Here also was born Richard Lower, M.D. brother of the former, who lived to the year 1690. This gentleman published various medical works, and some papers in the Philosophical Transactions. One of his works, “Tractatus de Corde, item Motu et Calore Sanguinis et Chyli in eorum transitu,” reached a third edition in England, and was reprinted abroad.
Hengar is a handsome seat, very pleasantly situated on a rising ground, and at a small distance from the house a prospect is obtained of great extent and beauty, in consequence of an admixture of all the varieties of scenery which distinguish Cornwall —granite mountains, undulating hills of the slate formation, deep valleys with streams of water, and trees, and finally the sea. This place was the occasional residence of Matthew Michell, esq. acquired under the will of Samuel Michell, a Colonel in the Guards, who died there in 1786, after attaining his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Matthew Michell has left this place with all his property to his widow, who is again married to a gentleman of the name of Searle.
St. Tudy measures 2881 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 4286 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 398 | 8 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 502 | in 1811, 512 | in 1821, 605 | in 1831, 658 |
giving an increase of 31 per cent. in 30 years.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish no where reaches so far as the granite hills. Its eastern part is composed of rocks which pass into the
porphyritic series of St. Breward; the western part rests on the same kind of rocks as those of the adjoining parish of St. Teath.
[13] No such name appears in the index to Domesday Book; nor should we expect it. On the contrary, this place is probably the Tewardevi of the Domesday survey. Edit.