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St. Agnes Beacon is on a pyramidal hill near the town, 621 feet above the level of the sea; it is formed out of an antient cairn or tumulus, and was used as a beacon during the alarm of invasion in the beginning of the prese century.

Boscastle, (which name is a corruption of Bottre castle,) is in the hundred of Lesnewth, and on the nortewest coast, not far to the north-east of Tintagell Head. It s a poor little place, but in a very romantic situation. The castle from which it takes its name, is no longer standing It has a weekly market.

Loery week the Jan. 24; last Thursday in Octo- | parish comprehends an important mining district, and had Strine Toeslay; May 1; Sept. 10. Gram- a population of 6642, in 1831. There is a harbour at Tre Gdwithney, Aug. 5. Gweek, venaunce, in this parish, which has been much improved f Dust in Feb 20. June 1; nearest Wednesday to late years; the pilchard fishery has been established bere Get 2 Helstone, Saturday before Mid- since the beginning of the present century. St. Agnes was bere Palm Sunday; Whit Mon- anciently called Breanick or Bryanick. 149, Ct. 25; Second and Third Saturday St. Agnes is a parochial chapelry, united with the vier Eve Kellington. May 4; Sept. 19; Nov. age of St. Perran-in-Zabulo or Piranzabuloe. The two are Holy Thursday: Three weeks after Aug. stated to produce 4197. net yearly revenue, and are in te FS Thursday in March; Third Thurs- gift of the dean and chapter of Exeter, in whose pecular W: Maniay: Old Michaelmas-day; Nov.jurisdiction they are. In a dingle called Chapel Coute Leasant, Surove Monday; Monday before was an antient chapel called Porth Chapel, the ruins . H. Thursday; Aug. 15; Oct. 2. Lost- which were taken down 1780; there are the remains d 15.4; dept 4: Nov. 13. Marazion, Sept. 29. an antient chapel at Malow or Morlah, in the parish f Ar 23 June 11; July 28; First Friday in St. Agnes. There are a free-school, a sunday-school, arad Pals. April is; Sept. 21. Penryn, Wed- three dissenting places of worship. Opie, the painter, was Før Mürch 6; May 12: July 7; Dec. 21. Pen- born at St. Agnes. Mit: Thurday after Trinity Sunday; Sept. 8; afin Alvent Sunday. Redruth, Easter TuesMay 2 Oct 12: Nov. 3. St. Austell, Maundy ThursW: Th way; First Friday after July 23, and Oct. 3. Saltash, Feb. 2; July 25. St. Blazey, Feb. 2. Thunday after Midient Sunday; June 9; afe N4. 12. St. German's, May 28, Aug. 1. ay before Advent. Stratton, May 18, Nov. 8; Summercourt, Holy Thursday; July 28; Sept. 25. Leurore, Aug. 21: Oct. 29. Tregony, May 3; July 25; Treganatha, May 6; Aug. 6. Truro, Wednesday Kies. Wild Wednesday: Nov. 19. Wadebridge. June 22; Oct. 10. Week, St. Mary, July 29; 11. Wednesday before Christmas-day. West Looe, nurra. Turns, &c.-Cornwall was formerly divided seven hundreds – Conarton, Fawiton, Pawton, Rialton, Inta or Tibesterna, and Winneton or WinThere are now nine hundreds; Stratton hundred | Edred, on the east along the bank of the Letewth and West hundreds, to the west of Trigg hundred, to the west of Lesnewth; Pyder and Aunt La preds, west of Trigg and West hundreds; and eta 2 and Kerner at the western end of the county. In tar alvore enumeration, when two hundreds are mentioned r, the most northerly is named first. According to Brase, it is not easy to discover the limits of the antient sons, or to reconcile them with the present. He conthat Conarton included the modern Penwith, and It the modern Powder; Winnenton the modern Kerret, and Stratton the modern Stratton, Lesnewth and 1. Fawiton the modern East and part of West; Pawthe remainder of West and part of Pyder, and Rialton 1. res of Pyder.

Te number of parishes according to Camden is 161; acord ng to ethers as mentioned by Carew, 180; the last population returns give 205, including the parish of Maker, this partly in Devonshire, and also the parish of St. Mary, which comprehends the Scilly Isles; and counting ase the parishes of St. Erney and Landrake, which in Le population returns are given as united.

This little town is partly in the parish of Forrabury, rectory (net annual value 707. with a glebe house, and partly in that of Minster, a rectory (net annual value 2247.), both in the diocese of Exeter and archdeaconry d Cornwall, and in the gift of T. J. Phillips, Esq. The jet population of the two parishes does not exceed 855. Ther is a pier at Boscastle, to which vessels come with coais. Near the market-place are the remains of an antient church or chapel, dedicated to St. James, also some remains near the church of Minster, (which is remote from the town) d a former cell of Black or Benedictine monks dependeat upon an abbey at Angers in France.

Callington is in the hundred of East, and on the nai from London by Tavistock to Liskeard, Lostwithiel, St Austell, and Truro; 216 miles from London, and above # from Truro. The situation of the town is low and h pleasant, at the foot of Hingston Down, and not far fr the Lynher, a feeder of the Tamer; and the buildnes with the exception of the church, are mean and unportant; the houses are chiefly arranged in one broad stret The church, or rather chapel, was almost wholly rebais about the middle of the fourteenth century, by Nich de Asheton or Assheton, serjeant-at-law. Some cloth s manufactured here. There is a market on Wednesdays fr corn and provisions. Some mines are worked in the aete bourhood. There are two dissenting places of worstj The population in 1831 was 1388.

Callington is a perpetual curacy, held with the rect.rv d South:11; their joint net annual value is 748/, with a gest house; they are in the diocese of Exeter and archdearsay of Cornwall, and in the gift of Lord Ashburton.

This was one of the boroughs disfranchised by the Refr Act. It was the last town in Cornwall admitted to t right of sending members, not having acquired that prite

The nataber of market towns is thirty, viz.:- St. Agnes, 6.4.1. Bodmr, Boscastle, Callington, Camborne, Ca1. St. Columb Major, St. Daye, Falmouth, Fowey, Gravandatud. Helston, St Ives Launceston, Liskeard, East Le Level Marizon, St. Mawes, Mevagissey, Pad-lege till 1585. • P. Penzance, Polperro, Redruth, Saltash, StratTruro Of these, St. Austell near the coast L 2h Channel (population in 1831, 8755); at the centre of the county (pop. in 1831, son Falmouth Haven (pop of parish in in the river Loo (pop. in 1831, Is Bay (pop. in 1931, 4776); Levetog of the Tamer (op in 1831, 2231); that the strut at it the Looe (pop, in 1831, (;-; in 1×31, 3521); Penin 1×31, 6563); Redruth in 1×11, -168); are of distinct articles.

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Camborne is in Penwith hundred, and on the malèn London by Redruth to St. Ives; 34 miles from Redra and 265 from London. It is neatly built, in the mis the mining districts: the country around affords some tensive and delightful prospects. The church is a tr specimen of the granite churches of this county, bui" @ the perpendicular English style: there is a good south 24 under a porch, a modern south chapel, and a mod, in : (Rickman's Gothic Architecture.) There are pla worship for different classes of Methodists. The mat. established in 1802, is considerable; it is held on Satura the market-house was built by Lord De Dunstanvi, & the parish. The population, in 1831, was 7699.

a the hundred of Pyder, The living is a rectory (net annual value 7: 7, w ** 260 or 261 miles from Longlebe house), in the diocese of Exeter and the arter conry of Cornwall, and in the gift of Lord De Dunstan Camelford is in the hundred of Lesnewth, and un road leading from Launceston by Wadebridge . P.... 225 miles from London, and 14 from Launcestot.. 1! described as an ill-built town, in a situation ‘as d';

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can well be imagined.' The streets, however, are broad, and well paved; and there is a town-hall, which was built about 30 years since by the Duke of Bedford. The river Camel, which rises about four miles to the N.N.E., flows through the town, and gives name to it. The parish church is at Lanteglos, more than a mile south-west of the town. There is an endowed school. The population of the parish, in 1831, was 1359. There is a market on Friday for corn and provisions. The town was made a free borough by Richard, earl of Cornwall, better known by his subsequently acquired title of King of the Romans, brother of Henry III. The present corporation was incorporated by a charter of 25 Charles II. From the time of Edward VI. the borough sent two members to the House of Commons, who were elected by the corporation and a few freemen. Camelford was disfranchised by the Reform Act.

The living of Lanteglos is a rectory, united with the neighbouring rectory of Advent; their joint annual value is 4741. with a glebe house: they are in the diocese of Exeter and the archdeaconry of Cornwall: the patronage is in the king as duke of Cornwall. There was formerly a chapel in the town of Camelford; it is now in ruins. The petty sessions for the hundred are held here. The neighbourhood of Camelford is supposed by some to have been the scene of the battle in which King Arthur fell; and of another fought in 823 between the Britons and the West Saxons under Egbert.

St. Columb Major is in the hundred of Pyder, on a rivulet which flows into the sea between Trevose Head and Towan Head, and a little to the right of the main road from London by Launceston and Bodmin to Truro; 246 miles from London and about 11 from Bodmin. It is a small place, but pleasantly situated, being on the slope of a hill which commands some interesting prospects. The buildings are antient, and the town for the most part ill paved. There is a spacious cross church, the interior of which exhibits some curious specimens of early workmanship and numerous monuments: there was formerly a chantry attached to this church. There are meeting-houses for the Wesleyan and Calvinist Methodists. There were in antient times four free chapels in the parish, which is very extensive, comprehending 11,680 acres, or more than 18 square miles. The population in 1831 was 2790. There is a market on Thursday, and, in the summer, one also on Saturday. The living, a rectory, is of the yearly value of 12967. with a glebe-house: it is in the diocese of Exeter and archdeaconry of Cornwall.

St. Daye is in the parish of Gwennap, in the hundred of Kerrier: it is between Truro and Redruth; 261 or 262 miles from London, and about 2 miles from Redruth. It appears to have been of more consequence in former times, but had fallen much into decay: of late years it has greatly recovered, owing to the increase of the mining population in the neighbourhood. There was formerly a chapel, of which there are now no traces: this chapel is said to have been much resorted to by pilgrims in former days, and from the resort of these pilgrims arose a market, which continued to be held without any charter: this market was however given up. The present market, which is held on Saturdays for butchers' meat and other provisions, was established some years since for the benefit of the miners. The parish of Gwennap, which is rather large, contained in 1831 a population of 8539, principally consisting of miners.

The living of Gwennap is a vicarage (net annual value 4827. with a glebe-house) in the diocese of Exeter and archdeaconry of Cornwall, and in the gift of the dean and chapter of Exeter. There is near St. Daye a curious amphitheatre of rude construction, supposed to have been of British origin; it was selected by Wesley as a place for public preaching, and is still used by his followers at some

of their anniversaries.

Fowey, in the hundred of Pyder, is on the right or west bank of the river Fowey, near its mouth, 240 miles from London, through Tavistock, Callington, and Liskeard, or 243 miles through Plymouth and East Looe. The scenery around this town is very picturesque. The rocks about Polruan, on the opposite side of the river (which here expands into a good haven), rise to a considerable height, and are broken into rude cliffs and bold promontories. At the mouth of the haven are the ruins of two square stone forts or blockhouses, one on each side, built in the reign of Edward IV. to protect the entrance. They were provided with port-holes for cannon, and had apparently four floors:

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the walls are six feet in thickness. The harbour is now defended by two modern batteries, and by a fort, called St. Catherine, which was built in the reign of Henry VIII. The town is built in a very straggling manner, the houses extend a considerable way along the haven, and the streets are so narrow and full of angles as to be almost impassable for carriages. Most of the buildings are of stone. The church is a spacious and lofty fabric of the perpendicular English style of architecture: it was rebuilt, or at least much altered about 1466. There was formerly in the town a chapel called St. Catherine's Chapel, which gave name to St. Catherine's Hill: it existed in Leland's time. There is a spacious market-house, with a town-hall over it, and a public walk overlooking the town and harbour.

The population of Fowey in 1831 was 1767. The chief business of the town consists in catching and curing pilchards: this fishery employs many vessels. Fowey is a corporate town; the corporation consists of a mayor, recorder, eight aldermen, and a town-clerk. Fowey sent members to parliament from the time of queen Elizabeth up to the passing of the Reform Act, by which it was disfranchised. The living is a vicarage, of the annual value of 1797., with a glebe-house, in the diocese of Exeter and archdeaconry of Cornwall. There is a market on Saturday. There are two free-schools, and an almshouse for eight poor widows. The harbour has excellent anchorage, and is always safe.

Fowey was antiently a place of greater importance than it is now. The townsmen acquired wealth by feats of war and by piracy in the wars of Edward I. and III., and Henry V., and their wealth enabled them to increase the commerce of the town to a great extent. Fowey furnished more ships to the fleet of Edward III. before Calais than any other port in England, and more mariners than any other port except Yarmouth. About the same time the Fowey men had a sharp battle with the Rye and Winchelsea men, because they (the Fowey men) would 'vale no bonet, being required: the Fowey men obtained the victory. and hence rose the name of the gallaunts of Fowey.' The French burnt the town in 1457. When peace was made between England and France in the time of Edward IV. the Fowey men still kept up hostilities, for which the king ordered their fleet to be confiscated. The possession of the town was repeatedly contested in the struggle between Charles I. and his parliament.

Grampound is in the parishes of Creed and Probus, in the hundred of Powder, 248 miles from London, by Tavistock, Liskeard, and St. Austell. The river Fal flows through the town, the greater part of which is to the east of that river, and consists of one main street on the declivity of a hill. The town did not contain in 1831 more than 113 houses, and 715 inhabitants. The parish church is at Creed, a mile from the town, but there is a small chapel of ease in the town, and a granite cross. The market is in considerable: it is held on Saturday. There is a corporation, consisting of a mayor, eight aldermen, a recorder, and townclerk. Grampound sent members to parliament from the reign of Edward VI. until 1821, when it was disfranchised for bribery. The living of Creed (or St. Creed,) is a rectory of the net annual value of 3517., with a glebe-house, in the diocese of Exeter and archdeaconry of Cornwall. Grampound has been supposed, but with little reason, to have been a Roman station.

-East Looe is in the parish of St. Martin, in the hundred of West: it is on the left or east bank of the river Looe, which here falls into the sea; 234 miles from London by Plymouth. It is built on a flat piece of ground between the river Looe and the sea, and is described as a labyrinth of short narrow dirty alleys, above which rises the low embattled tower of a little chapel of ease. On the land side rises a high steep hill, over which the road leads into the town. East Looe is united with West Looe on the opposite side of the river by a bridge of thirteen, or, according to other accounts, fifteen arches: this bridge is 141 yards long, but only 6 feet two inches wide: there was formerly upon it a chapel or oratory dedicated to St. Anne. The number of houses in 1831 was 167: the inhabitants were 865. They are chiefly engaged in the pilchard fishery. The harbour, formed by the mouth of the river, admits vessels of 100 tons, and is protected by a battery of ten guns. There is a market on Saturday. The town was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth; the corporation consists of a mayor, recorder, and eight burgesses, and an unlimited number of freemen. It returned members to parliament

Redersen. Marghasyon, and Marghasiewe, from which_!-st Market Jew seems to have sprung. It appears to he the burnt by the rebels under Humphrey Arundel Lanherne, in 1549, and mest of the public buildings an 1 dwelling houses lay in ruins till long after.

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The living of St. Martin is a chapelry of the annual sala of 4817, with a glebe house, in the gift of the duke of Cleveland and the earl of Sandwich. It is in the dovese of Exeter, and the archdeaconry of Cornwall.

East Looe was formerly of much greater importance: it anted with Fowey in sending a member to a council of trade held at Westminster in the reign of Edward I., and furnished 20 vessels and 315 men to the fleet of Edward III Lostwithiel (otherwise Loswithiel and Lestwithiel) is in the hundred of Powder, on the west or right bank of the Fowey, 2314 miles from London, by Tavistock and Liskeard. The number of houses in 1831 was 217, chiefly of stone, and covered with slate, of which large slabs are quarried in the neighbourhood. The streets are narrow and roughly paved. The church is a curious edifice, with a tower, in the early Engfish style, and an octagonal lantern and spire of decorated English: there is a ne east window. The aisles are of later date. Within the church is a singular octagonal font. Near the church is an antient building said to have been a palace of the dukes of Cornwall. There is a town-hall, in which the Epiphany and Midsummer sessions for the county are held; the county members were also elected here until the division of Cornwall by the Reform Act. There are a grammar-school and a writing-school, supported by the corporation, and a school endowed by the trustees of Mr. St. John Eliot's donation. The market is on Friday. The population of the parish in 1831 was 1548: but the borough extends beyond it into the parish of Lanlivery.

The corporation of Lostwithiel consists of seven capital burgesses, one of whom is annually elected mayor, and seventeen assistants, or common-councilmen. The borough sent members to parliament from the time of Edward I. until it was disfranchised by the Reform Act.

Mirazion has a corporation consisting of a mayor, el burgesses, and twelve capital inhabitants. It appear have elected two members of parliament in the year 17 but it does not appear that they ever took their seats: It is thzht to have had representatives at an earlier period

The parish of St. Hilary, in which Marazion stands, 1-3 ; 1531 a population of 1728, besides the population of t'. town, making 3121 in all: many of these are engad mining. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exce and archdeaconry of Cornwall, of the net annual value 311, with a glebe-house.

Opposite the town of Marazion is St. Michael's M which is connected with the main land by the sands w the tide is out, but is insulated when it is high w Across the sands is a narrow causeway of pebbles to ren the communication more perfect. According to surge ar tient traditions, the Mount was formerly attached to te hore, and surrounded with trees; but an examination! the geological features of the spot has shown that the ta ditions are groundless, and that the Mount could not hire been separated from the land but by some great convuls a far beyond the reach of tradition or historical record. It is supposed, and apparently with reason, that St. M. chael's Mount was the Irig of Diodorus Siculus, the de for the tin refined and cast into ingots by the Britons. F. vious to 1044 a priory of Benedictine monks had been ce blished on the island; in that year Edward the Conf gave to the monks the Mount, with all its appendag but before 105 Robert earl of Moreton (Mortagne () Cornwall, annexed it to the abbey of St. Michael în per. Maris in Normandy. It was included in the suppress of the alien priories in the reign of Edward III., but ret as a religious house, and afterwards given, first by K Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge, and then, by K Edward IV. to the Brigitine nunnery at Sion, in Mid ́est At the Dissolution the lands belonging to this huet valued at 110/. 128. The Mount is said to have bus garded with religious reverence as early as the fi tury. In the dark ages it was much resorted to as a j of pilgrimage. It was regarded also as a strongl1 a castle was built on it. The Mount was seized ai monks expelled by Henry de la Pomeroy, who sapr prince (afterwards king) John in his attempt to se ze throne during the captivity of his brother, Richard C. de Lion. It was however surrendered by Pomer y approach of the royal army, supported by the sher f the posse comitatus: the monks were restored, and as garrison placed in the castle. In the War of the R the castle was seized by the earl of Oxford, a Lancastr after the battle of Barnet; the Yorkists besieged the p for several months, and at last took it by capitu.i Perkin Warbeck had possession of this castle for a whie left his wife here as in a place of security. Upon the pression of the monastery, the Mount was given to H. Marazion, or Market Jew, is in the hundred of Penwith, phrey Arundell of Lanherne: and when he placed hir on the coast of Mount's Bay, 2×1 miles from London, through at the head of the Cornish insurgents in 1549, the f Exeter, Launceston, Bodmin, Truro, and Helston: and 15 sion of this strong-hold was obstinately contested. I g miles from the Land's End. This town is built on the lope civil war in the time of Charles I., the Mount was he'' f· of a hill, which rises towards the north and shelters it from the royalists by Sir Francis Bassett, but was taken by as cold winds. The mildness of temperature which results Parliamentarians in 1646. In Leland's time, there's from its situation, renders the town and neighbourhood in-houses at the foot of the Mount, with shops for 1. viting to invalids, thou, h these advantages are partly coun- men; but before 1700 the place had so far decay. I? terbalanced by the quantity of rain. The town contained there remained only one cottage, inhabited by a » 250 houses in 1931, and had a population of 1393. The woman. In 1726-27 Sir John St. Aubyn rebuilt the parish church (that of St. Hilary) is two miles distant. and since then the number of inhabitants has m creased. In 1831 there were 42 houses and 161 r tants; but in the pilchard season the number is g increased. The Mount is extra-parochial.

The living is a vicarage of the net annual value of 967., in the diocese of Exeter and the archdeaconry of Cornwall. Lostwithiel was made a free borough by Richard earl of Cornwall and king of the Romans. Edmund, earl of Cornwall, son of Richard, was also a great benefactor of this town, conferring upon it several important privileges, some of which however were lost upon his death. In the civil war of Charles I. and the Parliament, the Royalists under Sir Richard Grenville were defeated in a skirmish near Lostwithiel by the Parliamentarians. Restormel castle, in the parish, was however soon afterwards taken by Sir Richard Grenville, and the earl of Essex, commander-in-chief of the Parliamentarians, retired from Lostwithiel, where he had his quarters, to Fowey, where his infantry was obliged to capitulate, though on very favourable terms.

Lostwithiel is, by some antiquaries, considered to have been a Roman station: Camden and Borlase fix here the OvẸNoa (Uxela) of Ptolemy, which later antiquarians fix on the Parret, in Somersetshire.

There are two dissenting places of worship, if not more. This town was formerly of more importance than it is now. At present there is one market held on Saturday, and well spad Ready made shoes are sold in considerable quan ttes. The chief trade of the town consist in the importation of timber, coals, and iron, for the use of the neighbour itunes. The origin of the popular name of this town, Market Jew, has been much disputed some have sapped it hal at an early period a market to which frein Jews came ti bay tala, thers that the name was derived from a market bed on Thursday (die Jata); it more probably has arisen " a popular corruption of the antet aine, which ap s to have been variously written, Marchadyon, Mer

The island, containing the Mount and a level; ground at its foot, is about a mile in circunferere comprehends 70 acres of surface. The Mount in height from the level of the sea to the pla:frm chapel tower. The ascent is steep, and is defen lest small batteries; the summitis occupied by the rema the monastic buildings, which have been repaired að. verted into a dwelling-house. Formerly the inhab.tars no other water than rain water collected in drains, Bul the middle of the last century, on sinking a woll, a fine spímą

number of houses in 1531 was 234: the number of inhabitants was 1127 in the borough, or 1282 in the whole parish. The parish church of Cuby is in the upper part of the town. The market is on Saturday. The corporation of Tregony consists of a mayor, recorder, and seven or eight capital burgesses. The borough is said to have sent members to parliament in the time of Edward L.; but if this, which is doubtful, be admitted, it appears that the franchise was disused till the reign of Queen Elizabeth. From that time two were returned until the borough was disfranchised by the Reform Act. Tregony is considered to have been a Roman station, Cenium or Voluba. There was a castle of the Pomeroys at Tregony, of which there are now no remains. The living of Cuby is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Tregony, the church of which, dedicated to St. James, was an old Tregony, and was partly standing in the last century their joint value is 3117; in the gift of J. A. Gordon, Esq; in the diocese of Exeter and archdeaconry

of Cornwall.

Bossiney [BossINEY), St. German's, West Looe, and St. Michael's, are decayed boroughs. For the borough of Newport, we refer to LAUNCESTON.

was nominally in all householders within the borouri (which however contains only a few houses), but was vir tually vested in the freemen, who amounted, accord ng is Oldfield's Representative History, Lond. 1816, tu seles the borough was disfranchised by the Reform Act T living is said, in the Clerical Guide (1836), to be a perpetual curacy, of the annual value of 1017. with a gate house, in the gift of the dean and chapter of Windsor. the diocese of Exeter and the archdeaconry of Totnes; bat according to Messrs. Lysons (Magna Britannias= the peculiar jurisdiction of the bishop of Exeter.

West Looe is separated from East Looe by the river Loe It contained, in 1831, 126 houses, and 503 inhabitants. Its in the parish of Talland, which includes also a part of the market-town of Polperro. There is a narrow bridge over the Looe, uniting the two boroughs of East Looe and West Love There was formerly a chapel at West Looe dedicated to S Nicholas, but it is now converted into a guildhall. The ma ket, which was on Wednesday, has been long discontinue This place was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth: the outporation consists of twelve burgesses, including the maya This borough sent members to parliament from the time of Edward VI. the election was in the corporation. West Looe was disfranchised by the Reform Act.

St. Michael's, otherwise Michell, is on the main road frəm Bodmin to Penzance and the Land's End, 245 miles fro London: it is partly in the parish of St. Enoder, and jart i in that of Newlyn, both in the hundred of Pyder. Tas place deserves notice only as being one of the boroughs defranchised by the Reform Act. It returned two men wer from the time of Edward VI. The right of election was declared in 1700 to be in the lords of the manor capabe of being portreeves (the portreeve is the returning ofier. and in the inhabitants paying scot and lot. The latter. 2 the time of Browne Willis, were in number twenty-six br Sir Christopher Hawkins having purchased the borougi. pulled down the cottages as fast as they became empty, asi so reduced the number of voters to four, exclusive of the lords of the manor. The population of St. Enoder was. :1 1831, 1124; that of Newlyn, 1218.

St. German's is in the hundred of East, on the river Tidi, which unites with the Lynher, forming the St. Ger-: man's river; 22 miles from London through Plymouth and Saltash. It is on the slope of a tolerably high hill, which rises on the north side of it. The houses (which, in 1×31, amounted, to 491 for the whole parish, or e of the largest in the county), are arranged mostly in one street. The inhabitants of the paristi (2956 in 1-31) derive their chief support from agriculture and fishing. St German's was at a remote period the seat of a bishopre, which was afterwards united with that of Crediton, and from this union arose the see of Exeter. Atheistan, king of England, had established here a college of priests, who were afterwards made canons of the order of St. Augustine; and the manor of St. German's was divided between the priory thus formed and the bishop of Exeter. At the Suppression, the revenues of the priory were valued at 2438 58. Dugdale and Speed; or 2271. 4. d. according to the Clare MS. Valor. The conventual church, now used as the parish church, was formerly much more The living of St. Enoder is a vicarage, in the gift of the extensive. The antient chancel fell to the ground in bishop of Exeter, of the annual value of 2787, with a giete 1992, in consequence of the necessary repairs having been house: that of Newlyn is a vicarage, also in the gift of the neglected: the church now consists of a nave and two bishop, of the annual value of 3807., with a glebeb apies. The west front has two towers, both of which are Both are in the diocese of Exeter and the archdeaconry 4 supposed to have been once octagonal in the upper part, Cornwall. Both churches are distant, St. Enoder three and quadrangular below: the north tower retains that miles north-east, Newlyn two miles north-west, from & form, but the south tower has been altered, and is quadran- Michell. gular throughout. Between the towers is the entrance, Divisions for ecclesiastical and legal purposes.-C formed by a very deep Norman arch with shafts and mould-wall was antiently a diocese by itself; and opposite opares ings, and two small Norman windows above. The archi- have been entertained as to the place where the see us tecture of the south aisle is very dissimilar, and the use of first established: according to Camden, Tanner, and Go the pointed arch indicates its later erection; indeed the (the editor of Camden), the see was fixed at Bodmin tr pointed arch is found even in the west front, which has pro- | and afterwards removed to St. German's; while Mr. Watbably undergone partial alteration. In the part now em- aker, who is followed by Messrs. Lysons, contends that d ployed as the chancel is a rude antient seat, generally called was originally fixed at St. German's, and continued them the bishop's chair,' but probably nothing more than the until it was united with the see of Crediton. Out of tra seat of one of the monks. There is a fine altar-piece, a union rose the see of Exeter, in the diocese of which Ceme pulpit curiously veneered and inlaid, and several monu- wall is now included. The limits of the county nearly can ments. The seat of the earl of St. German's, called Port cide with those of the archdeaconry of Cornwall; but the Elot. is in the immediate vicinity of the church, and oc- two parishes, according to Messrs. Lysons, are exempt fr cap.es the site of the antient priory: the outside is irregular the archdeacon's jurisdiction. The archdeacon's visitat. and devod of magnificence, but many of the apartments are held about a month after Easter in each year at Lat: are convenient and spacious, and decorated with paintings, ceston, Liskeard, Bodmin, Truro, Helston, and Penzas r The site of the abbey and other lands were, at the Disso- The archdeaconry is subdivided into eight rural deasem lutia leased to John Champernowne and others, and after-East, Kerrier, Penwith, Powder, Pyder, Trigg Mas wards granted in fee, in consideration of a sum of money, to Trigg Minor, and West. The office of rural dean is it Catarine wad w of John, and two other persons. Cham- county an efficient office. The deans are appointed year pornowwe sad to have olta ned his share in the monastic and make regular visitations to all the churches within the i Je utaúrt be a trick creatabse to ha ingenuity rather than deaneries, reporting the state of the churches at the arr. is fa.hem. Two gentlemen making sut to the king for deacon's visitation. That we as Camp het 1 aftendance at court, Messrs. Lysons give the number of parishes as 207 (rve A few vet te flat then. When the kneed to his majesty, as less than those given in the Population Returns), of w the pertam, janed with 85 are rectories, 100 vicarages, and 18 donatives or curacas Ill. I. lentą fimb and atervard, claimed his Cornwall is in the western circuit. The Spring 29820 With a pit wased him. are held at Launceston, the summer assizes at Bi 1 TL Sad to the Eat The Epiphany and Midsummer quarter-sessions are be': u" w lară Tăr present ear of be, Germar's is the re- Lostwithiel, the Easter sessions at Truro, and the MThere mas sessions at Bodmin. There are a county gaol and b H-es, of correction at Bodmin, and another older county S. Launceston, which is used at the assizes. The Ce sessions are not attended by barristers. (Lysons" Al...

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