246 PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF TRURO. 



Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter, his brother Sir Eichard 

 de Stapeldon, Knt., and his parents William and Mabilla de 

 Stapeldon; for the Eoyal Family; for Simon and Lucy de 

 Triagu ; for his neighbours and relatives, Philip and Mary le 

 Soor, of Tolverne ; for his wife's parents, Stephen and Melora 

 de Trewetheneke ; and for the Mullaborne family, a member of 

 which. Sir William de Mullaborne, was the first Arch-priest. 



In the parliament of 1313, held at Westminster, the 

 representatives of Truro were Robert Person and John Pouna, 

 both of whom are described in the Stannary Polls of the period 

 as tin merchants. Fifteen years later, Person leased lands at 

 Calenick, and a fulling mill of Geoffrey de Pridias. 



John de Cornwall and William Nevill journeyed to Lincoln 

 as the burgesses for Truro in 1332. Like the Killigrews, the 

 Cornwall family of Court in St. Stephen Brannel is said to have 

 descended from a son of Eichard, Earl of Cornwall, by Joan de 

 Valletort ; the elder branch of the family became extinct after a 

 few descents in the fourteenth century. The Corn walls were 

 thoroughly imbued with the freebooting propensities of the age, 

 and on 18th Feb., 1328, four years before John's election as 

 representative for Truro, Thomas Blaket complained that 

 " Eichard de Cornwall, William and John, his sons, and 

 William de Purcelowe, broke his houses at Cornwell, co. Oxford, 

 assaulted him, and took away 7 horses, 16 oxen, 10 cows, 200 

 sheep, and 40 swine, worth £100, felled his trees, fished in his 

 fish-ponds, and carried away trees, and fish, and other goods." 

 (Cal. of Pat. Polls, memb. 29d.) 



John de Polmorna, a member of the ancient family of that 

 name, was elected for Truro in 1338 ; he had represented 

 Bodmin and Launceston in preceding parliaments, and sat for 

 Bodmin again in 1339 ; William de Polmorna, probably John's 

 brother, was one of the most distinguished scholars of his time ; 

 he became Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1350-51, and 

 Archdeacon of Middlesex, 21st Sept., 1361. 



The Hamleys of Halwyn, in St. Issey, and ancestors of the 

 present family of Hamley, of Bodmin, became connected with 

 Truro by the marriage of John Hamley and Margery, elder 

 daughter and co-heir of Walter de Allet or Walter Idless, by 



