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- 880 ST. GERMANS. CORNWALL. (KELLY's which is the vault. of the Eliots. The register dates from a. m.; from South Cornwall at 1.40 & 7.25 p.m.; dis the year 1590. The living is a vi{!arage; the rectorial tithes patched to South Cornwall at 4.40 & II a.m.; to the were commuted in r843 at£ r,649, of which the vicar receives North at 1.5 p.m. & to London at 7·7 p.m. ; sundays, [233 yearly; net yearly income, with augmentation from 7·7 p.m Queen Anne's bounty is £290, with residence and 3 acres SuB-POST OFFICE, Polbathick.-Charles Sm\th, sub-post of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and master. Letters arrive from St. Germans R.S.O. at 6.30 held since r874 by the Rev. Alan Furneaux M.A. of Ba1liol a.m.; dispatched thereto at 5.40 p.m. Me;;senget" leaves College,Oxford, and surrogate : St. Germans and Landrake, here for Crafthole & Portwrinkle at 6.40 a.m. returning with St. Erny are peculiars. The Wesleyan chapel, built in with letters at ro a.m. same day 1753 and rebuilt r825 and r88r, is a plain stone building, INSURANCE AGENTS:- seating about 250 persons. The poor have £r r4s. yearly, British Empire, W. S. Pearce, Downderry distributed in bread, and on the north side of the town there Imperial Fire, '3-eorge Brenton are 12 almshouses, erected by one of the Moyle family, to United Kingdom Temperance Life, G. Brenton the inmates of which, one shilling and a peck of wheat is West of England, R. Polgreen distributed yearly on New Year's day, by the owner of the Westminster Fire, F. S. Hawke estate charged, who is also bound to keep the dwellings in PUBLIC OFFICERS :- repair. There is a cattle fair held here on the 28th of May Clerk to Commissione1·s of Taxe.~, Richard Polgreen an3. a pleasure fair on the rst of August. The Freem'lsons Inspector of Police, Edmund Currah have a lodge here. The St. Germans and Polbathick Mutual ScHooLs:- Improvement Society occupies rooms in the Town hall, a Endowed (boys only), en1owed with £r,241 £3 per Cent. building lent by Earl St. Germans-Dr. J. B. Kerswill is Consols and 9 acres of land; Richard Polgreeu, master president; George Brenton,hon. secretary-and has a library Earl of St. Germans (girls only), Miss Louisa Hughes, of about 400 volumes. Port Eliot, the seat of the Earl of mistress St. Germans, is a large irregularly built mansion of stone, Railway Station, Richard Priest, station master with castellated parapet, pleasantly situated on the site of the ancient priory, in park-like grounds of about 500 acres, ST. GERMANS UNION. the higher portions of which command very extensive views Board day, alternate thursdays, at ro.45, at the Workhouse, of the surrounding country; in the dining-room which Torpoint. occupies a space on which formerly stood the monastic The union comprises the following places :-Antony, Botu,; refectory, there is a series of portraits by Sir Joshua Fleming, Landrake with St. Erny, L'lndulph, Mc~.ker, Reynolds, of members of the Eliot family, and there are also Pillaton, Quethiock, Rame, Saltash, Sheviock, St. Garmans some other good pictures by old masters ; the chief entrance with Tideford & Hessenford, St. John, St. l\lellion an l St.. to Port Eliot, built in 1848, is a Gothic structure, bearing Stephens-by-Saltash; the population of the union in r88 I the arms of the family. The Earl of St. Germans, who is was r6,717; rateable value, [84,340 lord of the manor, and Miss Copley are the principal land Clerk to the Guardians, Frederick W. Cleverton, Saltasb owners. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, argillaceous Relieving Officers, North district, W. E. E. Webber, Saltash; slate and limestone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley South dist1-ict, R. W. Hancock, St. John Antony and turnips. The area of the parish, including Tideford and Vaccination Officers, W. E. E. Webber, Saltasb; R. W. Hessenford, is 10,317 acres (including 320 of water), and of Hancock, St. John Antony; & R. Polgreen, St. Germ:o1.ns St. Germans alone about 2,317; rateable value,£ 15,434 17s.; Medical Officers tJ' Public Vaccinators, No. I district, J. W. the population, including the now separate ecclesiastical Gill M.R.C.P.Edin. St. Germans; No. 2 district, C. W. parishes of Tideford and Hessenford was in 188r, 2,307; St. Chubb, Torpoint; No. 3 district, E. J. Worth, Millbrook Get"mans alone in 1881 was 735- & A. B. Che\'es M.A., M.B. Millbrook ; No. 4 district, R. C. Revell, Saltash; No. 5 district, H. Boy le, Runnalls, Saltash Polbathick is a small hamlet in this parish, about r Superintendent Re,qistrar, Frederick W. Cleverton, Salta~h mile south-west from the village. Here are the agricultural Registrars of Births o/ Deaths, No. r, or Antony sub-district, engineering works of Mr. William Brenton. From the R. W. Hancock, St. Johns Antony; N"o. 2, or St. German.-; "Hut" on the coast, about 4 miles from St. Germans, very sub·district, R. Polgreen, St. Germans; No. 3, or Saltash extensive views of the sea and neighbouring country may be sub-district, W. E. E. Webber, Saltash obtained. Registrar of Marriages, W. E. E. Webber, Belle Vue terrace. Do wnderry, 4 miles south-west, is a small fishing-place Saltash in the civil parish of St. Germans, but ecclesiastically with Workhouse, Torpoint: W. Symons, master ; Rev. J. M. Hessenford. Hodge M.A. chaplain; C. W. Chubb, medical officer ; Mrs. Symons, matron ; Miss Emma Mason, schoolmistress Parish Clerk, John Hawke. Pos·r, MoNEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings RuRAL SANITARY AuTHORITY. Bank (Railway Sub Office.-Letters should have R.S.O. Clerk, Frederick W. Cleverton, Saltash Cornwall added).-Edward Richard Geake, receiver. Medical OJ!icer of Health, J. B. Kerswill, St. Germans Letters from London at 5-25 a.m ; from the north at 11.45 Inspector of Nuisances, S. P. Hosking, Landrake & St. Germans. Bolson John, grocer baker Parker Elizabeth(Mrs.)1draper & grocer, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bray George, butcher Treboul cross ' Cardew Joseph (e:xors. of), saddle & Pearce John Lanyon, grocer St. Germans Rt. Hon. Earl of, J.P. Port harness maker & ironmonger Pearce Samuel, tailor Eliot; 13 Grosvenor gardens & Tra Claridge Thomas, dairyman Pitt Sarah (Miss), grocer vellers' club, London s.w Couch Isaac, blacksmith, ironmonger & Polgreen Richard, clerk to commis~ Blight Walter news agent sioners of land & assessed & income Boucher Alfred Richard J.P. Trenear Creber William Francis, farmer, lime, taxes & registrar of births & deaths Evans Rev.John Amphlett M.A.[curate], manure, coal & general merchant, & vaccination officer for St. Germ::tns Cliff cottage Lanjore; stores, Polbathick sub-district & Furneaux Rev. Alan M.A. [vicar sur- Geake Thomas Henry, merchant & Rogers Daniel, linen draper &c rogate], Vicarage shipowner Sawell Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Geake Miss Geake Thomas Henry, jun. solicitor & Tudgay John, shopkeeper Geake Thomas Henry, Cuddenbeak ho public notary, Cuddenbeak house Geake Thomas Henry, jun. Cuddenbeak Gill John Wallis L.R.C.P.LOnd. surgeon Polbathick. house & medical officer & public vaccinator, Brenton William, agricultural engineer. Gill John Wallis rst district, St. Germans union millwright & patentee Jago John Rowse, Linehar cottage Hancock Richard, road surveyor Chiswell Lawrence, boot maker Kerswill John Bedford M.D. Fairtield Harris James, shopkeeper, Trerule foot Creber William Francis, lime, manure, Newport Theodore Hawke George Wm. boot & shoe maker coal & general mt>rchant & farmer; Soper Mt"s Hawke Fredk. Saml. carpenter & buildr residence, Lanjore Tapson Miss, Elm cottage Jenkin Mary (Mrs.), Eliot Arms com- May Nicholas, Halfway house Tapson Mrs. Elm cottage mercial hotel tJ' posting hou5e Oliver Robert, corn & seed merchant COMMERCIAL. Kerswill John Bedford, physician & Pearce Robert & Son, millers (water) Bersey William, boot & shoe maker medical officer of health to rural Smith Charles, shopkeeper Brenton George, building surveyor & sanitary authority, Fairfield Smith Richard, builder farm bailiff to the Rt. Hon. Earl of Paige Richard Edwin, farmer, Treboul Trevan William, farrier St. Germans & Criffie .