MOUSEHOLE History and Recollections

An e-mail from Chris with interesting news and a snippet.

"I have just managed to obtain a book from ebay its called MOUSEHOLE: History and Recollections by Nettie PENDER. It was published 1970. I haven't read it yet but I think she was quite old when she wrote it. Her address was 1 Kegwin Place, Mousehole, Penzance. The foreword was written by John J BECKERLEGGE and drawings by Nettie's son Jack PENDER.

One paragraph that I read is about the old and new quays

The old Quay was built soon after the year 1393. During research in the British Museum Mr J Ledbury of Truro copied an old manuscript written in latin.

AD1389 a grant of land to build a quay for men and boats in Mousehole by this attested indenture in that we John Trewoof and John Powes grant, give and by this present charter of our intention confirm to John Wills (an ancestor of Nettie's) and John Pouhe attendants of the chapels of the blessed virgin mary and st edmund of Mousehole the committal to the present community of the town of Mousehole wheresoever they perceive the better to protect the hutments at Mousehole, with their appurtenances, to have and to hold to John Wills and John Pouhe and their successors forever delivering to us our heirs twelve pence annually for building the same, whenever it pleases to remain from the present time true; and that we and our heirs will sell our interest in the placed walls, that is to say, to render, abandon and our heirs holding in land with appurtenances to the holding of John Wills and John Pouhe and their successors, to hold it as it is, we warrant it against all men forever. In witness of whose affairs this indenture of desire by us John Trewoof and John Powes and since that by John Wills and John Pouhe, John Trewtheleck, STEPHEN DREUGH and others dated at Mousehole the feast day next before the feast of st gregory, in the 12th year of the reign of King Richard 11, that is 1387.

Chris wonders whether Stephen Dreugh might be a rendering of Stephen Drew. So, for that matter, do I.