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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile Second
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Author(s): Matthews, Andy, Gliser, Shane
ISBN(s): 9781783555116, 1783555114
Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
File Details: PDF, 4.31 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
Creating Mobile Apps with
jQuery Mobile
Second Edition

Create fully responsive and versatile real-world apps for

smartphones with jQuery Mobile 1.4.5

Andy Matthews
Shane Gliser

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile
Second Edition

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 Credits

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 About the Authors

Andy Matthews has been working as a web application developer for over 17 years,
with experience in a wide range of industries and a skillset which includes UI/UX,
graphic design, and programming. Andy is currently a senior software engineer at the
online ticketing service, Eventbrite. He is the coauthor of the book, jQuery Mobile Web
Development Essentials, Packt Publishing and has written for Adobe, NetTuts, and .NET
Magazine. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the country, and he has
developed a number of projects for the open source community. He lives in Nashville,
TN, with his wife and four children. You can contact him at andymatthews.net/,
https://twitter.com/commadelimited, or https://github.com/commadelimited.

I'd like to thank my wife for putting up with me through all my

conferences and travel, and the time spent typing into this magic box
we call the Internet. Thanks to my kids for premature gray. Thanks
to all the people I've learned from over the years. It's because of you
that I do this.
Find out about my exciting new card game, Startup, coming to
Kickstarter in 2015 http://startupcardgame.com.
Shane Gliser graduated from Washburn University in 2001, specializing in Java
development. Over the next few years, he developed a love of web development and
taught himself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Having shifted his focus again, Shane's
primary passions are user experience and the mobile web. Shane began working
with jQuery Mobile while it was still in the Alpha 2 phase, and deployed American
Century Investments' mobile site while the framework was still in Beta 2. Since
then, he has rebranded and relaunched his own personal business, Roughly Brilliant
Digital Studios (http://roughlybrilliant.com), as a place where he could start
blogging tips about using jQuery Mobile.

Major thanks goes to Todd Parker, Scott Jehl, and the rest of the crew
at Filament Group, and the many other volunteers who have given
their time and talent to creating jQuery Mobile. Jim Tharp, thank you
for being my mobile partner in crime, and for your continuous, epic
sense of humor.

To the leadership team at American Century Investments, thank you

for believing in my little two-week demo and trusting us to march
down this unknown path.
 About the Reviewers

Anne-Gaelle Colom is an open web enthusiast, advocate for good documentation,

passionate about mobile and web development and the use of technology in higher
education. Anne-Gaelle has been developing for the web since 1995 and wrote her first
mobile application in 1996. She naturally combined these two areas of development as
soon as mobile devices were capable of browsing the web.

Currently, Anne-Gaelle is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster in

London, UK where she specializes in teaching mobile and web-related topics, with
an emphasis on advanced client-side web development, mobile development and
mobile user experience. Anne-Gaelle is the documentation lead for jQuery Mobile
and a member of the jQuery Board of Directors.

I would like to thank my friends from the jQuery teams for their
inspiration and support, my colleagues for their encouragement, and
my family for their love and understanding.
Shameemah Kurzawa started programming since she was at high school. Being
motivated to be a system analyst, she pursued both undergraduate and postgraduate
studies in business information system and software engineering respectively.

She has been working as a web developer/analyst for the past 8 years; she had worked
in the past for Australia's renowned broadcasting company, SBS, and freelances for
her own company since 2010. She is currently working in the financial sector with
exposure to Business Process Modeling (BPM) tools in addition to her wealth of
experience in the web space. Besides work, she enjoys spending her time around
family, traveling, cooking, as well as reading about and trying new web technologies.

She previously reviewed Query UI themes and PHP jQuery Cookbook for
Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my husband and the PacktPub team for the
support and understanding in reviewing this book.

Troy Miles, aka the Rockncoder, began writing games in assembly language for
early computers such as the Apple II, Vic20, C64, and the IBM PC, over 35 years
ago. Currently he fills his days writing web apps for a Southern California based
automotive valuation and information company. Nights and weekends he can
usually be found writing cool apps for mobile and web, or teaching other developers
how to do so. He likes to post interesting code nuggets on his blog, http://
therockncoder.com and videos on his YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.
com/user/rockncoder. He can be reached at [email protected].

This is the first book that Troy has ever reviewed, and it was fun and fascinating to
get to look over an author's shoulder while he worked.

I would like to thank the great people at Packt Publishing for asking
me to be a reviewer and my beautiful wife Janet for putting up with
my insomniac pursuits.
M. Ali Qureshi, is a web designer and developer based in Lahore, Pakistan. Since
2001, Ali has developed creative, interactive, and usable web solutions, making them
a successful technology investment for clients. He has also worked on a number of
successful web apps, Facebook apps, web portals, and authored WordPress plugins
and themes and osCommerce add-ons.

In Oct, 2014, he left a full-time job as a software architect to concentrate on his freelance
work and company, PI Media (http://www.parorrey.com), that he founded in 2002.
He currently runs a number of websites, including http://www.wppim.com, http://
www.flash-greetings.com/, http://www.eventsinsydney.com/, and http://
traveltourism.com/. He regularly makes contributions to the latest tips and trends
in web design, PHP, WordPress and CMS development, Flash ActionScript, and
Facebook App Development on his blog, http://www.parorrey.com/blog/.

Ali works as a consultant, project manager, PHP and Flash AS3 developer, and
sometimes as a designer. He has previously done two technical reviews for Packt
Publishing's books, jQuery Mobile Framework Beginner's Guide and jQuery for
Designers - Second Edition.

When not working, he spends his time blogging and exploring new technologies.
He is an avid sports fan and especially likes watching cricket. Pakistan and Australia
are his favorite teams. Running along Lahore canal early in the morning and the
occasional stroll in Lawrence Gardens, Lahore are things he enjoys a lot.
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work, might also fancy that it once was placed on top of the
elevated rock near it; the contrast of the white marble on top
of the elevated rock, which is of a very dark colour, would
give a singular appearance. When this high rock is shown to
strangers, they are generally told, with a serious face, that
when it hears a cock crowing at Hay (which is a farm just
above it) it turns round three times!

“SHARPY TORRY.

“After leaving the area before-mentioned, we mounted our

horses, and went towards another very considerable rocky
eminence, about half a mile north-east; the road to which
over the Down is full of rocks and stones, so as to prevent a
horse from going other than step and step at times. On our
way we passed a small circle of stones, the remains I rather
think of an ancient Barrow, whose earth had been washed
away by the rains. We shortly after passed another pretty
large circle of stones, just about the diameter to appearance
of the lesser circle of the Hurlers; at length we arrived at the
pile of rocks, called by our guide Sharpy-torry (Sharp-torr,
from its conical shape). We alighted from our horses and
ascended. On the north or north-west side of it there appears
a hollow, more like a large chimney than any other thing I
can compare it to; the outside of which seems to have given
way, and the steep hill below is strewed with an immense
quantity of rocks and large stones, as if carried down or
poured out from this hollow. Whether this was caused by the
operation of fire or water bursting from this hollow or crater,
if I may use the expression, I will not take upon me to say;
but that one or other of these agents burst from this mount
appears to be extremely probable, for the rocks and stones
seem exactly as if they had been tumbled or thrown out of
this crater by a current of some kind. We could not, however,
discover lava; therefore it is probable water might have burst
out, unless the lava has been decomposed. The views from
this place are truly sublime. The spot is nearly the centre of
the broadest part of the county; from it we saw both seas,
north and south, and consequently the intervening land; and
I believe it is the only eminence (except perhaps Brownwilly)
in the eastern part of Cornwall, from whence both seas may
be seen. We also saw in the North Sea a very high land,
which we concluded must be Lundy Island; but the horizon to
the north being rather hazy, I will not take upon me to say
positively that it was that island, though it is probable to have
been so. The prospect was equally extensive east and west,
and as I took a pocket spying-glass with me, we viewed
therewith the vast extent we commanded. We discovered
Launceston Castle with the naked eye; through the glass it
became very visible. We were much struck with the beautiful
and highly-cultivated lands to the east of us, terminated in
part by the high land of Dartmoor. To the westward, nothing
was to be seen but a vast continuance of moor land, without
a hedge, without a tree, for a stretch of many miles. The
cultivated land commenced just below our feet to the
eastward, and the uncultivated from where we stood
westward; the contrast on turning from west to east, or vice
versâ, was astonishing. Our station seemed to be amidst the
wreck of mountains of granite, rocks piled on rocks were
strewed around in awful grandeur. The extreme point of our
western view, dimmed by distance, showed us that elevated
rock called Roach Rock, and we also saw Dosmerry Pool
about four or five miles off; our south view commanded
Plymouth Sound, and a long extent of coast and sea; the
northward in one part was terminated by the sea. The views
brought to my mind the beautiful lines in Ovid:
“Tum freta diffundi, rapidisque tumescere ventis
Jussit, et ambitæ circumdare littora terræ.
Addidit et fontes, immensaque stagna lacusque.
Jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles,
Fronde tegi silvas, lapidosos surgere montes.”
 “Then he ordered the seas to poured abroad, and to swell with furious
winds, and to draw a shore quite round the inclosed earth. He likewise
added springs, and immense pools and lakes. He ordered likewise plains
to be extended, and valleys to sink; the woods to be covered with green
leaves, and the rocky mountains to rise.

“From this elevated spot (Sharp Tor) Hingston Hill

appeared considerably beneath us. After spending some time
on Sharp Tor, we reluctantly descended and went towards
another range of rocks, called Killmarth Hill (which signifies
the Holy Hill or Land, or perhaps Holy Grove), about three-
quarters of a mile off. This range of rocks looks from Sharp
Tor, like an immense wall of artificial masonry, with here and
there turrets ascending, and it brought to my mind Sir George
Staunton’s account of the Chinese wall. When we arrived at
its base, we alighted from our horses, and ascended. This
natural wall-looking range is composed of granite rocks of, I
should suppose some of them, a thousand tons weight. We
traversed along the ridge, with some difficulty, towards the
first turret, and from that to the next and so on, but the
highest, which at a distance looked somewhat like
Wringcheese, was yet to be explored; at length we arrived at
it, and found it, if possible, more curious than Cheese-wring
itself. It consists of immense rocks piled one on the other, to
the height of twenty or thirty feet, and it leans so much, that
a perpendicular dropped from its top would, I may venture to
say, reach the bottom fifteen or more feet from its base; and
from where we stood on the ridge, its support at the base
appeared so slight as if a man could shove the whole mass
over the precipice. Some of the uppermost stones of this pile
are, I should think, from fifteen to twenty feet over, and the
base of the whole fabric appeared so slight, that I imagined
the handle of my whip would have exceeded its thickness.
Upon descending to take another view of this astonishing
structure, we found that the rocks were considerably thicker
on one side than the other; so that the thick parts formed a
counterpoise to the overhanging parts; but this not being
apparent from the spot on which we first stood, was the
cause of our great astonishment. However, though our
astonishment was somewhat lessened, yet much remained at
this stupendous pile. This is the most western turret.
“From this place one of the party and myself, the others
not chusing to accompany us, went to explore the
easternmost turret. Upon our arrival at its base we found
much difficulty in ascending it; the rocks jutted out, one over
the other, in such a manner that, had we slipped but a few
inches, we must have dropped over a considerable precipice.
I arrived first at the base, and attempted to ascend, but fear
pulled me back. Upon my friend’s arrival we thought we
would exert ourselves to get up, as we conjectured there
might be a Druidical basin at top. My friend got up the first
rock by creeping at full length under the overhanging rock;
and I was under the necessity of several times desiring him,
in the most energetic manner, to keep as close in as possible;
for if the body had gone a few inches farther out, it must
have slid over the sloping rock which overhung the precipice.
It took him a few minutes to drag himself in in this manner.
In this creeping state he thought he should have broken his
watch to pieces, as he was obliged, as before stated, to crawl
at full length, there being no possibility; on account of the
overhanging rock, of going on hands and knees. Upon trying
to get out his watch, I earnestly entreated him to desist, for
fear of losing his centre of gravity; for on the left hand was
the precipice, and raising his right side ever so little might
have been attended with most serious consequences. He took
my advice, and by another exertion got far enough in to raise
himself on his hands and knees, and then on his legs. I then
followed him in the same manner. We then examined the
rocks above us, in order to observe the best mode of
ascending them. I first made the ascent, and in the
uppermost rock discovered the largest Druidical basin we had
met with, and observed it had a lip or channel facing the
 south. The horrid precipices on each side prevented my
getting on the top of this rock, as I felt a slight vertigo. I then
got down on a lower rock, and my friend ascended the
uppermost one, and not finding himself dizzy, got into the
basin itself (where I hope he will never go again), and waved
his hat to our companions below. I desired him to measure
the circumference of this basin, which he did with his whip,
and found it to be about three feet and a half in diameter. We
did not take its depth, but I think it must have been about a
foot; it was of a circular form. The next thing to be
considered was, how we should get down again; which at
last, however, we effected nearly in the same manner (only
reversing our movements) as we got up; and I believe
nothing will ever induce me to pay a second visit to the top of
this rock.
“We had a very fine day for our excursion; the sun being
clouded, it was not over warm; and there was but little wind:
had there been more wind, we should not have been able to
ascend some of the places we did, particularly the last. The
air was somewhat hazy over the North and South seas, which
was the only thing we had to regret.
“A finer situation for Druidical[29] residence, rites, and
ceremonies, I think, could not be fixed on anywhere; every
thing around is awfully magnificent; probably in ancient days
these masses of rocks were surrounded with trees. Our guide
indeed informed us that on digging the soil trunks of large
trees have been there discovered; and Kil-mar, Kill-mark, Kil-
marth signify, in Cornish, the Great, the Horse, or the
Wonderful Grove.”
Since writing the above, I have been again to see these curiosities
(but did not visit the top of the easternmost turret), and went by the
way of St. Cleer Churchtown, near which is a curious old well, with a
moorstone cross by it, worth seeing; the stone itself is in form of a
cross, and it has a cross in relief cut on its cross. About a mile from
St. Cleer Church (on the way to Cheese Wring) stands a most
magnificent

CROMLECH,

on a barrow in a field near the high road, on the tenement called

Trethevye. A friend who was with me took a rough measurement of
the upper or covering stone, and calculated it to be about five tons
weight. The stones which form this Cromlech are supposed to have
been brought some miles from where they stand, as there are none
of the same kind near it. That this is a work of art there cannot be a
doubt. One can hardly, however, suppose it possible that such
immense stones could have been brought from a distance, and
erected in the manner they are. What machinery was used baffles all
conjecture. The upper or covering stone has a hole in it; for what
purpose I have no idea, unless to support a flag-pole. One of the
party remarked it might have been made for a chain to drag it by;
but I rather thought it too near the edge for that purpose. Mr.
Britton, in his “Beauties of England and Wales,” has given a vignette
of this Cromlech, which is well executed, and like the original.
Speaking of this Cromlech, Mr. B. says, he believes it has not been
described by any writer,[30] though it is more curious and of greater
magnitude than that of Mona, or any other he was acquainted with.
He says “it standeth about one mile and a half east of St. Cleer, on
an eminence commanding an extensive tract of country, particularly
to the east, south, and south-west; and is provincially denominated
Trevethey Stone. On the north the high ground of the Moors exalts
its swelling outline above it. It is all of granite, and consists of six
upright stones, and one large slab covering them in an inclined
position. This impost measures sixteen feet in length and ten broad,
and is at a medium about fourteen inches thick. It rests on five of
the uprights only; and at its other end is perforated by a small
circular hole. No tradition exists as to the time of its erection; but its
name at once designates it being a work of the Britons, and
sepulchral; the term Trevedi (Trevethi) signifying, in the British
language, the place of the Graves.”
 King Doniert is said to have been the father of St. Ursula,
rendered famous by her unfortunate expedition from Cornwall to the
coast of Flanders, but still more famous by the beautiful picture of
her embarkation, painted by Claude de Lorraine, where the Saint,
accompanied by her eleven thousand virgins, are descending to their
ships in a port, decorated with buildings the most superb, and
surrounded by a distant landscape, imagined and arranged in the
highest style of that celebrated master.
Those ladies, although an exaggeration from eleven to eleven
thousand is suspected by some writers, were to have married a
Roman emperor and his principal officers; but being attacked on
their landing by Pagan Saxons, they defended themselves with a
courage worthy of Cornwall, until all were slain with arms in their
hands. Yet one hardly sees why these heroic females were honoured
among the saints. Their deaths as martyrs are referred to the 20th
of October 383, and their tomb is still shown at Cologne, where a
monastery has been built to their memory.

THE EDITOR.

Not far from King Doniert’s stone monument is another

perpendicular moor-stone, on which is still apparent the figure of a
cross; and on another, not far distant, is a cross shaped like a T.
Without doubt I think this our King Doniert lived and died in his
town and castle of Leskeard, where it was not lawful to bury the
bodies of dead men till the year 700. It is moreover to be noted,
with regard to the inscription on his monument of stone, that about
this time it was customary to pray for departed souls.
Not very distant from the said monument, in the open downs, are
to be seen a great number of moor-stones, some artificially squared,
and placed in a perpendicular manner about three feet high. These
are commonly called the Hurlers: a Druidical monument having been
changed, by the fraud and artifice of the priests, into a supposed
monument of God’s vengeance against persons for not attending on
their masses.
St. Cleer measures 9118 statute acres.

£. s. d.
Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to
Parliament in 1815 5448 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 833 3 0

Population,—
in 1801, in 1811, in 1821, in 1831,
774 780 985 982.

being an increase of about 27 per cent. in 30 years.

GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE.

About a mile north of the church the granite hills make their
appearance, and run across the parish in a curved line. The only
variety which this rock presents are coarse and fine grained masses,
and a kind of fluor, near Carraton Hill, containing hornblende.
Immediately south of the granite, on the side of a barren moor,
masses of compact and quartz ore felspar rock protrude, indicating
the same formation as at Trewist in Alternun. Near the church
hornblende slate prevails, which is said to contain veins of actynolite
and asbestos. A little further south, on the ridge of a barren down,
massive hornblende rock projects in tiers; and loose blocks of the
same stone lie scattered over the side of the hill, and in the adjacent
valley.
The whole of the southern part of the parish is composed of
varieties of this same rock, several of which are well displayed in the
vicinity of Rosecradock.
 [26] Probably this place took its name not from a gate painted red
being there placed, as is generally imagined, but from its being situated
just above Fowey river; Rhie-gat signifies River’s course. The Fowey river
at this place is not above half a mile from the source of Looe river.
[27] The following account of these stones is copied from Mr. Polwhele’s
Cornwall, vol. ii. p. 195.
“In the parish of St. Clere, about 200 paces to the eastward of
Redgate, are two monumental stones which seem parts of two different
crosses. They have no such relation to each other as to warrant the
conclusion that they ever contributed to form one monument. One is
inscribed; the other, without an inscription, called ‘the other half stone,’
seems to have been the shaft of a cross, and originally stood upright, but
has latterly been thrown down, from an idle curiosity to ascertain whether
any concealed treasures were beneath its base. On one of its sides are
some ornamental asterisks, but no letters of any kind. Its present length is
about eight feet; yet it seems to have been once longer, as the upper part
is broken, and displays part of a mortice. The inscribed stone, nearly
square, appears to have been a plinth of a monumental cross, having the
words ‘Doniert rogavit pro anima’ inscribed upon it, in similar characters to
those used about the ninth century. Doniert is supposed to mean
Dungerth, who was king of Cornwall, and accidentally drowned about the
year 872. Of the meaning and intention of this monument, see Borlase,
pp. 361, 362.”
[28] I take some credit to myself for this conjecture as to the original
meaning of “the other half stone.” And I have, long since writing this,
accidentally discovered what strongly confirms my opinion. The authors of
the Beauties of England and Wales, speaking of inscribed stones at
Ebchester, in Durham, say, there is one having the single word “Have” for
Ave on it. This stone is supposed by Horsley to be sepulchral. Have
Melitina Sanctissima. The custom of thus saluting, as it were, the dead, or
taking their last farewell of them, is very well known, and it may seem
almost needless to produce any instances of it. Thus Æneas bids eternal
adieu to Pallas:

Salve æternum mihi, maxime Palla,

Æternumque vale.—Æneid, XI. 97.

Thus also a passage in Catullus,—Ave atque vale.

[29] Druid, Druides, or Druidæ.—Some derive this word from the
Hebrew Derussim, or Drussim; which they translate Contemplatores. Pliny,
Salmasius, Vignierius, and others, derive the name from δρυς, an oak, on
account of their inhabiting, or at least frequenting and teaching in forests,
or because they sacrificed under the oak. Menage derives the word from
the old British “Drus,” which signifies “Dæmon” or “Magician;” Borel, from
the old British “Dru” or “Deru;” whence he takes δρυς to be derived.
Goropius Becanus, lib. i. takes “Druis” to be an old Celtic or German word,
formed from “trowis” or “truis,” signifying a “Doctor of the Truth and
Faith.” Father Peyron, in his book of the Original of the Celtic Language,
will have both Greek and Latin to come from Celtic; and if so, the Greek
word δρυς must come from the Celtic “deru.” The groves where they
worshipped were called Llwyn; thence, probably, is derived the word
“Llan,” signifying now, in Welch, a church. These groves were inclosures of
spreading oak, ever surrounding their sacred places; and in these words,
“1st. Gorseddan,” or Hillocks, where they sat, and from whence they
pronounced their decrees, and delivered their orations to the people;
“2nd. Carnedde,” or Heaps of Stones, on which they had a peculiar mode
of worship; “3rd. Cromlech,” or Altars, on which they performed the
solemnities of sacrifice.
There were several orders of them:—1st. Druids; the chief of these was
a sort of Pontifex Maximus, or High Priest; these had the care and
direction of matters respecting religion; 2nd. Bards; who were an inferior
order to the Druids, and whose business it was to celebrate the praises of
their heroes, in songs composed and sung to their harps; 3rd. Eubates;
who applied themselves chiefly to the study of Philosophy, and the
contemplation of the wonderful works of Nature.
There were Women as well as Men Druids; for it was a female Druid
who foretold to Dioclesian, when a private soldier, that he would be
Emperor of Rome. They taught physics, or natural philosophy; were
versed in astronomy and the computation of time; were skilled in
arithmetic and mechanics; and appear to have been the grand source
from whence the ages in which they lived derived all the knowledge which
they possessed.
Among the numerous places sacred to Druidical worship many
hieroglyphical characters have been discovered, which doubtless were
intended for something relative to their opinions of the Deity to whom
they paid their adoration. But, in addition to this, they taught their pupils
a number of verses, which were only a sort of memorials or annals in use
amongst them. Some persons remained twenty years under their
instruction, which they did not deem it lawful to commit to writing. They
used indeed the Greek alphabet, but not the language, as appears by a
note, chap. xiii. lib. VI. of Cæsar’s Commentaries de Bell. Gall. This
custom, according to Julius Cæsar, seems to have been adopted for two
reasons: first, not to expose their doctrines to the common people; and,
secondly, lest their scholars, trusting to letters, should be less anxious to
remember their precepts, because such assistance commonly diminishes
application and weakens the memory.
The original manner of writing amongst the ancient Britons was by
cutting the letters with a knife upon sticks, which were commonly
squared, and sometimes formed with three sides. Their religious
ceremonies were but few, and similar to those of the ancient Hebrews.
The unity of the Supreme Being was the foundation of their religion; and
Origen, in his Commentaries of Ezekiel, inquiring into the reasons of the
rapid progress of Christianity in Britain, says, “this island has long been
predisposed to it by the doctrine of the Druids, which had ever taught the
unity of God the Creator.” (Extracted from the Monthly Magazine and
Literary Panorama for November 1819.)
[30] This author is mistaken. Norden not only speaks of it as follows,
but has given a tolerably good plate of it. He says, “Trethevic, called in
Latin Casa Gigantis, a little house raysed of mightie stones, standing on a
little hill within a field, the form hereunder expressed. This monument
standeth in the parish of St. Cleer. The cover being all one stone is from A
to B 16 foote in length; the breadth from C to D is 10 foote; the thickness
from G to H is 2 foote. E is an artificial hole 8 inches diameter, made
thorowe the roofe very rounde, which served, as it seemeth, to put out a
staffe, whereof the house itself was not capable. F was the door or
entrance.”
 ST. CLEATHER.

HALS.

St. Cleather is situate in the hundred of Lesnewith, and hath upon

the north, Trenegles; east, Egles-kerry and Laneast; south, part of
Altarnun; west, Davidstowe. For the name of St. Cleather, it refers to
the vicar of the church, and in Cornish, signifies a sacred, or holy
fencer or gladiator; a person that exercises a spiritual sword for
offence or defence in a holy manner; and as in this place by the holy
fencer is to be understood the vicar, so by his sword is signified την
μαχαιραν του πνευματος ὅ ’στι ῥῆμα Θεου, gladium spiritus, quod
est verbum Dei, i. e. the sword of the spirit, which is the word of
God.
In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester
aforesaid, 1294, Ecclesia de Sancto Clede, or Cledredi, in Decanatu
de Lesnewith, was valued to its first fruits 6l. In Wolsey’s Inquisition,
and Valor Beneficiorum, 6l. 11s. 0½d.; the incumbent, Harris; and
the parish rated to the 4s. per pound land-tax, 1696, 71l. 4s. 8d.
Quere, whether St. Clede, or Clete, mentioned in that Inquisition
aforesaid, relate not to St. Clete, or Cletus, Bishop of Rome and
martyr, as the tutelar guardian and patron of this church? whose
history in short is thus: He was born at Rome, of an old family of
gentlemen or noblemen, in the reign of Tiberius; whose father’s
name was Emelianus, a Christian, that placed his son Clete a disciple
under St. Peter; after which he made him and Linnus coadjutors in
the ministry. To Linnus St. Peter gave the charge of affairs within
Rome, to Cletus the charge of the churches abroad; and those two
holy men had both the succession of the Bishopric of Rome, after St.
Peter’s death, (Clement through humility declining that office, who in
justice should have had it,) till the time that Domitian, the son of
Vespasian, enjoyed the empire, who, degenerating from the morality
of his father and brother Titus, raised the second persecution
against the Christians; at which time, amongst many others, St.
Cletus Bishop of Rome received the crown of martyrdom, after he
had held the Bishopric twelve years and seven months and two
days, 26th April, anno Dom. 91, tempore Domitian. He lies buried by
the body of St. Peter at Rome, and is one of the saints mentioned in
the Canon of the Mass, as also in St. Paul’s Epistle to Timothy. He is
said, by order of St. Peter, to have divided the City of Rome into
twenty-five districts or parishes, and to have set up a priest to rule
and govern in spiritual matters over such Christians as were within
the same, and attended their predicaments; whose successors
afterwards in those churches were called cardinals.
See Peransand for the family of Cleathers.
Bas-ill, in this parish, or Bas-yll, in former ages (at best being but
a poor corn country) has been for many ages the seat of the
worshipful family of the Trevillians [Trevelyan]; the present
possessor, Peter Trevillian, Esq. that married Borlace, his father
Arundell.
His ancestor was John Trevillian, Esq. of Nettlecomb in Somerset,
who was sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 17 Henry VII.; his grandson
John Trevillian, Esq. was sheriff of Cornwall 38 Henry VIII. The arms
of which gentlemen are in a field Gules, a demy horse Argent,
issuing out of the waves of the sea Azure, grounded upon a tradition
that one of their ancestors, at the supposed general inundation or
concussion into the sea, of a tract of land called Lyon-ness,
extending from St. Sennan to the Scilly Islands, saved himself by
sitting on the back of a white horse, whilst he swam from thence
through the sea to the insular continent of Cornwall, where he came
safe to land; but when I consider that Solinus, who lived 1500 years
past, tells us that the Cassiterides, by which he means the Scilly
Islands (or the tin islands), in his days were separated from the
coast of the Danmonii, by a rough sea of two or three hours’ sail (as
it still appears to be), and that hereditary coat armours and
surnames in Britain are little above five hundred years old in Britain
or Cornwall, there is small credit to be given to this tradition.
In this parish, or part of Davidstowe, is Foye-fenton, the original
fountain of the Foys River; which well, in old records, is also called
West Fenton, i. e. the west well, to distinguish it from Mark well in
Lanick, otherwise east well; from which places the two cantreds
(hundreds) of Eastwellshire and Westwellshire are denominated. And
to this purpose it is evident, from Carew’s Survey of Cornwall, page
41, that in 3 Henry IV. Reginald de Ferrar held in East Fenton and
West Fenton, several knights’ fees of land of the honour of
Tremeton, which is now East and West Hundreds. (See also St.
Stephen’s by Saltash, of those tenures in 1360.)

TONKIN.

In this parish stands Basil, a word sometimes taken for a herb or

vegetable, sometimes for a vein in the human body, sometimes for
the basilisk or cockatrice, &c.; but here I take it to signify after the
Greek, a basilica or stately building; and although at present this
mansion will not answer the etymology in the extreme latitude or
longitude thereof, yet in probability it formerly did, at least
comparatively so in respect to other houses in the neighbourhood.
This place is the mansion of the ancient, famous, and knightly
family of Trevillyans; the present possessor of Basil is Peter
Trevillyan, who married a daughter of Mr. Nicholas Borlase of
Treludderin. From this Cornish family are descended the Trevillyans
of Nettlecomb in Somersetshire.
Although this parish is commonly called and written St. Cleather,
yet the right name is St. Eledred, and so it is written in the Taxatio
Beneficiorum; which St. Eledred I take to be Ethelred King of the
Mercians, who, after he had held the crown for thirty years, and
governed with great reputation, and especially with much regard to
religion, which (as William of Malmesbury observes) was more to
this prince’s inclination than arms, resigned the kingdom to his
kinsman Kendred, became a monk, and died soon after in the
monastery of Bordeney in Lincolnshire.
There was, however, another St. Ethelred, King of the West
Saxons, who is said by Mr. Browne Willis, in his Notitia
Parliamentaria, to be buried at Wimborne Minster in Dorsetshire,
with the following inscription:
In hoc loco quiescit corpus Sancti Ethelredi Regis West-
Saxonum martyris, qui A.D. 872, 23 die Aprilis, per manus
Danorum Paganorum occubuit.
Perhaps this latter is the true patron.

THE EDITOR.

Bishop Tanner, in the Notitia Monastica, says of Bordeney Abbey,

“Here was a public monastery before the year 697, to
which Ethelred King of Mercia was a great benefactor, if not
the original founder; who upon the resignation of his crown
retired hither, and became first a monk, and afterwards abbat
of this house till his death. It is said to have had three
hundred monks, but was destroyed by the Danes A.D. 870.”
The branch or stock of the Trevelyans settled at Basil is now
extinct. A Sir John Trevelyan, Knight, of that place, is said to have
greatly reduced his fortunes by various law-suits. An anecdote is
anciently related of him in the neighbourhood, that having failed in
making an appearance to some civil suit, a process issued to the
sheriff for attaching his person, who went to Basil accompanied by
several horsemen, and riding into the court-yard made proclamation
of his authority, and called on the defendant to surrender; but he, on
the contrary, threatened the sheriff if he did not depart, with letting
loose his spearmen upon him, and then overturned some hives of
bees, which effectually routed the whole troop.
 Basil now belongs to the family of Mr. Robert Fanshawe, an Out
Commissioner of the Navy Board resident at Plymouth, who made
the purchase from Mr. Tremayne of Sydenham.
This parish contains 3242 statute acres.

£. s. d.
Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to
Parliament in 1815 1998 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 112 0 0

Population,—
in 1801, in 1811, in 1821, in 1831,
134 165 175 171;

giving an increase of 27½ per cent. in 30 years.

Present Vicar, the Rev. J. P. Carpenter, instituted 1823.

GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.

The western moiety of this parish runs much further south than
the eastern, stretching in an irregular form into the granite near
Roughton and Brown Walley.
The rocks adjoining this granitic portion are compost and
schistose felspar, as at Alternun, and in a similar position. These are
succeeded in the vicinity of the church by a peculiar calcareous rock,
consisting almost entirely of hornblend and calcareous spar. The
northern part makes part of a downs, extending almost to
Launceston, and abounding in manganese.
 ST. CLEMENT’S.

HALS.

St. Clement’s is situate in the hundred of Powder, and hath upon

the north St. Herme and St. Allen; on the west Kenwyn; east the
creek of Trevilian River; south and west Truro River, or arm of the
sea.
In Domesday Roll, 20 Wm. I. A.D. 1087, it was taxed under the
Great Earl of Cornwall’s manor (now Duchy) of Mor-is or Mor-es, id
est, the manor or parish of the sea, or a manor situated on the sea,
according to the natural circumstances of the place. And I doubt not
that before the Norman Conquest this church or chapel was extant;
since, at the time of the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and
Winchester (1294), it was valued to the first fruits vil., vicar ejusdem
xiiis. iiiid., by no other name than Ecclesia de Mores, which was
endowed or founded undoubtedly by the Lords of the Manor of
Mores, that is the Earl of Cornwall, whose successors, the Dukes,
still possess the lands, and are patrons of the church. In Wolsey’s
Inquisition 1525, and Valor Beneficiorum, this church is called
Clemens, and valued to first fruits £9.
In this church town is the well-known place of Conor, Condura, id
est, the King or Prince’s Water (viz. Cornwall), whose royalty is still
over the same, and whose lands cover comparatively the whole
parish; from which place in all probability was denominated Cundor
or Condor, in Latin Condorus, i. e. Condura, Earl of Cornwall at the
time of the Norman Conquest, who perhaps lived, or was born here.
And moreover, the inhabitants of this church town and its
neighbourhood will tell you, by tradition from age to age, that here
once dwelt a great lord and lady called Condura.
 This Condurus, as our historians tell us, in 1016 submitted to the
Conqueror’s jurisdiction, paid homage for his earldom, and made an
oath of his fealty to him; but this report doth not look like a true
one, for most certain it is, in the 3rd year of the Conqueror’s reign,
he was deprived of his earldom, the same being given to the
Conqueror’s half-brother, Robert Earl of Morton in Normandy, whose
son William for a long time succeeded him in that dignity after his
death. Is it not, therefore, more probable that this Earl Condurus
confederated with his countrymen at Exeter, in that insurrection of
the people against the Conqueror in the 3rd year of his reign, and
for that reason was deprived of his earldom? Be it as it was, certain
it is he married and had issue Cad-dock (id est, bear or carry-war),
his son and heir, whom some authors call Condor the Second, who is
by them taken for and celebrated as Earl of Cornwall.
But what part of the lands or estate thereof he enjoyed (whilst
Robert and William, Earls of Morton aforesaid, his contemporaries,
for thirty years were alive, and doubtless possessed thereof, as well
as his title and dignity) hath not yet appeared to me. His chief
dwelling and place of residence was at Jutsworth, near Saltash and
Trematon, where he married and had issue one only daughter
named Agnes, as some say, others Beatrix, who was married to
Reginald Fitz-Harry, base son of King Henry I., by his concubine
Anne Corbett, in whose right he was made Earl of Cornwall, after
William Earl of Cornwall aforesaid had forfeited the same, by
attainder of treason against the Conqueror and his sons, and was
deprived thereof.
This Earl Caddock, or Condor the 2nd, departed this life 1120,
and lies buried in the chancel of St. Stephen’s Church, by Saltash,
and gave for his arms, in a field Sable, 15 bezants palewise, 4, 4, 4,
2, 1. (See St. Stephen’s.)
Lambesso, Lambedo, Lambessa, in this parish, parcel of the
Duchy manor of Moris aforesaid, where heretofore was kept the
prison, or place of durance and correction, for the prisoners and
offenders thereof; which barton for several generations was the
dwelling-place of the family surnamed King, duchy tenants, till my
kind friend Henry King, gent. temp. Charles II., for want of issue, by
his last will and testament settled the same upon John Foote, gent.
attorney-at-law, now in possession thereof; who married Avery,
daughter-in-law to Mr. King, by his wife, the widow of Avery, and
daughter of Lampeer, as I take it.
Query, whether Oliver King, Chaplain in ordinary to King Henry
VII., Dean of Winchester, Register of the Noble Order of the Garter,
and one of the principal Secretaries of State to that King, created
Bishop of Exeter the 9th of February 1492, and from thence
translated to Wells 1499, and died 1505, (since Isaac, in his
Memorials of Exeter, saith he was a Cornish man), were not of this
family? who gave for his arms, in a field Argent, on a chevron Sable,
three escallops of the First.
Mr. Foote, as I said, married Avery, and was descended from the
Footes of Tregony; and giveth for his arms, Vert, a chevron between
three pigeons or doves Argent. His son Henry Foote, attorney-at-law,
married Gregor of Cornelly, and is, at the writing hereof, in
possession of Lambesso.[31]
Pen-are, alias Pen-ar, in this parish, parcel of the Duchy manor of
Moris aforesaid, was heretofore the dwelling of my kind friend James
Lance, Esq. a Commissioner of the Peace and Surveyor of the Duchy
of Lancaster during the Interregnum, or usurpation of Cromwell. He
married —— Blackston of London.
This gentleman sold this barton to Hugh Boscawen, of
Tregothnan, Esq. who settled it in marriage with his daughter
Bridget, on Hugh Fortescue, of Filley, in Devon, Esq. now in
possession thereof.
Since writing the above, Mr. Fortescue departed with those lands
to Grenvill Hals, of Truro, gent., who dying without issue, and his
unthrift elder brother, James Hals of Merthyr succeeding as his heir
to those lands, he hath sold the same to one Mr. Cregoe, for about
twelve hundred pounds.[32]
Tre-simple, in this parish, was the lands of I have forgot whom,
who sold it to Henry Vincent, gent. attorney-at-law, descended, as
Mr. Foote informed me, from the Vincents of St. Allen, who married
Kendall of Pelyn; his father, Lampen; and gave for his arms, in a field
three cinquefoils.
By Kendall he had issue Walter Vincent, Esq. barrister-at-law, who
married —— Nosworthy, and a daughter named Jane, married to
Harris, of Park; after by his second wife, daughter of Richard Lance,
gent. he had issue Peter Vincent, to whom he gave this Tresimple,
who sold it to his brother Walter Vincent aforesaid, and Shadrack
Vincent; Edward Vincent, killed by a fall from his horse 1700; and
Mary, married to Joseph Halsey, clerk, some time rector of St.
Michael, Penkwell.
Park, in this parish (id est, a field, or a park for beasts), is the
dwelling of Covin, gent.
Pol-wheele, or Polwhele, in this parish (id est, the head or top), is
situate at the top of a hill; from whence was denominated an
ancient family of gentlemen surnamed Polwhele, who gave for their
arms as underneath: in a field Sable, a saltire engrailed Ermine; and
from that time discontinued the arms of Trewoolla (viz. three owls),
the Cornish motto of which Polwhele’s arms was, Karenza whelas
Karenza, id est, Love or affection seeks, searches, begets, or works
love. The present possessor, John Polwhele, esq. barrister-at-law,
who married Redinge, of Northamptonshire, his father Baskewill of
Dorset, his grandfather one of the daughters of Judge Glanvill in
Devon, his great-great-grandfather one of the coheirs of Ten-Creek
of Treworgan, which place afterwards he made his dwelling.
Lastly, let the reader observe, that if the true name of this church
be St. Clement’s, then its tutelar guardian and patron, to whom it
was dedicated, was St. Clement, Pope and martyr of Rome; whose
name is derived from Clemens, mild, meek, merciful, gracious. He
was born in the region of Calimontana in Italy; his father’s name
Faustine. He was contemporary with St. Paul, and was his coadjutor
or assistant in preaching the Gospel, as is testified by himself in his
epistle to Timothy, wherein he saith, “Help those persons that labour
with me in the Gospel, whose names are written in the Book of Life.”
He appointed that in the seven regions of Rome should be the
notaries, to write the deeds and martyrdoms of the Christians, and
commanded that such as were baptized and had learnt the principles
of the Christian religion, should receive the sacrament of
confirmation, and as some write, he made the Canon of the Apostles
and the Apostolic Constitutions now extant. Finally, for preaching the
Gospel of Christ in derogation of the Roman religion, he was by
command of the Emperor Trajan, with a rope about his neck, and an
anchor fastened thereto, cast into the main sea and drowned,
uttering those last words, “Eternal Father, receive my soul!” after he
had been Pope of Rome nine years, two months, and ten days, the
23rd of November Anno Dom. 102. He gave orders twice in
December, and ordered fifteen bishops, ten priests, and twenty-one
deacons, as Baronius saith.

TONKIN.

The Polwheles of this place are of great antiquity. They flourished

before the Conquest, at which time they were so eminent that Drew
de Polwhele was chamberlain to the Conqueror’s queen; and the late
John Polwhele, Esq. had not long since in his possession, a grant
from her to the said Drew of several lands in this county, which deed
he having sent to a gentleman to peruse, he could never get it back
again. From the time of this Drew or Drogo de Polwhele, the family
have lived with much esteem in this their habitation, till the latter
part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, when Degory Polwhele, on his
marriage with Catherine the eldest daughter and coheir of Robert
Trencreek, Esq. removed to her seat of Treworgan in St. Erme,
where the family resided till the sale of that place to Mr. Collins,
when they returned to their old dwelling.
 The present possessor, Richard Polwhele, Esq. was sheriff of
Cornwall 9 George I. 1723.
The family suffered greatly in the civil wars.
Penhellick was once a considerable seat, although now it is
divided into several premises, in one of which lately resided Mr.
Robert Polwhele, younger brother to John Polwhele, Esq. and in
another Captain Thomas Gregor, of Truro.
Trewhythenick formerly belonged to a family of the same name,
who gave for their arms, Argent, a chevron within a border engrailed
Sable. This manor came afterwards to the Chamonds.
Park also belonged to a family of the same name.
Lambesso belonged to the Tredenhams, but for some time past to
the Footes.

THE EDITOR.

Polwhele has descended from the gentleman who served the

office of sheriff in 1723, to his grandson, the Rev. Richard Polwhele,
author of a history of Cornwall, and so distinguished by his works in
every department of literature; by his early poetical effusions, when
“He lisp’d in numbers for the numbers came;”

by those of his maturer age; by sermons equally sound in learning

and in diction, and persuasive by their eloquence; that no
Cornishman of the present day can presume to place himself, I will
not say in competition, but in the same class of literary excellence
with Mr. Polwhele.
At Penhellick, about seventy years ago, the Rev. John Collins,
rector of Redruth, built a house for his own residence after removing
to the village; he is reported to have selected this spot in
consequence of several persons residing in it having attained great
ages. On his decease, the house and lands were sold to a Colonel
Macarmicke, originally a wine merchant at Truro, who much enlarged
the house, and endeavoured to affix some fanciful new name on the
place. The property has since passed through various hands, and the
house has generally been unoccupied.
This parish contains 3156 statute acres.

£. s. d.
The annual value of Real Property, as returned to
Parliament in 1815 7027 0 0
The Poor Rate in 1831 1100 3 0

Population,—
in 1801, in 1811, in 1821, in 1831,
1342 1692 2306 2885;

giving an increase of 115 per cent. in 30 years.

GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.

The rocks are not much exposed in this parish.

In the southern part they consist of glossy slates, which break
into thick lameller leaves, and they appear to belong to the
calcareous series.

[31] Their son Henry married Jane, the only daughter of Jacob Jackson,
of Truro; and their son and heir, John Foote, married a daughter of Sir
Edward Goodere, member for the county of Hereford, and sister of the
unfortunate Sir John Dineley Goodere, and Captain Goodere. Their son
was the celebrated Samuel Foote, called in his time the English
Aristophanes.
[32] Admiral Carthew Reynolds built a good house here in the latter
part of the last century. He was considered to be an excellent officer and a
skilful seaman; yet he lost his life when a ninety-gun ship, under his
command, was first injured by some other vessel, and then driven on the
flat sands near the entrance of the Baltic in the winter 1811-12.
 COLAN, or LITTLE COLAN.

HALS.

Is situate in the hundred of Pider, and hath upon the north,

Maugan; east, St. Colomb Major; south, St. Enedor; west, Lower St.
Columb.
It is so called from the barton of Little Colon or Golon, contiguous
with the church, on part of which ground perhaps the same was
founded, and endowed with part of the lands thereof. At the time of
the Norman Conquest this district passed in tax under the names of
Carneton, or Ryalton; and the church being built and endowed by
Walter Brounscomb, Bishop of Exeter, 1250, it was by him
appropriated to the canons Augustine of his college of Glasnith, by
him founded. For that we read in the Inquisition of the Bishops of
Lincoln and Winchester into the value of benefices for the Pope’s
Annats in Cornwall, 1294, Ecclesia Sancti Colani, appropriata
Canonicis de Penryn, 4l.; Vicar ejusdem 6s. 8d. In Wolsey’s
Inquisition, 1521, and Valor Beneficiorum, 6l. 14s. 8d.; the
patronage in the Bishop of Exeter for the time being; the sheaf or
rectory in possession of Vyvyan; the incumbent, Bagwell; and the
parish rated to the 4s. per pound Land Tax 1696, 63l. 16s.
From this barton of Colon was denominated an old family of
gentlemen, from thence surnamed De Colon; of which family Roger
de Colon was seised of a knight’s fee of land 25th Edward III., which
he held by the tenure of knight-service. Carew’s Survey Corn. p. 52.
Roger Colon, grandson of the said Roger, having issue only two
daughters, Jane and Margaret, the which Jane was married to John
Blewet, a younger branch of the Blewets of Holcomb Rogus in
Devon, who afterwards was made sheriff of Cornwall the 26th Henry
VI. (when Richard Yeard, Esq. was sheriff of Devon); which Jane’s
estate was no small advance of the wealth of his house, from whom
all the Blewets of Cornwall are since descended, some of whom have
erected a monument in this church in memory of those De Colons;
and several of them have made Colon a font name in their family to
this day, of which I may not in justice forget my late kind friend
Major Colon Blewet, a valiant commander under King Charles I.
against the Parliament army, who married Elizabeth daughter of Sir
William Wrey, Knight, but died without issue; whose brother Robert,
that married Arundell, a base son, succeeded to this his estate, who
had issue another Robert that married Wood, as I remember, and
sold the moiety of this barton of Colon to Robert Hoblyn, of
Nanswiddon, clerk, rector of Ludgnan, now in possession thereof;
the arms of Blewet were, Or, a chevron between three eagles Vert.
The Hampshire Blewets, as Camden saith, gave Or, an eagle
displayed with two necks and heads Gules.
Coswarth, also Cosowarth, synonymous words, the far off, or
remote wood, which place, as Mr. Carew tells us, at the time of the
Norman Conquest, transnominated the French family or name of
Escudifer, i. e. shield-bearer or Esquire, to that of Coswarth; in which
place those gentlemen flourished in great wealth and tranquillity, till
John Cosowarth, Esq. lord of this place, tempore Henry VIII. having
issue, by Williams, one only daughter named Katherine, married first
to Allen Hill, and afterwards to Arundell of Trerice, suffered the
greatest part of his lands and estate to go with his daughter’s
children, and then entailed this manor and barton of Coswarth on
the heirs male of his family, by virtue of which settlement his uncle,
John Cosowarth, succeeded to those lands, who had issue by Sir
William Lock’s daughter, Thomas Cosowarth, Esq. that married
Seyntaubyn, sheriff of Cornwall 26th Elizabeth, who by her had issue
John and Dorothy; and Dorothy was married to Kendall. After the
death of John, Edward Cosowarth his uncle succeeded to this
inheritance of Cosowarth, and married Arundell of Trerice, who had
issue by her Samuel Cosowarth, Esq. afterwards knighted by Charles
I. He married Heale of Fleet, and had issue Edward, Samuel, and
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