DIRECTORY.] . MERRYN. 207 and a western tower 45 feet high, with spire and con­ irregular double vallum, extending over more than one taining 5 bells, all cast in 1739, except the second, which acre. At Bolitho is a viaduct II3 feet high, and there is dated 1842; in 1887 they were rehung and a new are others at Trevido 101 feet, Cartuther Bg feet, and one added : in the chancel are remains of sedilia and Ooldrenick 134 feet; all these are on the Great Western a piscina.: the west window of the south aisle is stained : railway, which traverses this parish. The Canon Mar­ on the floor of the nave, near the chancel steps, is an tin charity amounts to about £37 yearly for a pariah inscribed brass to Sir Ralph Carmynow kt. ob. 9 Oct. nurse, there are also two small educational charities 1386; he was sheriff of the county in 1378-g and M.P. amounting to £1 1os. yearly. Coldrenick is the seat for Cornwall in 1383, 1384 and 1386; according to the of :Major-General John Jago-Trelawny J.P. The Visitation of 1620, he was killed while hunting; there manorial rights have been distributed. The principal are also memorials to Augustine Question M.A. vicar, landowners are :Major-General J. Jago-Trelawny, the d. 1753; Lady Charlotte Carr, daughter of James, 14th Rev. Charles R. Honey l\I.A. of Bournemouth, and Tre­ Earl of Errol, d. r8or, and to her husband, Rev. 1-V. hawke Kekewich esq. of Peamore, Exeter. The soil H. Carr, vicar, d. 1836; to the family of Trelawny, is loamy, with a stony bottom. The chief crops are 1653-1813; and to Lud. Stephens M.A. 40 years vicar, grass, wheat, barley, oats &c. The area is 7,oor acres; d. 1724: the font of Caen and Bath stone is octagonal: rateable value, £9,966; the population in 1891 was 1,191. the pulpit, a memorial of Vice-Admiral Charles Tre­ MERRYl\fEET is a village, 2~ miles north. Divine lawny Jago, d. 1891, is of oak, and contains a representa­ service is held here in the licensed schoolroom on Sun­ tion of his ship " Enterprise " in search of Sir John days at II a.m. and: 6.30 p.m. Franklin ; the lectern, also of oak, has a statue uf William Parish Clerk, George Hallett. of VVykeham, who was associated with this parish; both pulpit and lectern were made from trees off the estate Post & :M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. of Coldrenick, by Hems and Sons, of Exeter : there -John Wills, sub-postmaster. Letters received .are 420 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials through , arrive at 6.50 a.m.; dispatched dates from the year 1554; marriages, 1536. The liv­ at 5· 15 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 7.25 a.m. ; dis­ ing is a vicarage, net yearly value £430, including 22! patched at 9·35 a.m. The telegraph office is at the acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the rector railway station and scholars of Exeter College, Oxford, by exchange in Wall Letter Boxes, Merrymeet, cleared at 5·35 p.m. week 1884, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Charles Edward days only; & Railway station, cleared at 4·45 p.m. week Hammond l\LA. formerly fellow of Exeter C.ollege, Ox­ days only fmd, honorary canon of and rural dean of East. SCHOOLS. Here are W esleyan and Free Methodist chapels. On the south side of the parish, and about a mile distant, National (mixed), originally built in 1835, burnt down & is a rugged oblong mound, called "Clicker Tor," com- re-erected in 1885, for 150 chilflren; average attend- posed of dark compact serpentine, a formation favour- ance, 120 ; George Hallett, master able to the growth of a peculiar species of heath, Erica National (mixed), Merrymeet, built in 1842, for 130 Vagans, which was once £ound here, as well as at the children; average attendance, 76; James Edward Lizard. One mile further south is an ancient earth- 1-Yyatt, master ' work called "Blackaton Rings," consisting of an J Railway Stati()n, Samuel :Mugford, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Easterbrook Elias, farmer & butcher, Oliver Richard, farmer, Trethew Hammond Rev. Charles Edward :M.A. Trewint Olver Richd. farmer, Skews tenement (hon. canon of Truro & rural dean Ford "\Valter, landowner, Hendra Palk John, farmer, Merrymeet of East), Vicarage Ford ·wm. & Wait. farmers, Hendra Parsons Joseph, farmer, Cutcare .Tago-Trelawny Maj.-Gen. John J.P. Gilbard John, farmer, South Treviddo Parsons Richard, farmer, Cutcare Coldrenick Gledhill R.obt. Henry, teacher of music Pearn James Albert, miller, Butterdon Mutton -, Pool hall Hambly Edmund, farmer, Bodway water mills PoJard William Hambly Richard, farmer, Trethawle Peters John, carpenter, Trethawle Seccombe Mrs. Trenodden Hancock William Brenton, nursery- Roberts Joseph, blacksmith Snell John Sobey, Scawns man, Doddycross Roskilly Thomas, farmer, Trewolland Sobey William Richard, Glen-lea ho Hawk'en William, blacksmith,Pengovr Rowe Samuel, farmer, North Treviddo Sweet James, Venton Higman Mary Susan (Mrs.), shop- Sandy Samuel, farmer, Trengrove Whittley Rev. William (curate), keeper, Merrymeet Scantlebury Margaret Ann (Mrs.) & Merrymeet Roar William (Mrs.), frmr. Pencrowde Son, butchers, Roseland vale Hooper Thomas, blacksmith Scantlebury :Martin, shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Hosking Edward, farmer, Cartuther Skin Richard, assistant overseer :Barrett Henry, mason Jenkins William, White Hart P.H Skin William, carpenter, Doddycross Batten Edmund & Frederick, farmers, John Wm. Harry, farmer, Tregarrick Snell Hugh, farmer, Tregondale Higher Coldrenick Kelly Wiiliam, butcher, Tregrill Snell Samuel, baker & grocer Batten Herbert, farmer, Treweatha King Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Penearth Snell Samuel, farmer, Blackat.on Beaglehole Samuel, mi1ler (water), Kneebone Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Sobey Fray Mowhawke, farmer & Factory mill Lander James, miller & farmer, Car- auctioneer, Trevartha Bennett Theophilus, farmer,Butterdon tuther water mills Sobey John Rabini, surveyor of high- Eray Henry, farmer, Deerpark Laundry Joseph, carpenter ways for Liskf'ard, Lit. Trethew Cloen Willia.m, shoe ma. Merrymeet Laundry Wm. carpntr. Pengover grn Sobey SidneyMollock,frmr.Lit.Trethew Couch Hy. blacksmith, Lower Clicker Lillicrapp Martin, frmr. Low. Clicker Sobey William F. farmer, Trenant Creber John. farmer, Trewint Co-operative Society Lim. Stephens Nicholas, carpenter Dale John, farmer, Lambe;;.t (Richard Kelly, manager) Thomas Tom Lawrence, frmr.Trewint Dawe Jabez, Sportsman's Arms hotel, Moon Charles, farmer, Bolithoe Trant Rd. Brooking, farmer, Tregill manure & coal merchant Moyes John, farmer, Pengover Tucker John Snell, farmer, Pathada Dyer Thomas & Son, frmrs. Tencreek Mutton Wm. sen. landowner,Penhawgr Wills John, draper & grocer,Post off Easterbrook John, shopkeeper Mutton William, yeoman, Penhawger Wood William, boot & shoe maker .. ST. M:ERRYN is a parish and village, bounded on register dates from the year 1688. The living is a the west and north by the Bristol Channel, 8 miles east vicarage, net yearly value £234, including 34 acres of from station on the Great Western railway, glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Truro, 2~ south-west from , 8 north-by-west from St. and held since 1891 by the Rev. ~dward Olivily B.A. of Columb, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Here are Wesleyan petty sessional division of Pyder, St. Columb union and and Bible Christian chapels. A fair is held on the Mon­ county court district;, rural deanery of Pyder, arch­ day before the second Tuesday in May, yearly, f~r cattle deaconry of Cornwall and . The church and sheep. The charities, amounting to £r2 Ss. yearly of St. Merryn is an ancient building in the Gothic style, value, are derived from land, £8 3s. being for the re­ partly constructed of the trap or basalt stone of the pairs of the church and £4 ss. for poor widows. There locality, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north and is also a charity derived from. 'the village· green, which south porches and an embattled western tower, with is let at a yearly rental of £2, for the young men's pinnacles, containing 6 bells: the monuments include sports. A lighthouse stands on Trevose Head, in this one to Colonel Peter, d. Jan. 1753: the font formerly in parish ; and on a range of open land dalled "Th~ W a:r­ this church, a. reduced fac simile of that at , is ren," "fi~~emains of the old tower and church of St. now in the church of St. Macra, at Maker; the font in Constantine are still standing. Harlyn House, formerly use was removed here from the ruined church of St. the seat of the Treglowan, Mitchell and Peter families, Constantine in this parish: the church was restored in is the residence of Thomas Jlellyar esq. and the dining 1887 at a cost of £1,400, and affords 320 sittings. The room -retams a fine plaster ceiling. Two ancient gold