 



We have stated above that the heads of this family were 

 hereditary Esquires of the White Spur. Weever says of these 

 that they are tbe fourth grade of Esquires (tbe first being tbe 

 Esquires of the King's Body ; tbe second, the eldest sons of 

 knights ; and the third tbe younger sons of the eldest sons of 

 barons) unto whom tbe king himself, together with a title, giveth 

 arms, or createth Esquires§ by putting about their necks a silver 

 collar of SS. and (in former times) a pair of white spurs, 



* Eot. Pat. 6 Edw. VI, part 9, m. 40. 



t Survey of Cornwall, Edit. 1769, p. 131. 



X Hist. Trigg Minor, Vol. II, p. 75 ; III. 86. 



§ The only instance of the creation of an Esquire in modern times known to 

 us is that of John Brown, the late personal attendant on the Queen, whom Her 

 Majesty was pleased so to create. 



