- • "A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall" edited by Joseph Palsue, Vol. 4, 1872, page 245-6:
Tresemere is situated in the deanery of Trigg Major and hundred of East; it is bounded on the north by Tremaine and the Devon parish of N. Petherwin; on the east by Egloskerry; on the south by Lancast; and on the west by Treneglos.
. . . The church was dedicated in September, 1505, to S. Winwolaus who was the first abbot of Landevenac, founded by Count Grallo in Armorica, France; he is said to have died A.D. 504. . . . In the chancel is a piscina with a gabled or pointed head. The royal arms are dated "G.R. II., 1730." On a panel of one of the pews is a part of a shield on which were impaled the arms of Speccot and Eliot. John the son of Paul Speccot, who is supposed to have RESIded at Trehummer in this parish, married in 1661, Honor, daughter of John Eliot, of Port Eliot.
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