Mr. Lysons records one of those singular customs in ecclesiastical matters which arose in former times out of the capricious fancies of individuals making gifts for the salvation of their souls. It seems that the rector of this parish sends a horse into a certain field in the adjoining parish of Landewednack, whenever a harvest of corn is taken in it, for the purpose of bearing home as many sheaves as the horse can carry on his back.
Ruan Minor measures 628 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 538 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 93 | 7 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 317 | in 1811, 274 | in 1821, 293 | in 1831, 269 |
giving a decrease of 15 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Rector, the Rev. R. T. St. Aubyn, presented by P. V. Robinson, esq. in 1814.
THE GEOLOGY BY DOCTOR BOASE.
This parish is composed of serpentine, and of a peculiar kind of hornblende rock, already noticed under the head of Mullion. The cliffs between Cadgwith and Poltesca afford many illustrations of the manner in which these rocks are associated together.
A very excellent “Sketch of the Geology of the Lizard District,” accompanied by a map, may be found in the first volume of the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, by Ashhurst Majendie, esq. F.R.S. &c. now of Hedingham Castle in Essex.—Ed.