436 liANYHORN CASTLE. 



APPENDIX 2. 



From J. F. TONKIN. 



" Puan Lanyhorne is in the Hundred of Powder, and is 

 bounded to the west by Philly, to the north by the Eiver Fale, 

 to the east by S. Cuby, to the south by Verian. 



In anno 1291 Edward the I^* this Church was valued at cvi' 

 viii*^, having never been appropriated; as for the adjunct of 

 Lanyhorne or rather Hoarne, that is the Church of Iron, I 

 believe it took it from the castle near it, as being in those times 

 a place of great note and strength ; with this castle then, as being 

 the principal place in the parish and the seat of the patrons, I 

 shall begin with the description of it ; which though more 

 properly Lany-horne Castle was commonly called Euan Castle : 

 it stood by the south of the Church, at no great distance from it, 

 the Rectory House being between them, in a pleasant situation 

 enough on the edge of a creek into which a small rivulet empties 

 itself and the river Fale, which is here of a considerable breadth 

 when the tide is in, and surrounded formerly with woods, which 

 are now mostly destroyed. Leland gives this account of the 

 state of it in his time (Itin. Vol 3, fol. 12) 



' ' From Tregony to pass doune by the body of the Haven 

 of Falamuth to the mouth of Lanyhorne Creek or pille on the 

 south est side of the haven is a 2 miles. This creke goith up half 

 a mile from the principal streame of the haven. 



At the hed of this creke standith the castelle of Lanyhorne 

 sumtyme a castel of an 8 tourres [7 tourres] now decaying for 

 lak of coverture ; it longgid as principal house to the Arche- 

 deacons. Thes landes descendid by heirs general to the best 

 Corbetes of Shropshire, and to Vaux of Northamptonshire. Yaux 

 part syns bought by Tregyon of Cornewaul." 



By this one may guess what a stately castle this formerly 

 was ; for in my time was only one tower of the castle standing, 

 which was so large, that if the others were equal to it, the whole 

 building must be of a prodigious magnitude : but I fancy this 

 was the body of the whole, for there is not room enough about 

 it for so great a pile : so that I believe the 8 towers mentioned 



