1092 MrLLlON. . gate. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the boat, the "Daniel J. Draper," belonging to the National year 1598; marriages, 1621. The living is a vicarage, net Life Boat Institution st.ationed at , was re­ yearly value, £'178, with residence and I! acres of glebe, in placed in 1887 by the "Edith." There is also a rocket the gift of the Bishop of , and held since 1884 by the apparatus at Church Town, in charge of John Brown, chief Rev. Ebenezer Ernest Gill M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. officer of Coastguard (which is attached to ). Here are 'Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels. At A public clock, barometer and thermometer, have been. Predannack is a round-headed monolith, 5 feet 3 inches in erected by the Royal Lifeboat Institution. There is noW" height and 2 feet wide, with a plain Latin cross carved on (1889) a large boarding house for tourists in course of erec­ each side; it stands near the site of an ancient chapel: on tion by the Polurrian House Co. Limited. Predannack Downs are some barrows and various inferior PREDANNACK is a hamlet, 2 miles south. encampments, locally termed "robins." Viscount Fal- TREWOON is half a mile north-east: and MEAVER half a mouth D.L., J.P. and Lord Robartes D.L., J.P. are lords of mile east. the manor and chief landowners. The parish feast is held on the nearest Sunday to November 4th. The soil is marl Parish Clerk, John George. and clay, resting on serpentine rock. The chief crops are POST OFFICE.-Ann Secomb, sub-postmistress. Lettprs wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 4,786 acres; arrive from Cross Lanes R.S. O. at 11.25 a.m. ; dis- rateable value, £3,261; and the population in 1881 was patched at 1.30 p.m. is the nearf'st money order 608. office & Lizard is the nearest telegraph office MULLION COVE, or Porthmellen, is about I mile south- A School Board of 5 members was formed 31st May, 1872: west, and has a pilchard fishery of some note; near by is a J. Thomas is clerk to the board; William George, at- remarkably fine cavern. Immediately opposite is Mullion tendance officer Island, a low rock, about a mile in circumference, which Board School (mixed), built in 1834 & enlarged in 1872, fol'" forms a picturesque object from the coast. 200 {'hildren; average attendance, 42 boys, 42 girls & 18 is partly in this parish and here are the Soap Rocks, yield- infants; Albert Jenkin1 master; Miss Ursula Tyacke &. ing steatite, formerly used in china manufacture. A life- Miss Bessie Thomas, assistant mistresses Drew Misses, Parkventon George Josiah, farmer Rule Edward, farmer, Clahar Gill Rev. Ernest Ebeneza M.A. Vicarage Hancock William, farmer, Kynance Shephard Alexander, farmer, Predall- Glasson Mrs. Bay view Harry John, mason, Trewoon nack wallace Shephard John Hanry, Alma house Harvey Richard, farmer, Shephard Thomas, farmer, Tremenhe~ Shephard Thomas, Alma house Hendy Joseph, farmer, Trewithnow Shepherd Thos. Hy. farmer, Laflowder Thomas Joseph, Rose cottage Hocking William John, farmer, Clahar Thomas Frederick, farmer, Trevithoe COMMERCIAL. Hutchens Wm. & Alfd.frmrs.Polhormon Thomas James, farmer, Teneriff Bree .Alfred, farmer, Priske Jose Jeremiah Morris, farmer, Trenance I Thomas Richd.builder&gro.Church twn Cock James Henry, mason, Trembel Lawrence Nicholas, farmer, Newton Thomas Samuel,farmer,ParkVentonsah Cock John, grocer, Church town Lawrence Thomas, farmer, Garrow Thomas'Vm.Hy.frmr.High.Predaunack Downing 'rhos. boot mkr. Church town Lugg James, shopkeeper, Church town Trezise Frederick, smith Edward Geo.master mariner, King's cot Mercer Joseph, farmer, Predannack Warne John Hy. boot ma. Church town Exelby William, farmer, Meavor Mitchell Wm. frror. Predannack wallace WilIey Wm.&J sph. farmers,Tresprison George Henry, mason, Trenance vean Mundy Edwin, shoe maker ·WilliamsAndrw.mlr.(wtr.),Mullionmls George James Edwd. frmr. Pradanack Mundy Mary (Miss), Old inn IWilliams Dionysius, carpenter George John Wm. farmer, Pradanack Pearse Sam!. farmer,Lower Predannack WiIliams Peter, farmer, Angrouse MYLOR is a parish 2 miles east from Penryn, in the the south side: the font and north and west doorways are Truro division of the county, hnndred of Kerrier, petty Norman: there are 450 sittings: the ancient churchyard sessional division of Kerrier East, Falmollth union and cross, discovered during the restoration, has been re-erected county court district, rural deanery of Carnmarth, arch- near the south porch; it is a monolith of grey granite, 17 deaconry of Cornwall and . Under the pro- feet 6 inches long, with a four-holed Greek cross at the head visions of the" Boundary Act, 1868," part of the parish of and, as now set up, stands about II feet above ground_ Mylor, forming the ecclesiastical district of Flushing, is in- There are two yew trees in the churchyard, one of which eluded in the parliamentary borough of Penryn and Fal- covers a space more than 90 feet in diameter, and is said to mouth. have been planted about 300 years ago. In 1871 the MYLOR is bounded on the east and south by Falmouth Government granted a piece of land for the extension of th~ harbour, on the north by -navigable to burial ground and for the making of a new road round tlle Perran-ar-worthal village, and on the south and towards the east side of the church. The register dates from the year west it is washed by a navigable creek stretching up to 1673. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge Penryn borough and is intersected by , at the £184, net yearly \"'alue £200, including 14 acres of glebe. head of which is the pretty village of ; a small with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Truro, and held stream of fresh water from the west here flows into the since 1881 by the Rev. Alfred Gray M.A. of Uni\'ersity creek, and is. crossed by a bridge of one arch. Mylor con- College, Oxford. Lord Clinton is the lay impropriator; the sists of two" mounts; " the larger one, on the north-west, rectorial rent-charge amounts to £405. The small mission belongs to Colonel Arthur Tremayne; the south-western church at Mylor Bridge was erected in 1840; servic~s are "mount," or division, belongs chiefly to Lords Clinton and held here by the clergy of Mylor parish church. .At Mylo1" Saye and Sele, but a part is in the possession of Francis I Bridge are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels. There is Gilbert Enys esq. of Enys, and there are other lands, once a range of government store-houses and a dockyard near the the property of the Bishops of Exeter, but now belonging to church, occupying an area of about IS acres, with a con­ Thomas Page esq. of Trevissome and the Rev. Thomas venient pier; and in the valley, close to the church, is a large Ratcliffe M.A. A line drawn from Tarra Point, towards the reservoir of fresh water for the supply of H.M. ships. A south, and next to Penarrow Point, to Mesack Point, in St. reading room and library was erected at Mylor Bridge by Just, on the opposite or north-eastern point of the harbour, Col. Tremayne, in 1880. At Restronguet are the remains of constitutes the boundary between the ports of l<'almoutp and the burial ground of a religious house, measuring about 'Truro. Mylor church and parish take their name from half an acre, and formerly connected with Loe chapel, Feock_ Meilyr (or Melorus), the son of a British prince, who em- Mylor feast, formerly held on 21st August, is now held on braced Christianity, and was put to death for so doing, on the Sunday nearest 25th October. Carclew, the seat of the spot where the church now stands, on Augnst 28th, 411. Colonel Arthur Tremayne D.L., J.P. distant from the village 'The church of St. Mylor, or Melorus, originally Norman, about I! miles, is an elegant mansion, in the Ionic style of and dedicated in 13°8, is a building of stone in the Norman architecture, built in 1749, near the site of the old house, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south from designs by William Edwards, a self-educated architect: aisle, transept, south porch, and an embattled turret on the the exterior has a noble appearance, the principal, or south western gable: at some distance from the church stands a front, opening to a sweep of lawn, lined with masses of droop­ detached belfry containing 3 bells, recast in 1888 as a me- ing foliage: the west front overlooks a wooded valley,bounded morial to the late Rev. J. W. Murray, a former vicar, the by distant hills, and the deer park and plantations occupy an original dates (1637 and 1634) being repeated; the old bell area of over a square mile, and the approach to the house is of 'frefusis church, dated 1767, has also been presented to through an avenue of lofty trees nearly a mile long: a lodge this church by Lord Clinton : in the church are memorials was erected at the south entrance in 1871. 'frevissome, the to the Trefusis family from 1615 to 1832, and these include seat of Thomas Page esq. situated on an eminence, half a a handsome monument with an effigy; there are other mile from the town of Flushing, commands a fine view of memorials to the families of Bonython (1697-1728), Lemon the harbour, castle and surrounding scenery. On the north­ (1728-1868) and Yescombe (1803-26), besides various tablets east side of Mylor Creek is Great Wood, the seat of Mrs. and inscribed stones: the chancel has a mosaic reredos, by Hind. Lord Clinton D. L. is lord of the manor. The soil is Salviati: there is a chancel screen and a pulpit, both richly brown clay; subsoil, the gravelly glacial drift deposit carved, and an ancient piscina, discovered in removing the upon the killas rock formation. The chief crops are oats. foundations of the 'Old ncarage house, has been placed on wheat, barley and turnips. The area of Mylor and Flushing