St. Wenn; from bur-glase, the green summit or top. Hence the names Burlas and Burlace.
BORMAS. from bor-mas, the fat or fruitful meadow.
BORTHY (DE). From Borthy, one of the names under which S. Enodor was taxed in Domesday. "One Ralph de Borthy held in Dinbegh in Pidre, in 3 Henry IV., by the tenure of knight service, a small knight's fee." (Carew.) The name is from bar-thew, the black bunch or rising ground; or bor-thewy, the rising ground by the water. There is a place called Bortho in Crowan. "Berthy is still the voke lands of a manor pertaining to Penrose, now Boscawen and others." (Hals.)
BOSANKO, BOSANKOE, BOSANQUET, BOSANQUETT. From bos-ancou, the house of grief or sorrow. Lower suggests that this name is of French origin. He says, "Pierre Bosanquet, of Lunel in Languedoc, at the period of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, had seven children, two of whom, John and David, sought refuge in England, and from the latter the various English branches are descended. The name is local and was formerly prefixed with De." This may be so, and still the family may have been originally from Cornwall.
BOSAVERN, BOSAVERNE, BOSSAVERNE. From bos-wern, warne, the house by the alder-tree.
BOSCASTEL, BOSCASTLE. From Boscastle in Lesnewth. "The manor and honour of Bottreaux Castle, now called Boscastle, was the chief seat of the baronial family of De Bottreaux, until its extinction in the male line." (C. S. Gilbert) But see Botreaux.
BOSCATHNOE. From bos-codna, the house on the neck or promontory.
