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Very many other extinct Cornisli families had political 

 relations with Truro during the period under review ; thus we 

 find an Egloshayle representing the town in 1335, a Beville also 

 in 1335, and another in 1371 ; a Trenowith in 1377 ; a Tregarrick 

 in 1383 ; and a Tredenham in 1454. 



Another county family, and happily one not extinct, 

 furnished Truro with a burgess in the person of John Trelawney 

 in 1448 ; he was one of the Coroners for the county, and is said 

 to have been returned for Lostwithiel to the same parliament ; — 

 a duplication which frequently occurred, especially during the 

 earlier half of the fifteenth century ; and one which, by its 

 frequency, seems to indicate a certain amount of confusion in 

 the returns for the two boroughs. 



As may be supposed, the records of this early period, 1295- 

 1467, are very imperfect, and anything like a consecutive history 

 of the subject is impossible. Of many burgesses who represented 

 the town, nothing more than this is known ; of many others we 

 only know that they were returned to other parliaments for other 

 constituences ; and of some we can only conjecture that they 

 were allied to Truro by the fact that their names are the names 

 of manors, bartons, etc., in its neighbourhood, of whom Alan 

 de Moreske, 1327, and William Conderow, 1427, may be taken 

 as examples. Nevertheless, the subject is one of great interest, 

 and there can be little doubt but that by a more diligent search 

 than has been possible to the present writer, many important 

 particulars that have escaped his notice, may be found. 



