John Tregian

John was an "Esquire of the Body" to Henry VIII. From an article on the internet about Chacewater: "The pool also received the small stream draining the valley eastward from Killifreth and have formed the headwater for driving mills. In 1530 John Tregian complained in the Court of the Star Chamber that "whereas he and his father Thomas Tregian were seized for 40 years (ie from 1490) of a myll called Goenchace Myll alias Crugebre[ase] of a course of water, weirs and headweirs now of late by the command of John Camynon Esq. dyvers riotous persons on 24 June a[nn]o 22 entered wth force & toke the yoke of the myll and turned the water oute of its lawful course to your orators great loss".[vi] Furthermore "the course of dyvers fysches was wonte to parse throw the sd water wher dyvers of the kings subjects dwelling nye were relevyd thereby & now maye noe suche fysche passe & the saide fischinge is utterly destroyed". One can be quite certain, however, that John Tregian was very much more concerned with his revenue from the mills rather than his tenant's loss of fish!" From: 'St. Mary Colechurch 105/26', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Henry VIII granted the 6 tenements in Bucklersbury in the parish of St. Mary Colechurch, forfeited by Sir Richard Charleton, to Morys ap Henry and Reynold Wolvedon, during pleasure. In 1513 the same 6 tenements were granted to Wolvedon and John Tregian in survivorship. On Wolvedon's death Tregian surrendered his interest, and the king granted the same 6 tenements, called Charleton's lands, to Richard Hyll or Hill, sergeant of the king's cellar, for ever. Through his marriage to Wolvedon, John aquired the Manor of Golden in Cornwall.