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• 7 1036 BLISL.AND. CORNWALL. (KELLY S previously rector of Chelsea (1394) and of Gransden Parva, 1 complete form originally stood at Lavethan on the village Cambridgeshire: in the south aisle is a slate tablet inscribed green; at Lavethan are also two heads of crosses removed to Susanna, wife of Christopher Taker, gent. of St. Kew, ob. from .Blisland moor; at Peverell's cross is a tall and fine 12th May, 1686: there IS also a monument with three male example, 6 feet in height, the arms of the cross projecting and three female effigies in relief kneeling at a desk, and an beyond the round head, and near it is a rugged peak called inscription to Humfrey Kempe esq. of Lavethan, ob. 10th "St. Bellarmine's Tor," on the summit of which are a Nov. 1624,and Jane (Peytonne) his wife, and there are chapelandawell; inthegroundsatTrewardaleisthehead other memorials of this family 1728-31 ; one to General of a cross which originally stood at the intersection of the l\'illiam Morshead, colonel sxst regiment, d. Jnne, :1822, roads to Bodmin and Cardinham, but was removed to its and others to the Collins (x8u-6o), Thomas and Lean present site by Captain Collins R.N.: it is 3 feet 7 inche.s families, and to Robert Robins, gent. and Elizabeth, his wife, high and has a Maltese cross on the round head; the base. 168o: the communion plate includes a silver-gilt cup, now overgrown, stands in a hedge hard by; on a moor gh·en by George Marrett in z6o4: there are 250 sittings. , near Carbilly, is a Druidic circle, called the "Trippet 'fhe register of baptisms dates from the year 1564; mar- Stones," consisting of nine upright unhewn stones, rising riages and burials, 1539 ; the earlier portions consists of about 3 feet above the .soil ; at Carwen is another circle, fragments only, imp3rfect and confused. The living is a about 50 feet in diameter, enclosing a smaller one and rectory, average tithe rent-charge £415, gross yearly value connected with several more on its el(terior, but all much .£495, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the overgrown; on Kerow Down are several scattered circles gift of the trustees o£ the Rev. F. W. Pye, and held since composed of granite blocks, from 2 to 4 feet high. On 1892 by the Rev. Edward Vernon Collins M.A. of Exeter Hawke'sTor is a circle, now imperfect, 152feetindiameter; College, Oxford, who is also vicar of Temple. A fair is near ChallowaLer are circular enclosures, and on Trehudret.h held here for horses, cattle and sheep on the Monday after down two British barrows. Lady Molesworth owns the Sept. nth, the festival of St. Prothus; a fair is also held at manorial rights. The principal landowners are Mrs. Pounds cawnse on the last Monday in November. Trewar- Edward-Collins, J. R. Morshead Gleucross esq. and Sit> dale, the seat of Mrs. Edward-Collins, is pleasantly situated Warwick Charles Morshead hart. J.P. The soil is clay; on the south side of the parish ; the estate has succes- subsoil, clay-slate and stone. The chief crops are oats and sively belonged to the Robyns and Browne families, and barley, with extensive moorland. The area is 6,338 acres; the house, rebuilt by Robert Robyns esq. towards the end rateable value, £4,098 ; the population in 1891 was 510. of the 17th century, was again rebuilt by George Browne WATERLOO, half a mile from the church, TREGENNA, Ii esq. about 1773, and the property afterwards passed, by north-west, CASSACAWN, 1 mile north-west, and PENDREU' marriage, into the Collins family, the present possessors. or PENDRIFT, a mile north, are outlying hamlets. On the Tregaddick, the seat of Sir Warwick Charles Morshead common, near Pendreif, is a large rock painted with the bart. J.P. is pleasantly situated on an eminence overlookmg royal arms of George Ill. and those of the Duke of Cornwall, • the Camel and De Lank rivers. Trewint, now the residence Sir A. 0. Moles worth bart. and Viscount Falmouth, and a of Mr. W. H. Cowling, farmer, was the seat of the family of figure of Britannia; these designs were executed in 1809 by Trewynt from the time of King John, or earlier, to the John Rogers, jun. esq. of Pendreve, in commemoration of reign of Henry VII. when it was alienated by marriage to the jubilee of George III ; a brass plate with verses, once the Skenock family, and afterwards to the Smiths; from affixed to the rock, is now in possession of the Rogers famiiy; the latter it was purchased by the Molesworths, who in on the Common is also a group of rocks called "Pucklers turn disposed of it to the Collins family; the old house is tor." now in ruins .and it is proposed to build stables with its Sexton, Joseph Northcott. materials: the new house erected in 1890 by the present PosT 0FFICE.-John Axworthy, sub-postmaster. Letters occupier, to the west of the former house, incorporates in arrive at 8.55 a. m. ; dispatched 3·55 p.m. Letters are its porch a granite doorway from the old building ; the received through Bodmin, which is the nearest telegraph estate pays a modus of £3 to the rector in lieu of tithes. In office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid; the the village is a cross, 4 feet high, with a semi-circular head, nearest money order office is at St. Tudy bearing a Latin cross in a sunk panel; by the roadside, at a A School Board of 5 members was formed Sept. 10, 1875, short distance from the village, is another, between 4 and 5 for the united district of Blisland Temple; W. H. Cow- feet high, but now mostly buried, the round head only ap- ling, •rrewint, clerk to the board pearing; this cross formerly stood by the well of St. Board School (mixed), built in 188o, for 126 children; . Prothus ; in a field near is a good bevelled cross head set average attendance, 21 boys, 20 girls & 8 infants; J. F. up on a post, its shaft is in another field : this cross in its Reid, master; Mrs. Reid, mistress Collins Rev. Edwd. Vernon M. A. Rectry Hall John, farmer, Hawk's Tor Philp Samuel, farmer, Carbeglett Edward-Collins Mrs. Trewardale Harper Chas. W. farmer, Greenbarro Pike James, blacksmith Gillett Mrs. Newton house Harris William, farmer, Tregenna Prout Charles, farmer, Hawk's Tor Morshead Sir Warwick Charles hart. Hawken Richard, farmer, Corbilley Rich Thos. Olver, farmer & shopkeeper Tregaddick 1 Hawken Richard, farmer, Durfold Robins Nicholas, stone mason,Tresarret 'l'ownsendRev.Ch9.s.Hy.[curate],Rectry Hicks Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Rogers John, farmer, Pendrift Tomrose Roose Richard, farmer, Pound's Cause COMMERCIAL. Hooper Wm. blacksmith,Merry meeting Runnalis John, farmer, North Kerrow Axworthy Austin, boot & shoe maker Keat Wm. miller (water),Levethan mill Runnalls Thomas, farmer, Treswiggar Axworthy John, post master KingdonUharles, farmer ,Merry meeting Runnalls William, farmer, Trencreek Hate Thomas, farmer, Newton Lang J n. H. miller (water), Trehudreth Rush Christopher, farmer, Meatherin Bate Thomas, farmer, Penrose Lean George, farmer, Bradford Rush William,farmer, Higher Pengelley Brown Joseph, miller (water), Trewint Lean John Theodore, farmer, Carwen Tom Cornelius, farmer, Pendrift Bunt William, blacksmith, :Four winds Lee Edward Thomas, farmer, Tresarret Tom James, farmer, Trehwedreath Coppin Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Maeters John, farmer, Tregenna Trethewy John, farmer, Moss Penquite Mudge John, farmer, Meatherin Whale & Son,carpenters&wheelwrights, Cottell John, farmer, Trehudreth Northey William John, farmer, Hawk's Waterloo Cowling William Henry, farmer & clerk Tor Whale Wm. Hy. farmer, Wall house to the school board, Trewint Parkyn & Peters, china clay producers Wheal Rosa Tin Co. Limited (George Ead Mary (Mrs.), farmer, •rreworder Parr John, farmer, Torr R. Bellamy, manager), Hawk's Tor Ford John, farmer, Lanxon Pethybridge Charles Lyon, farmer, Tre Williams Rebll<•ca (Mrs.), Blisland inn, Grigg Isaac, farmer, Pendrift vissick & Landebethick Church town DOCONNOC is a parish intersected by a tributary of the i (1875), children of the Hon. G. M. and Lady L. lt'ortescue; river Fowey, 3 mile!! east-north-east from Lostwithiel station to the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue, second son of on the Great Western railway, and 7 north from Fowey Hugh, first Earl (1877) ; to Lieut.-Col. Cyril Dudley station on the Cornwall Minerals and Great Western rail- Fortescue D.L. formerly of the Coldstream Guards, d. I8gx, way, in the South Eastern division of the county, hundred and to William Pease esq. (x881), who was steward to the and petty sessional division of West, union and county estate; there is a monnment to Penelope (Mohnn), wife of conrt district of Liskeard, rural deanery of West, arch- William Drew esq. ob. 1637, besides others of some interest deaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The church in the north aisle : the reredos, erected in x888, was ID6de (dedication unknown) is an ancient building of stone, in from old carved wood from Boconnoc House, by Mr. Harry the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south Hems, of Exeter; the lectern and prayer desk are of Spanish aisle of nearly equal length, separated from the nave by an chestnut, and were presented by Lady Lonisa Fortescue: arcade of six arches, supported on granite piers, north aisle the communion table is richly carved and has on the north of shorter dimensions, south porch, and a turret at the end the inscripton, " Made by me, Raynold Mohun, 1631 ; " south-west angle, eo ntaining one bell: the east windowis the carved work on the organ was designed and executed by stained, and there are memorial windows to Louisa Susan the Misses Fortescue, and there is an ancient font: the Anne, •·ife of W.