250 PAELIAMENTART HISTORT OF TRURO. 



William Trethekel sat for Truro in the parliament of 1414 ; 

 he is probably the same person as William Trethek, who 

 represented the town in 1423, 1429, 1430, and 1432, and Helston 

 in 1420 ; it is also probable that he was a member of the family 

 residing at Trethake, in Lanteglos-by-Fowey, or at Trethake in 

 St. Cleer. 



In 1422 (1 Henry YI) and again in 1424, John Butte of 

 St. Gennys, represented Truro. At the Assession Court of the 

 manor of Tintagel, held on 20th March, 1422-23, he took the 

 site of the castle called " the Island," with the rabbits there, 

 until the next Assession, at the yearly rent of 6s. 8d. (Sir J. 

 Maclean, Trigg Minor, iii, 202), an interesting proof of the 

 ruinous state of this famous castle, even at that early date. 



William Trethake's colleague in 1430 was Thomas Roscrow 

 or Eostruuk, one of the last members of the ancient family of 

 Eoscrow, of Eoscrow and Treluswell ; — a family which must not 

 be mistaken for that of Harrie which settled at Eoscrow in the 

 reign of Henry VIII, and which, like the Taillefers of Borlas, 

 the Peres of Tremayne, and many other families of that period, 

 adopted the name of their family seat. 



Of all the representatives of Truro at this period, none were 

 more highly esteemed than Sir Nicholas Aysshton, the famous 

 judge, a man of unbending integrity, of wide sympathies, and 

 of profuse liberality. He is said to have built the church at 

 Callington, and is justly regarded as one of the greatest 

 benefactors of that town. He was made Serjeant-at-law in 

 1443, and two years later was appointed one of the justices of 

 the bench. His eldest son, Edward Aysshton, represented the 

 town in 1467 (1. Ed. IV.) 



Gregory Tretherf took his seat for Truro in 1436. According 

 to tradition, the family of Trethurflfe was settled at TrethurfEe, 

 Ladock, before the Conquest ; it is rather singular that until 

 now, no member of this ancient and honourable, but now extinct 

 family, living in the vicinity of Truro, should have been selected 

 to represent the town in parliament. John Trethurffe, possibly 

 brother of Gregory, was a EJaight of the shire at the same time, 

 and had Sir Nicholas Aysshton as his colleague, 



