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ON A TUDOR MANSION AT TREFUSIS, IN MYLOR. 

 By HENRY M. JEFFERY, F.R.S., Vice-Pbbsident. 



" The Trefusis family is to be traced as resident at Trefusis 

 in Mylor, the seat of their descendent, Lord Clinton, four 

 generations before 1292." " On the death of George, Earl of 

 Oxford, in 1791, the title" {i.e., the barony of Clinton and Say, 

 created by writ in 1299, and being then in abeyance) "was 

 claimed by George William Trefusis, Esq.,* the descendent in 

 the fourth generation of Francis Trefusis and Bridget Eolle, 

 (grand-daughter of Theophilus Clinton, Earl of Lincoln.) The 

 claim was allowed by the House of Lords in 1794." Lysons' 

 Cornwall (1814). 



The first Lord Clinton lived and died at Trefusis, and in 

 1797 was interred with his ancestors in the parish Church of 

 Mylor. His eldest son, the second lord, a distinguished officer, 

 who was aide-de-camp to the Luke of Wellington, chiefly resided 

 in Devonshire. 



The family seat at Trefusis was thenceforward mostly 

 untenanted, although occasionally let to strangers, and became 

 dilapidated, until it was taken down last year (1890) by the 

 present Lord Clinton (the lord-lieutenant of Devonshire) and 

 replaced by a handsome and loftier, but less spacious, house near 

 the site of the former mansion. The last mansion had been 

 built in the Georgian period, in the form of an indented 

 quadrangle, and enclosed a small quadrangular garden, which 

 was approached by a descending flight of steps. Its ground plan 

 is given herewith. 



In dismantling the edifice, the architect and contractor 

 were surprised to find large portions of ancient masonry, window- 

 frames, mantles, arch-stones and jambs, all of wrought granite, 

 which had been built into the walls, and concealed from view. 



* The pedigree of the family at Trefusis is given hy Col. Vivian in his 

 Heralds' Visitations of Cornwall, p. 463. An amusing sketch of a visit paid to 

 Mr. Trefusis and his Geoi'gian residence, is given by Beckford (Vathek) in 1787, 

 (Travels, Vol. II.), and quoted hy Cyrus Redding, (Itinerary of Cornwall, p. 131.) 



