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I—STRAY NOTES (No. 1).—The Manor of Penvrane and 
Advowson of the Church of St. Pinnock.—By Stn JOHN MACLEAN, 
F.S.A., Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 
Read at the Spring Meeting, May 23, 1871. 
ie my researches in connection with my “History of the Deanery 
of Trigg Minor” I frequently meet with historical documents 
which, although of no immediate use to me, possess, I think, 
sufficient interest to be noticed in the pages of our Journal, and, 
in some instances at least, may be of value to other students of 
Cornish history. Such is the case with a record which I have 
recently discovered on the de Banco Rolls of Hilary term Ist Edw. 
IV., preserved in the Public Record Office, relative to the Manor of 
Penvrane and the Advowson of the Church of St. Pinnock, a notice 
of which I now submit to the Institution ; and should the Council 
agree with me in thinking that it contains sufficient interest to 
justify its publication, I may hereafter, from time to time, have 
the opportunity of placing at its disposal similar communications. 
The notice which I have now the pleasure to submit is the 
record of an action of Quare Impedit, brought by Sir William 
Botreaux, Knt., against Otho Colyn, Edward Coryton, and Walter 
Hill, Chaplain, upon a plea that they should permit him to present 
a fit person to the Church of St. Pinnock, which was then vacant, 
in his donation. The pleadings are not only of great interest as 
regards the history of the Church and Manor, but they contain, 
also, a vast amount of genealogical information concerning several 
ancient Cornish families. I shall abstract the proceedings as 
briefly as I can, following their general tenour. 
Sir Wiliam Botreaux appeared before the Court, by Richard 
Wolston, his Attorney, and pleaded that he was seized in the 
Advowson of the Church of St. Pinnock, “wt de uno grosso,”* as 
of his fee and right in the time of peace of the Lord Henry 6th, 
* Signifying as apart from a Manor. 
