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and his bones and ashes laid up in an urn of earthen pot, in a bank, or barrow, or tumulus, upon some part of the lands of this barton." But the name means rather the dwelling by the barrow or hillock; from tre-, tren-cryk.

THRISCUTT. See Truscott.

TICE. See Tye.

TIDDY. See Tyhyddy.

TILLIE. Pryce translates Pentillie, "the master's, or head of the family;" and Borlase renders the word pentileu, master of the family; but Pentillie in Pillaton probably derived the last port of its name from Sir James Tillie, who left the property to his sister's son, Mr. James Woolley, who took the name of Tillie.

TINTEN. From Tinten, in the parish of St. Tudy, possessed by the family up to the 14th century, when the heiress married Carminow. (Lower.) From tin-tan, the under fortress; or tin-den, the castle on the hill. Tonkin says John de Tinten held one fee Mort. (of the honour of Morton) in Tynten, and in Trewinneck, 33 Hen. IV.

TOLCARNE, TOLCEARN. From Tolcarn in Gwennap, or Tolcarne in Madron; and from other places so named. Pryce derives the name Tolcarne from Tolcarne in St. Just; which he translates, the stone with a hole (tol-carn).

TOLEMAN. See Tolman.

TOLER. See Toller.

TOLL, TULL. From toll, a hole. There are several places in Cornwall compounded of toll; as Tolcarn, Tolgarrick, Tolgullow, Tolvan, &c.

TOLLER. This name may sometimes be from toller, a

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