956 . . [KELLY's Hancock William Brenton, shopkeeper, Oliver Richard, farmer, Trethew Skin John, jun. White Hart Doddycross Olver Thomas, farmer, Skews tenement Skin Richard, builder Hawken William, shopkeeper, Pengover Parsons Joseph, farmer, Cutcare Skin William, carpenter, Doddycross Higman Thos. shopkeeper & farmer, Parsons Richard, farmer & landowner, Snell James, farmer, Lower Clicker Merrymeet Trenant Snell John, farmer, Hill Hoar William, farmer, Pencrowde Pearce John, mine agent Snell John Sobey, farmer, Cartuther Hodge Richard, farmer, Trevartha Pearn Jane (Mrs.) & Albert, millers, Snell Richard, farmer, Tregondale Hooper Thos. blacksmith, Doddycross Butterdon water mills Snell Samuel, farmer, Blackatton Hooper Thomas, jun. blacksmith,Lower Peters John, carpenter, Trethawle Snell Samuel, baker & grocer & black- Clicker Pollard Robert, farmer, Tregarrick smith, Island shop Hooper William, blacksmith · Pooley Martin, Queen's Arms inn, & Statton George, millwright, Roseland Hurrell John, farmer, Butterdon assistant overseer Toll Frederick, farmer, Trevartha Kelly Richd. butcher & farmer,Tregrell Raby George, farmer, Pool hall Toll John, miller & farmer, Oartuther Kneebone Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Raby Harry, farmer, Treviddo water mills Lanyon Herbert, mine agent Raby Saml.farmer & landowner,Hendra Trant Richard Brooking,farmr. Tregrill Laundry Wm. carpenter, Pengover grn Robinson Wingfield, farmer, North Trounce Henry, farmer, Trewint Martin William, carpenter Treviddo Tucker John, farmer, Pathada Maynard William, farmer, Penearth Roskilley Samuel, farmer, Lambest West Mary Ann Lead Mine (William Menheniot Co-operative Stores (John Roskilly Thomas, farmer, Trewolland G. Nettle, manager) Scoble, manager) Saunders Edgar, farmer, Trewetha Wheal Hony ~ Trelawny Lead Mine Moon Charles, farmer, Bolithoe Saunders Richard, farmer, Hole & Tor Lirnited (William Derry, manager) Moyes John, farmer, Pengover Scantlebury Philippa (Mrs.), farmer, Wills John, draper, grocer, & post office Mutton Edmund, farmer, Pencrowde Trengrove Wood William, boot & shoe maker Mutton William, farmer, Penhawgar Skin John, builder ST. MERRYN is a parish and village, 2~ miles west from and £4 ss. for poor widows. A lighthouse stands on , 8 north-by-west from St. Columb, 19 miles from Trevose Head, in the parish ; and on a range of open land road station and n from St. Columb road station, called the Warren, the remains of an old tower and church bounded on the west and north-west by the Bristol Channel, still exist. Harlyn House is the residence of Mr. Thomas in the Eastern rliYision of the county, hundred of Pyder, St. Hellyar. The manorial rights are diyided. Mrs. Peter of Columb union and county court district, rural deanery of Chyverton is the principal landowner. The soil is mostly Pyder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of . The clayey; the subsoil is clayey. The chief crops are wheat church of St. Merryn is an ancient building, in the Gothic and barley. The area is 3,746 acres; rateable value, £4,4os; style, partly constructed of the trap or basalt stone of the and the population in 1881 was S4S· locality: it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, porches and a Sexton, John Bate. tower containing 6 bells: the monuments include one by Chantrey, to the late Colonel Peter. The register dates PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Maria Old, receiver. Letters arrive from the year 1688. The living is a vicarage, yearly value, through Padstow R.S.O. at 10.25 a.m. ; dispatched at 1.30 from tithe rent-charge £ 2so, net income £ 245 with resi- p.m. Padstow is the nearest money order & telegraph deuce and about 27 acres of glebe, in the gift of the bishop office of 'frnro, and held since 18S7 by the Rev. John Carlyon A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1874; John B.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan Francis Clemow, hon. clerk to the board chapel. A fair is held on Monday before the second Tues- Board School (boys & girls), built in 1876, at a cost of day in May, yearly, for cattle and sheep. The charities £1,209, for 120 children, average attendance, 100; are of £12 yearly value, £8 for the repairs of the church, Charles Connellam, master 'PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brenton Richard, farmer & beer retailer Old John Bennett, farmer & landowner• Carlyon Rev. John B.A. Vicarage Champion John, farmer, Trehemborn Tregarnon Gurney Rev. Elias Goldsworthy, Tre- Clemow Mark, farmer, Trewithen Old John Brenton, tailor vorgus house Haw ken James, farmer, Trevorgus Old Joseph, blacksmith

• Hanken Henry, Towan Hawken James, jun. farmer, Trewis Old Jsph.farmer & landowner,Carnevas Hellyar Thomas, Harlyn house Hawken John, farmer, Polmouth Old Joseph, jun.Cornish Arms,&carpntr ---. COMMERCIAL. Hellyar Charles Thomas, farmer & Old Maria (Mrs.), postmistress Andrew Jn.farmr.& landownr.Trevoyan landowner, Tregolds Parkyn James, farmer, Towan Andrew Thos. Hellyar, frmr.Trevorgus Hellyar Geo. Albert, farmer, Roskeen Tremain John, farmer, Kirketh Bennett John, farmer, Harlyn Higman Saml.miller&frmr.Porthcothan Tremain Richard, farmer, Tresallyn Biddick John, farmer, Trevorrick Lobb John, blacksmith Tummon Thomas, farmer, Trevose Brenton Henry & Joseph, carpenters Lobb Samuel Henry,farmer, Trevigonce' Werry William, farmer, Towan Brenton James, jun. mason Old Alexander, boot & shoe maker Williams John, farmer Brenton John, farmer & carpenter Old Fras. farmer & landowner, •rrethias Williams John, farmer, Port Cothan MERTHER is a township and small parish, seated on of an ancient baptistery. Anne Frances, late Countess of the St. Clement's Creek, over which is a ferry from Malpas Falmouth, left in 18s6 the sum of £so yearly, to be to Merther and containing part of the hamlet of TRESILLIAN, divided between the poor of Merther, St. Michael Penkivel 5 miles east from Truro, in the Western division of the and Probus. There is a Wesleyan chapel at l\Ierther Lane. county, west division of Powder hundred, union and county Viscount Falmouth is lord of the manor and sole landowner. court district of Truro, rural deanery of Powder, arch- The soil is loam ; subsoil, shelf. The chief crops are wheat, deaconry of Cornwall and . This parish, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,726 acres; rateable together with Cornelly, was formerly consolidated with value, £2,103; and the population in 1881 was 246. Probus, with which it is now connected by Tresillian bridge. Letters through Probus R.S.O. which is the nearest money The church of St. Cohan is a small building of stone, in order & telegraph office the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south TRESILLIAN, partly situated in Merther and partly in aisle with porch and a tower with an upper stage of wood, Probus and St. Erme, is about 3 miles north-east from containing 3 bells : the chancel retains a piscina and a Truro. A bridge here connects Merther with the parish of niche enclosing a figure, said to have been brought from Probus. In the year 1646 Lord Hopton, being defeated in the well-chapel of S. Coanus, about a quarter of a mile dis- an encounter with Fairfax at Torrington, retired with tant: there is a monument to the family of Blake, 1718-46, 3,000 horse to Stratton and proceeded to Bodmin, after and one in the churchyard to Thomas Couch and Mary his having made a treaty with Fairfax at Tresillian bridge, by wife, 1622: on a piece of the communion service plate is which negotiation the county of Cornwall was surrendered to inscribed the date 1576. The register of baptisms dates from the Parliament. At Tresillian is the principal entrance to the year 1658; marriages, 17S4; burials, 1682. The living is a the park of Tregothnan, the seat of Viscount Falmouth: vicarage, net yearly value £so, with 4 acres of glebe, in the the mansion is approached by a carriage road, 4 miles long, gift of the vicar of Probus, and held since 1868 by the perfectly level and preserved in excellent condition, Rev. Richard Blackmore M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, Pari.~h Clerk, Henry Behenna. head master of Probus Grammar school, and surrogate. PosT OFFICE, Tresillian. .:...._ William Collard, receiver. An ancient record, dated 1727, mentions that this parish Letters through Probus R.S.O. arrive at 8.45 a.m.; dis- was made parochial 200 years previous. A font was dis- patched at 3·45 p.m. Probus is the nearest money order covered in 1852 by the Rev. Frederic Webber, the late & telegraph office. incumbent, on a spot about a quarter of a mile north from Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1842 for 40 children; the parish church and supposed to have once been the site average attendance, 14; & supported by an endowment