Francis Tregian the Elder
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Francis Tregian the Elder was a Cornish recusant and landowner in Cornwall. He was arrested and imprisoned, and later pardoned.
Golden Manor House
Tregian's memorial in Igreja de São Roque, Lisbon
Richard Grenville
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Sir Richard Grenville, also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequentl
Francis Tregian the Elder
…Tregian harboured at Golden Manor House a Catholic seminary priest, Cuthbert Mayne, who passed as his steward. On 8 June 1577, the Sheriff of Cornwall, Richard Grenville surrounded the house with some hundred men and arrested both Tregian and Mayne. The assizes was held in Launceston, Cornwall on 16 September 1577…
Contemporary portrait of Sir Richard Grenville, inscribed: An(no) D(omi)ni 1571 aetatis suae 29 ("In the year of Our Lord 1571, of his age 29"). National Portrait Gallery, London.
Richard Grenville, portrait in Heroologia Anglica, London, 1620, inscribed: Rihardus Grenvilus Neptuni proles qui magni Martis alumnus Grenvilius patrias sanguine tinxit aquas ("Richard Grenville, a scion of Neptune, nourished by Mars,... stained the waters with his blood"
Grenville's defence of the Revenge at the Battle of Flores in 1591