| Population,— | ||||
| in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, | |
| The parish, | 344 | 343 | 411 | 455 |
| East Looe | 467 | 608 | 770 | 865 |
| 811 | 951 | 1181 | 1320 | |
| giving an increase | ||
| on the parish of | 32 per cent. | } In 30 years. |
| East Looe | 42 per cent. | |
| both | 39 per cent. | |
THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish entirely resembles St. Germans, to which it is contiguous.
[3] One of the most eminent chemists and natural philosophers of his age.
ST. MARTIN’S in MENEAGE.
HALS.
St. Martin’s Rectory is situate in the hundred of Kerryer, hath upon the north and east Helford Channel and Constenton, south Manaccan and St. Kevorn, west Mawgan: under what jurisdiction this parish was taxed in the Domesday Book in 1087 I know not. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, into the value of Cornish Benefices in Cornwall, 1294, Ecclesia de Sancti Martini in decanatude Kerryer, was valued at £4. 6s. 8d. At or before the time of Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, it was consolidated into its superior or mother church St. Mawgan, and therefore not mentioned by itself. I take it to have been founded and endowed by the Prior of St. Michael’s Mount, who formerly was patron of both, now Trevillian; the incumbent Trewinard; and the parish rated to the 4s. per pound Land Tax, 1696, £105. 15s.
Tremayne, that is the town of stone, or the stone town, in this parish, is the dwelling of an old family of