(.] PERRANZABULOE. 86 POST OFFICn Engilleys, are the chief landed proprietors. The parish and the Rev. Robert Wood Loosemore is the curate. is greatly overblown with sea-sand, and in i!everal places There are chapels for Wesleyans, at , Rose, and the earth is much perforated from the number of rabbits Callestock, and for Bryanites' at and Gool:lba­ which breed in the adjoining hills. Shipwrecks were vern. The National school is situate adjoining the church, formerly ver} common on the rocks which skirt this desert and a Sunday school is held at the school room. The inba­ waste-a place at all times full of danger to the mariner. bitants of this parish are chiefly employed in mining and In the midst of this scene of desolation and terror there for- agriculture, and live in detached cottages, indiscriminatelr merly existed a monastery, which, in the reign of Henry I., scattered over the open commons. There i& also a pleasing consisted of a dean and canonE>, and was endowed, having valley filled with houses, on the northern side of the parish, the privilege of a sanctuary; there are but few of the at a place called Bolingey, where is held an annual fair on ruins now visible, and are only to be percei"ed a.s the the 17th March. About a mile front this is the hatnlet of sands shift. About a quarter of a mile further east are Perran-Porth. It is much frequented in the summer the remains of a church of le!'s antiquity, but equally months, as a bathing-place, on account of its :fine sandy desolate, being deprived of its roof, pillars, window fr1.1mes, beach. This parish is said to have been the birthplace and and tower, the whole representing a scene of melancholy residence of St. Pi ran, the patron of the tinners; and the confusion, the interior of this ruinous pile being filled old church, the shrine which contained his relics, was with the sand from the sea. The present church, dedi- greatly resorted to by pilgrims, for the purpose of making cated to St. Piran, is situated on an open waste called oblations to the departed saint. Near themanorhouseof Lambourne, in the centre of the parish; it consists of a Tywarnhayle is a small island, on which formerly stood a nave, chancel, north and south transepts, porch, and chapel, called Engarder, the ruins of which were visible in at the west end a square tower containing 3 bells; in the 1733. St. Perran's Well, distant half a mile north-east north transept is a tablet of white marble, and underneath from the church, is situated in tbe tenement of Karnkief, is the following inscription :-"The first stone of this and is enclosed with granite walls; the water has been parish church was laid in the year 1804, after t~o former found to possess remedial properties. North of the well ones had been successively overwhelmtd with the sand of is St. Piran's round, or amphitheatre. It is 130 feet in the desert in which they were imprudently built. It was diameter, is composed of turf, and rises in seven steps. finished, and together with the surrounding burying exhibitions Clf miracle plays were formerly held here. ground, consecrated in the following year. The land was j The church of Perranzabuloe, buried in the sand, has been given to that intent by Francis Gregor, Esq., a Member the subject of much controversy. Chiverton, in this parish, of Parliament for this county; .tohn 'l'homas, Esq., the formerly the handsome modern seat of John Thomas, Esq., high lord of the fee, consenting) and Mark Oates, Esq., deceased, late vice-warden of the Mtannaries, is probably contributing his leasehold interest therein. The greater so called from an ancient and noble family now extinct. part of the expense was defrayed by the libual subscrip- It is now inhabited by the incumbent, the Rev. John tions of the persons whose names and principal benl!fac- Perry, 1\LA. tions are here recorderl, by the contributions of others The following are small hamlets, with their distances to a less amount-some zealously gave their labour, and from the church ~-Bolingey, 1 mile north; Callestock1 the remainder by church rates. The seats, except the 1 mile south; Penhallow, three quarters of a mile south­ open ones at the west end of the church, and the vicar's west; Perran-coombe, 2~ miles north-west; Rose,2 milea in the chancel, are appropriated, and, according to the uorth-east, and , 1 mile south-east grant of the land, are to be held by those who erected LAMBRIGGAN, Callestock, Callestock Veor, Great them, and their respective heirs and assigns for ever, Reen, Little Cl!llestock, Lambourne, Engilleys, Lower being inhabitants, and keeping them in repair." Here Rten, Treworten, and , are farms here. is also a tablet to the memory of John Thomas, Esq., for- At Perran Porth, is a chapel of ease, also Perran St. merly rei!ident in this p81"ish. The living is a vicarage, worth George and Perran United copper mines. £295 yearly, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter Budnick lead mine is situate in the hamlet of Rose. of Exeter; the Rev. John Perry, M.A., is the incumbent, :Perranzabuloe. Jewell William, farmer, Lower Reen Batten Jame!l, butcher GENTRY. Johns William, mine agent, Boleuua Courtis Richard, shopkeeper Loosemore Rev. Robert Wood [curate], .Tory James, carpenter, Cost lost Gre~>n Bennett, tailor Cb1verton Lawer William, farmer, Treamble Ho!3kins John, carpenter Lord Rev. Alfred, Silverwell May John, carrier, Cocks Hoskins Nicholas, miller Perry Rev.John, M.A.L vicar],Chiverton Mitchell Sampsou, farmer, Hrr1drawna. Mitchdl William, 'Bottnderl' .tlrml' TRADERS. Mitcbell Samuel, mine agent, Mount Pascoe John, shopkeeper Alien William, farmer, Hendra Nancarrow Richd.mine agt.Perran well Rickard Henry, mine agent Barcluy Ann (Mr:i.), carrier, Miry Olher Charity, farmer, Reese Robins William, farmer bottom Pearce Thomas, farmer, ChynhaJle Trevethan Micbael, sen. butcher Batten Wm.carpntr.Panwartha coombe Penna Edward, faro~t•r, Hendra Bennetts Charles, farmer, ParkHosken Penna .Tames, farmer, HPndravosl'en Callestock. Bennetts Wm. Jno. farmer, Panwartha Penna William, farmer, Gear TRADERS. Phillips Samuel, farmer, Tywarnlutyle Benny Nar•ny (Mrs.),shopkeeper & sub• Bice William&Jno. farmers, Panwartba postmistress Blewett Thomas, farmer, Lamhriggan Richards I~aac, farmer, Mount Richards John, farmer, Treworten Bright John, farmer Borla~e Wiiliam, farmer, Panwartha Gill Henry, farmer, Little Callestock Brenton George, farmer, Silver well Richards William, miller, Treamblemill Retallack Thomas, farmer Cbapman William, farmer, EngiliPy Ripper John, miller, Treworten mill Reynold~ Waiter, Albert inn Clark Paul, farmer, Tresawsen Ri ppPr Mary Ann (M r.J. ), tarm( r, Perran Uowe Matthew, farmer Clark Wm. farmer, Little Tresawsen well Salmon "Villiam, blacksmith Clyma John, farmPr, Ventonvese Robir1s, Nicholas, farmer, Trevr-llance Shuf;!g John, tarmer,Callestock commn Clyma William, farmer, Ventonve5e Rowe Henry, farmer, Lambourue Tambiyn John, bailiff to Wm. Hodge, Rowe Tboma!', farmer, Golla Cobeldick, John, carrier, Mount et~q. , Callestock veor Cowlin Richard, farmer, Roseinvale Strongman John,shopkeeper,Tre1\'orten Trelease John, farmer Swan Joseph, farmer, Stampas Grigg William1 miller, Perran well Trelease Thomas, carpenter Harris George, farmer, Hendra Swan William, miller, New mill Harris John shopkeeper, Goonhaven Trenerry Richard, parish clerk & master Penhallow. Holman John, farmer, Bridge of N atioualschool1 Karnkelf TRADERS. Holman Mary (1\lrs.), farmer, Miry Trevetban Michael, JUn. farmer, Mouut Bennett William, shopkeeper bottom Tyzzer Richard 1 carr1er, Treamble lane Je11kin Honor (Mrs.), ' Plume of Hoskin John, hla('ksmitb, Anchor hill Tyzzer Samuel, f&rmer, Treworten Feather•' Hoskins NichoJaq, wheelwright, Me­ 'Warne John, farrnf'r, Gre11t Reen Jenkin John, carpenter razanvonse Warne Thomas, farmer, Nansmellyn Hoqkins Philippa (Miss), shopkeeper, Warne Thomas,jun. farmer,Pencranna Perran coombe. Merazanvouse Yelland John, hlack;~mith, Tannawater TRADERS• Hoskins Richard, farmer, Chiverton Bolingey. Daddow Joseph, carpenter James Jo~iah, stonemason, Panwartba TRADERS. Mitchell Thoma1:1, miller coombe Arga111ohn, '1Jfiners' Arm•' Penrose Edward, miller