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2 unusual facts about Jonathan Rashleigh


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Jonathan Rashleigh (4 July 1591 – 1 May 1675), was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1675.

After his father Phillip Rashleigh purchased the manor of Trenant in 1545, Phillip moved his family from Devon to Cornwall to take advantage of the dissolution of the monasteries by buying and re-selling the land acquired around Fowey, it was from this land that John Rashleigh commenced building Menabilly from land acquired in Fowey (from which Menabilly was later completed in its construction by his son Jonathan Rashleigh).



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