For various further details respecting Fowey, the Editor must refer to the recent Histories of Cornwall.
Mr. Lysons gives an ample account of the descents or alienations of manors; and a very curious letter from Lord Thomas Cromwell to the Prior of Trewardreth, dated on the 21st of May, but without the insertion of any year, probably, however, not long before the dissolution. See p. 109 of Lysons’s Magna Britannia, vol. iii. Cornwall.
A considerable property was accumulated about the middle of the last century by two brothers, natives of this town, of the name of Lamb. One filled the office of Collector of the Customs at Fowey, the other practised medicine at St. Austell; both left their fortunes to an only sister, who after their deaths, and late in life, married Mr. Graham, a gentleman from London; through whom the property has passed to his nephew, Thomas Graham, Esq. Sheriff of Cornwall in 1806, a magistrate for the county,
and resident within the limits of Fowey, where he has built a new and handsome house.
The parish of Fowey measures 1,726 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 4,856 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 473 | 16 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 1155 | in 1811, 1319 | in 1821, 1455 | in 1831, 1767 |
giving an increase of 53 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. John Kempe, instituted 1818.
Latitude of the Windmill near Fowey 50° 20′ 7″. Longitude 18ᵐ. 30ˢ. west. High water at the full and change of the moon 5ʰ 20ᵐ.