[CORNWALL.] ST. GERMANS. 756 [POST OFFICE Coxford. Hill. Sandercock John, shopkeeper Nottle William, farmer Ridgman Thomas, farmer Smeeth Mrs. farmer Rogers William, farmer Trease John, Yeoman Crackington Haven. Cock Miss Penkuke. Sweets. Rogers J ames, miller Marshal! John, farmer Cawsey Henry, shopkeeper Moyse Henry, farmer Dysard. Sandercock William, farmer Trencdck. Bray William, farmer Bond William, farmer Heal• J ames, farmer Rose are . Daw Thomas, farmer Hicks John, farmer Jewell Humphrey, farmer Hicks John, farmer Tinney Roger, farmer Petherick Cator, farmer Spittle John, farmer

ST. GERMANS is a large village and parish, near the Hessenford, St. John, St. M ellion, and St. Stephens by Salt­ river Tidi and the Lynher creek, 226 miles from London, 8 ash. The Board of Guardians meet at Torpoint every south-west from Saltasb, 9 south-west from Devonport, and alternate Thursday. The workhouse is at Torpoint. The 8~ south-east from Liskeard, and gives name to a union, in Freemasons have a lodge here. The St. Germans and Polba. the Eastern division of the county, southern division of the thick Mutual Improvement Society hold their meetings in hundred of East, Liskeard county court district, rural the 'fown Hall; R. W. P. Kerswill, esq., is hon. president. In deanery of East, nrchdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of connection with the society is a library with about 360 books. Exeter: the Cornwall railway passes through a part of the Port Eliot, the seat of the Earl of St. Germans, G.c.B., is a village, and has a station here. The church of St. Ger­ large building, pleasantly situated in park-like grounds,the manus consists of the nave, south aisle, and north and south higher portions of which command most extensive views of towers of an old conventual church: the most interesting the surrounding country: there are in the house several portions are at the western end, where nearly all the portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and some other good original Norman remains are to be found : the west front pictures by old masters. The ancient priory came into the consists of a deeply recessed and projecting Norman door­ posset'sion of the Eliot family by an exchange of property way between two towers; the north tower is Norman in its with the Champernownes in 1565 : the present library was two lower stages, and has plain round-headed windows of formerly the refectory of the priory. The Earl of St. one light in each story, an additional story has been added Germans, who is lord of the manor, and Sir J oseph William of an octagonal form, with pointed Early English windows Copley, hart., are theprincipallandowners. Thesoilisloam in each face: the south tower is N ormau in its lower stage and clay; subsoil, argillaceous slate and limestone. The only, the upper having been rebuilt (and another added) of chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips, &c. The area reduced dimensions, and of a later date; this tower is em­ of the parish, including Tideford and Hessenford, is 10,317 battled, and has a peal of 6 bells, bearin~ the date 1776: acres (including 320 of water), and of St. Germans alone both towers have newel stairs in the thickness of the walls. about 2,317; gross estimated rental, .£15,117; rateable value, The interior of the church was some years since restored, by £13,1:23; the population, including the now separate eccle­ taking away the plaster which disfigured it; other renova­ siastical parishes of Tideford and Hessenford, in 1871 was tions also have been made from time to time: the ancient 2,677; St. Germans alone in 1871 was 872. font, which was destroyed in 1793, and its fragments thrown Polbathick is a small hamlet in this parish, distant in the north tower, was restored and put together by the about 1 mile from the village. Here are the agricultural Rev. T. Furneaux, the vicar, in 1840. Here are some engineering works of Mr. William Brenton. From the ancient monuments of the Eliot family. A cenotaph was "Hut" on the coast, about 4 miles from St. Germans, most erected in 1854 by the tenants of the St. Germans estate, extensive views of the sea ami neighbouring country may be which bears the following inscription:-" To the memory of obtained. the Hon. Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot, second son of the Right Hon. Earl of St. Germans and J emima his wife, Downderry is a small fishing-place in the parish of St. J.. ieutenant and Captain of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Germans, and has a coast-guard station Guards, who fell while acting as Adjutant in the battle of Parish Clerk, Samuel Hawke. Inkerman, November 5th, 1854." The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor; the Rev. Tobias Furneaux, PosT & MONEY ORDER OFFICE, Post Office Savings M.A., of Magdalen Hall, Ox£ord, is the vicar, and also Bank & Telegraph Office.-Edward Richard Geake, surrogate for the diocese; the rectorial tithes were commuted receiver. Letters arrive per rail from London at at £1,649 in 1843; the vicar receives £88 yearly; the 5.25 a.m.; from the North at 11.45 a.m.; from South living is now worth. with augmentation of Queen Anne's Cornwall at 1.40 p.m. & 7.2.5 p.m.; dispatched to South bounty, the yearly sum of £150, with residence and 3 Cornwall at 4.40 a.m. & 11 a.m.; to the North at 1.5 p.m. acres of glebe. St. Germans and Landrake, with St. Erny & to London at 6.45 p.m are peculiars. The W esleyans have a chapel here, which is a SuB-PosT OFFICE, Polbathick.-Charles Smith, sub­ plain stone building, built in 1753, and capable of seating po!!tmaster. Letters arrive from St. Germans at o.30 about 250 persons. There is a school for boys, endowed with a. m.; dispatched thereto at 5.40 p.m. Messenger leaves £1,249 £3 per cent. consols, and g acres of land, and a girls' here for Crafthole, & Portwrinkle at 6.50 a.m., returnin5 school supported by the Earl of St. Germans. The poor with letters at 10.20 a.m. same day bave £114s. yearly, distributed in bread, and there are 12 INSURANCE AGENTS:­ almshouses, to the inmates of which wheat is distributed by Imperial Fire~ J. Cardew the owner of the estate charged. There is a cattle fair held Imperial Fire~ West of England, R. Polgreen: here on the 28th of May, and a pleasure fair on the lst of ScHooLs:- August. The union, which has a population of 17,948, com­ Endowed (boys only), Richard Polgreen, master prises the following places :-Antony, Botus Fleming, Lan­ Earl of St. Germans (girls only), Miss Ann Davies, drake with St. Erny, Landulph, Maker, Pillaton, Quethiock, mistress Rame, Saltash, Sheviock, St. Germans with Tideford and Raillvay Station, George Pound, station master. St. Germans. COMMERCIAL. • Carpenter John,jun. farmer,Carracawn PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Austin Samuel, farmer, Milladon Colley John, blacksmith St. Germans Rt. Hon. Earl ot~ G.C.B. Bastard George, farmer, Intown Coad John, farmer, Treliddon Port Eliot Batton William, farmer, Coldrenick Coad William, farmer, Trerule Eliot Baron, Port Eliot Bersey William, boot & shoe maker Creber William, farmer Furneaux Rev. To bias, M .A., J .P. [vicar Blight Waiter, mason GeakeCatherine&Mary(Misses),farmers & surrogate], Vicarage Bray George, butcher Geake Thos. Hy. merchant & shipowner Fumeaux Rev. Alan, M.A. [curate] Bray John, superintendent of police Hancock James, farmer, Care Hambley Mrs. Lynher cottage Brenton& Son, builders &c. Budge's shop Hancock Richard, farmer, Trenethick Kerswill John Bedford, Fairfield Brenton George, clerk of works to the Hancock Richard, road surveyor Kerswill R. W. P. Fairfield Rt. Hon. Earl of St. Germans Harris John, farmer, Trebrown Newport Theodore CardewJ oseph~saddler~& harne!.'s maker, Hawke George, boot & shoe maker Soper Mrs ironmonger, auctioneer, seed mer­ Hawke Samuel, carpenter & builder •rap son J ames, Elm cottage chant, & agent to the Imperial Fire Hocken William, farmer, Bara pill Tapson l\liss, Elm cottage Insurance Co Hopkins Thomas, carrier Tapson Mrs. Elm cottage Carpenter Francis, farmer, Pennywin J enkinEdward,EliotArms commercia Taylor Walker Pellowe, Cliff cottage Carpenter John, farmer, Carracawn hotel t posting house