THE EDITOR.
Mr. Hals has not gone into any particulars respecting this parish; but he has occupied several pages with the
real and with the legendary histories of the Evangelist, to whom the Church is dedicated; these are omitted as unsuited to a local history.
Mr. Lysons says, that the manor of Tregenhawke, situated partly in this parish and partly in Rume, and feudatory to the manor of East Anthony, did belong to the family of Eliot, by whom it was alienated in 1635 to Richard Treville, merchant; and that from the Trevilles it passed by coheiresses to the families of Cross and Trelawny. The whole now belongs to Lord Graves, who has also the manor of Withroe, called in this parish Winnow.
The right of presentation is appendant to the honour of East Anthony.
An excavation in the cliff at Whitsand Bay is noticed as having been made by Mr. Luggan, the proprietor of a farm called Freathy, by way of exercise and amusement.
The church is, perhaps, of less dimensions than any other in Cornwall, being no more than fifty-six feet long by eighteen in breadth; it bears the appearance of antiquity, and is decorated by some monuments, one to the family of Beel, with their arms, Azure, three griffins’ heads erased Argent.
This parish measures 872 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 1,016 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 108 | 19 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 110 | in 1811, 143 | in 1821, 178 | in 1831, 150 |