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The Vyvyan Family of Trelowarren
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The origin of the Vyvyan family is lost in legend. In Cornish the word ‘vyvyan’ means ‘to flee’ or escape, and the Vyvyans, in common with the Trevelyans, cherished the legend that a Vyvyan was the last governor of the lost land of the Lyonesse, from which he escaped on horseback as it sank beneath the waves. Thomas Tonkin in his edition of Sir Richard Carew's Survey of Cornwall noted that ‘the Vyvyans anciently bore argent, a lion rampant, gules, standing on the waves of the sea, proper (which waves have of late been left out), and still give for their crest, an horse, argent, on which they tell you the governor saved himself’.
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