Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . d provisions, including a hundred barrels of powder, tlve hun-dred muskets, one hundred pikes, thirty cannon, three mur-thering pieces, and eighty tuns of wine. Major Ceely wasappointed Governor by the Parliament. In i6s7, fh^ l^st change of ownership in the history of theMount took place, Sir Arthur Basset selling it to John St. Aubynof Clowance, near Camborne, in Cornwall. It was one thing,though, to buy a place in those days ; quite another thing to getpossession of it. At all events, it appears that Mr. St. Aubynfound it necessary to
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . d provisions, including a hundred barrels of powder, tlve hun-dred muskets, one hundred pikes, thirty cannon, three mur-thering pieces, and eighty tuns of wine. Major Ceely wasappointed Governor by the Parliament. In i6s7, fh^ l^st change of ownership in the history of theMount took place, Sir Arthur Basset selling it to John St. Aubynof Clowance, near Camborne, in Cornwall. It was one thing,though, to buy a place in those days ; quite another thing to getpossession of it. At all events, it appears that Mr. St. Aubynfound it necessary to present a petition to His Highness theLord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland andIreland, etc., setting forth that he was prevented from enjoyinghis right and interest in the Mount by a small garrison oftwelve men. On Tuesday, 9th of March, 1557, ^f the Councilof Whitehall, the petition was ordered to be referred to theLords Commissioners of the Treasury for consideration ; but itwas not till March 12, 1659, that an order signed George. 313 314 St. fIDicbaers fIDount Monck (afterwards Duke of Albemarle) issued to Colonel Ben-net to disband the men under his command, and to deliver upthe house and stores and provision of war, etc., to ColonelJohn St. Aubyn. (He had been a colonel for the Parliament inthe Civil Wars ; his brother Thomas having served in a similarcapacity on the Royalist side.) The original order of Monck,accompanied by a contemporary copy of the petition and orderreferring it for consideration, are now in the possession of LordSt. Levan. This ends the military history of the Mount, which has notbeen garrisoned since the Restoration, though its guns have beenfired at enemies ships up to as late a date as the last French War. Since that time the Mount has remained in the St. Aubynfamily for eight generations. For the most part they only usedto live there occasionally, continuing to make Clowance, wherethey had been established since 1180, their prin
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