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by Leland were only turrets, and appendages to this principal 

 part. I wish I had taken a draught of it in season as I often 

 intended ; for this too was pulled down in or about the year 

 1718 by Mr. Grant, who having obtained leave from the Lord to 

 do it, erected several houses with the materials, and turned it 

 into a little town to which ships of about 80 or 100 tons come up 

 and supply the neighbourhood with coals, timber, etc., as the 

 barges do with sand. 



But since the writing of this I am informed that six of the 

 eight towers were standing within these thirty years, of which 

 that which I have mentioned was the biggest and loftiest, as 

 being at least fifty feet in height. 



This belongs to the manor of Elerehy of which I have given 

 a full account in S. Verian, in which the place which gives name 

 to it is seated, though the castle was no doubt the chief seat of 

 its Lords. 



Thomas le Archideakene was one of those that had £20 of 

 land or rent or more 25th Edw. I. He was a knight in parlia- 

 ment for this County 33 Edw. I, and the 6th, 7th, 8th, Edward II, 

 Sheriff of the County in the 7th of the same king, summoned 

 to the House of Lords 13 Edward II. This church is a rectory 

 valued in the King's Book at £12 : patronage in Lord Hobart as 

 heir to Sir J. Maynard ; the incumbent Mr. Canon Grant who 

 succeeded in 1715 Mr. John Dell, as he did his father Henry." 



APPENDIX 3. 



The Rev. John Whitaker B.D., rector of Euan Lanyhorne, 

 1777, wrote elaborate notes on Tonkin's MSS., and these notes, 

 which were in the possession of Mrs. Taunton his daughter, were 

 in 1887 presented to the Royal Institution of Cornwall, and the 

 following extracts contain all the facts of interest relating to the 

 Castle, omitting Whitaker's theories. 



"The contradictoriness of Mr. Tonkin's account of the castle 

 is but too apparent ; not in the posterior information, correcting 

 the prior ideas, but the primary and original ideas of all. 



He considers the church as denominated the church of iron 

 from the castle, this being in those times a place of great note 

 and strength." 



