488 PROBUS CHTTRCH AND TOWER. 



No clue is given to tlie reason wliy the Carminowes threw 

 snch obstacles in the way of the erection of the church and 

 tower. But we have seen that Jane Woivedvin, the eldest 

 sister and heiress, married John Tregian, and brought the bulk 

 of the estates to him, and, consequently, they were extremely 

 wealthy, re-building Grolden, and living there, as the old chron- 

 iclers say, in great magnificence ; whilst the second sister, 

 Katherine, married Nicholas Carminowe of Trenoweth. We 

 may conjecture that, probably, the Tregians, wealthy as they 

 were, gave largely to the building of the tower — indeed the 

 legend that a wealthy lady built the tower may refer to Jane 

 Tregian — which excited the envy and jealousy of the younger 

 sister, who incited her husband to throw every obstacle in the 

 way of the completion of the work. However, this may be, 

 as the orders of the Court are not extant, we can only con- 

 jecture, from the completion of the noble structure, that, 

 eventually, the churchwardens succeeded, and were enabled to 

 finish in peace the work they had begun. 



The foregoing document confirms Carew's statement, that 

 the tower was built by the parishioners themselves, and not by 

 Grrace — who may, however, have built the previous steeple, 

 referred to as being ruinous. And as John Tregian removed to 

 Golden in 1514, on the death of his father-in-law, the tower 

 must have been erected between that date and 1547: which is 

 the usually accepted close of the Perpendicular period, and there 

 is no reason, therefore, to assume, from this example, that that 

 style continued to be employed in Cornwall much later than in 

 the other portions of England. 



I would, in conclusion, also suggest that great caution 

 should be observed in accepting the Dedication of the Church to 

 Saint Probus and Grace, who were supposed to be married. 

 In this document the church is described as that of Saint 

 Probus, as in former ones, and, I am of opinion, that this is the 

 correct dedication of the church. 



