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nmECTORY.] . PROBUS. 1131 emblazoned shield of the royal arms, dated 1655 : there are residence of stone, pleasantly situated and commanding 290 sittings: the churchyard is entered through a lych gate, extensive views of the surrounding country and the sea. and an avenue·oflimes leads up to the entrance. The register There are a number of other pleasant residences in this dates from the year 1537. The living is a vicarage, net . This was originally a. royal manor. George Bren­ yearly value £1°5, with residence and 3! acres of glebe, in don esq. who is now lord of the manor, Mark Shephard esq. the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1887 by the W. Brown esq. the Rev. Thomas Stone Carnsew B.A., J.P. Rev. Barton Reginald Vaughan Mills M.A. of Christ Church, vicar of Constantine and Mr. George Lewis Bridgman are Oxford. There is a Bible Christian chapel at Bush, erected the chief landowners. The chief crops are wheat, barley, iu 1869, and in the village is a Wesleyan chapel. A house oats and roots. The area is 1,700 acres (including 100 of and land were granted to the church by the Abbot of Cliff water); rateable value, £2,605 ; the population in 1881 was in Somersetshire in 1525. St. Olaf's Orphanage, in this 399. village, formerly a private residence, is for 10 friendless and Parish Clerk, Samuel Cornish. destitute girls, supported by voluntary contributions. On POST OFFICE.-Robert Fanson Skitch, receiver. Letters an eminence at the south-eastern extremity of the parish, through Stratton R. S. O. North , arrive at 8. 15 a.m. now called Stamford hill, the Parliamentary forces, com- &7.15p.m.; dispatched at 4.40 p.m. &7.5p.m. Stratton manded by Sir George Chudleigh, were signally defeated by is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal the Royalists under Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Beville Gren- orders are issued here, but not paid ville, on Tuesday, May 16, 1643 ; a cannon placed on the National School (mixed), erected in 1867, for 80 children; summit, with an inscribed tablet, commemorates the event. average attendance, 42; Miss Sarah Coombs, mistress Broomhill, the seat of George Brendon esq. is a handsome St. Olaf's Orphanage, Miss Frances Sarah Atkins, matron Blatchford William Tucker, Bush BridgmanGeorge Lewis, farmer & land- Prouse Samuel, Bay Tree farm Bone Frederick Reed, Trevalgass owner, Lower Northcott Prout Thomas, farmer, Wells Brendon George, Broomhill Gilbert George. farmer,Crabb &, Budges Rogers Thomas, farmer, Bow lane Chamier EdwinFrancisM.A.Stamford hI Gilbert Thomas, assistant overseer & St. Olaf's Orphanage (Miss Sarah Field Col. William Henry J.P. Trelana farmer, Wooda Atkins, matron) Gurney Miss, Reeds Gilbert Wm. farmer, Ivyleaf &Tiscott Skitch Robert, shoe maker, &post office Mills Rev. Barton Reginald Vaughan Jewell William, yeoman, Burshill Southwood John, mason, Lake cottage B.A. [vicar] Knight Samuel, miller (water) & farmr Trewin James, farmer, Maer Rowe William, St. Nectan's Knight Saml. jun. yeoman, Dye house Uglow Nicholas,farmer & mason,Mount WackIey William, Preston gate MetherellThos. farmr.HigherNorthcott Pleasant COMMERCIAL. Parnacott John, blacksmith Vinner James, farmer, Crockwood Barrable Daniel, farmer, Peaze Pennington Thomas, shopkeeper Wackley William Edward, carpenter Brock Joseph, farmer, Bush Penwarden David, butcher YelIand Thomas, farmer, Ashton

POUNDSTOCK is a parish, on the shore of bay, The principal landowners are Edward Mucklow esq. J.P. 5 miles south-by-west from Stratton and II~ west-south- (Lane.), of Head, Holsworthy, and Deputy-Con­ west from Holsworthy station on the London and South troller S. G. Bake, of Lanteglos-by-. The soil is Western railway, in the North Eastern division of the county, chiefly clay; subsoil, the same. The chief crops are wheat, hundred and petty sessional division of , union of barley, oats and roots. The area is 4,814 acres (including Stratton, Holsworthy county court district, rural deanery 190 of water) ; rateable value, £3,047 17s. 6d. ; the popula­ of Stratton, archdeaconryof and diocese of . tion in 1881 was 522. The ?hu:ch o! St. Neot is an l;tn?ient building of stone a~d , half a mile east; COPPETHORNE, I mile north­ gramte m m.lxed styles, conslstmg of chancel, nave of SIX east; PE~LEAN, 1 mile south j , half a bays, no:th aIsles, south. transept and ~n. embattled western mile south-east· TREGOLE half a mile south-west are tower WIth crocketed pmnacles, contammg 5 bells, all cast hamlets ' , in 1791 : portions of the screen with painted figures on it '. . remain, as well as some carved bench ends: the font is Sexton, Wilham Smeeth. Transition Norman and has a square bowl with arcaded POST OFFICE.-Thomas Rowland, receiver. Letters through sides: there is a brass to the Trebarfoote family, 1616-30, Stratton R.S.O. North Devon, arrive at 8.40 a.m. & dis- and others of later dates: the church is in a very dilapidated patched at 4 p.m. Stratton is the nearest money order condition, and its restoration is now (1889) contemplated & telegraph office at a cost of £1,500: there are 300 sittings. The register WALL LETTER Box at Treskinnick Cross, cleared at 3.40 dates from the year 1615. The living is a vicarage, tithe p.m. week days only rent-charge £170, gross income £243, including 25 acres of A School Board of 5 members was formed 27 July, 1874; glebe with house, in the gift of and held since 1888 by the James Broad, clerk to the board & attendance officer Rev. George Edward Clifton Morris. Here is a Free Metho- Board School (mixed), built in 1877, for 85 chilclren; dist chapel and a chapel for Bible Christians, erected in 1879 average attendance, 57; John Dobson Graf, master; Miss and seating 100 persons. The manorial rights are divided. Susan Marshall, assistant mistress Morris Rev. Geo Edwd. Clifton [vicar] Heard Joseph, miller (water), Wool- Medland Henry, farmer, Burracott COMMERCIAL. stone mill Medland Thomas, farmer, Crethorne Avery Richard, hind to Edward Muck- Heard Samuel, farmer, West Penn lane Neal William, farmer, Cawswell low esq. Blackdown Henwood Samuel, blacksmith, Tres- Parminter John, farmer, Batten In.blcksmth.Coppetthornecross kinnick cross Pearce Thomas (exors. of), farmer, Bray In. shopkpr. & tailor, Treskinnick Hicks Robert, farmer, Lower Kennicott Congdon Lewis, farmr. Low. Cawswell Hicks Thomas, shoe maker Rowland Thomas, shopkeeper, Post Dennis Judith (Mrs.),farmer,Woolstone Hill John, farmer, Mades office, Coppethorne Dennis Rd. (exors. of),frmr.Widemouth Jeffery Richard, hind to James Pellow Sandercock John, jun. farmer, Tre- Featherstone William, carpenter esq. Trewint kennard & Penlean Folley MaryAnn(Mrs. ),drss.ma.Pennla Legg James, hind to Edward Mucklow Sandercock Samuel, farmer, Trebarfoot Fry John, mIller (water), New mill esq. Penfound Sandercock Thomas, farmer, Penhalt Greenaway George, farmer, Trevissick Marks Thomas, farmer, New mills Shepherd John, farmer, Trevolter Greenaway William, farmer, Tregole Marks William, farmer, Penhalt Smeeth John, miller (water), Goman William, farmer, & registrar of Marks Nichols, farmer, Penhalt Stacey Nicholas, farmer, Longlands births & deaths for the sub-district Marshall Francis, Turk's Head P.H. Werren John, farmer, Herds of Week St. Mary &, marriages for Treskinnick cross Wilcock Anna (Miss), shopkpr. Bangors Stratton union, Treskinnick Marshall William, carpenter, Treskin- Wilcock Thomas, farmer, Hillscott Hawken Josrph, farmer, Tregole nick cross Yeo Daniel, shoe maker PROBUS, with a portion of the hamlet of , is Probus by a bridge across the river Fa!. The church of S. a large parish and compact village, situated on the high road and S. Probus, made collegiate by King Athelstan from Truro to St. Austell, 2t miles south-west from Gram- A.D. 926, for a dean and four prebendaries, but dissolved at pound Road station on the Cornwall (Great Western) rail- the Reformation, is an edifice of granite inthe Perpendicular way, 5~ north-east from Truro and 8 south-west from St. style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, north Austell, in the Mid division of the county, western division and south porches and a tower containing a clock and 6 bells: of the hundred of Powder, petty sessional division of Powder the tower, regarded by some as the finest in Cornwall, is South, Truro union and county court district, rural deanery constructed of St. Stephen's stone and is 108 feet high to the of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and . battlements, the angles are supported by double buttresses, Tresillian bridge, across the St. Clement's creek of the river embellished with embrasures, and above these rise 8 Fal, connects the of Merther and Probus. Merther crocketed pinnacles 13 feet in height, each with 4 lesser and Cornelly were originally portions of this parish. A pinnacles: the phnth, cornices and upper story are orna­ small portion of the town of is in Probus and mented with small figures, foliage, fleurs-de-lis, animals and the remainder in Creed; the latter being connected with other carvings, and on the north and south sides are three