GOLDEN, formerly called “Wolvedon,” is in the parish of Probus, near the Fal, 2 miles east-south-east from the church, and was formerly the seat of the Tregians, one of whom, Francis Tregian esq. in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, on account of his having harboured a priest, Cuthbert Mayne, in his house, lost his estates, and was imprisoned for 20 years until released by order of the Queen in 1597; he then emigrated to Spain, and dying in exile was buried at Lisbon, where his tomb is still shown; nearly the whole of the house has been destroyed, and what is supposed to have been the chapel is now used as a stable; the detached buildings exhibit several stone effigies, and some cells still exist. Cuthbert Mayne, who was captured in this house, where he was lying concealed, and afterwards executed, was beatified by Pope Leo XIII. in 1888, as the first Martyr of the Elizabethan persecution; Golden is now the property of C. H. T. Hawkins esq. and is occupied as a farmhouse by Mr. Samuel Hearle. On the barton of Golden is a Roman intrenchment with a broad rampart and ditch, inclosing a space of about 7 acres; a mile north is another earth work, called “Carvosso, ’’ and there is a third on Barrow Down.