This place I suppose is that manor of land in the Domesday roll taxed by the name of Chor, also Chore, and now vulgarly called Cud-chore, or Cud-jore, viz. the wood-play, interlude, show, or diversion; pageants, sights, pastimes, to delight the people. Now choariou in Cornish, hoariou in the Armorican tongue, is as ludi in Latin, and ludo and ludus. And further memorable it is that Sir Samuel Coswarth of this place frequently styled himself Sir Samuel Cudjore for Cudchoariou, for such was the name of the place before the woods about were destroyed. Then it assumed the name of Cosowarth, i. e. the further-off wood, when the woods on the south-west part of it were destroyed. Tonkin has not any thing of the least importance different from Mr. Hals. THE EDITOR. This parish contains 1481 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1685 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 94 14 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 191 | 221 | 259 | 261; giving an increase of nearly 37 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The geological structure in this parish is not very evident; but where the rocks are exposed they very much resemble some varieties of the calcareous series. ST. COLOMB MAJOR. HALS. Is situate in the hundred of Pyder, and hath upon the north side Little Pedyrick, St. Ewyn, and St. Issey; on the east, St. Wenn and Roach; west, Maugan; south, St. Enedor, Little Collun, and St. Dennis. At the time of the Norman Conquest the name of this parish or church was not extant, for then it was taxed under the names of Tollscat or Todscad, now the duchy manor of Tollskidy, (that is to say, the shady hole, or pit,) Bodeworgy, and Chiliworgy, places still well known in those parts. At the time of the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, 1294, into the value of Cornish church revenues, Ecclesia de Sancte Colombe Majoris in Decanatu de Pedre was taxed 18_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition, and Valor Beneficiorum, it was valued at 53_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._; the patronage in Arundell of Lanherne, the incumbent Bishop, Pendarves, Collyar, and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, 306_l._ 9_s._ 4_d._