As you enter into this parish from the West, you pass over a stone bridge of ―――― arches, at the foot of which, and in the meadows around, stood the old town of Tregony, part of the ruins of which are sometimes visible after great floods; and a little to the north of the bridge are still standing a part of the walls belonging to the church dedicated to St. James Minor, which gives the title of rector to the incumbent at St. Cubye, although he is not obliged to take a distinct presentation. The patron, Prideaux of Devonshire. THE EDITOR. Much of uninteresting legend has been omitted from Hals respecting the patron saint, and some fanciful etymologies from him and from Tonkin. Mr. Whitaker has collected every thing that can be known or conjectured respecting the ancient state, not of Tregony, but of a town or city supposed of great commercial and ecclesiastical importance, which must have stood nearly on the same spot. Mr. Whitaker describes the ancient castle, and a priory adjacent to it. The whole, including further particulars of the patron saint, is much too long for this parochial history. It may be found in Mr. Whitaker’s work, “The Cathedrals of Cornwall historically surveyed,” 2 vols. 4to, 1804, vol. II. sec. ii. Bishop Tanner says of Tregony, in his Notitia Monastica, the advowson of the Priory of Tregony, as belonging to the Abbey of De Valle, in Normandy, is mentioned fin. div. com. 52 Hen. III. n. 18. Perhaps, instead of the priory, it should have been only the rectory or church of St. James, in Tregony; which, by means of some exchange, was made over by the abbot and convent of De Valle to the prior and convent of Merton, to whom it was appropriated, and a vicarage endowed by Peter Quiril, Bishop of Exeter. Dugdale, edit. 1830, vol. VI. p. 1045, repeats from Tanner, and adds in a note, Tanner says: Vide inter munimenta Eccl. Cath. Exon, cartam Abbatis et Conventus de Valle, de resignatione hujus Prioratus. See also MS. Cole, British Museum, vol. XL. p. 59. Cubye contains 2,186 statute acres. Annual Return of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 £2,402 Tregony 841 3243 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831, the parish £187 15_s._ ―――― the town 466 3 653 18 0 Population, { in 1801,|in 1811, |in 1821, |in 1831, The parish, { 139 | 152 | 140 | 155 The town, { 937 | 923 | 1035 | 1127 ―――― | ―――― | ―――― | ―――― 1076 | 1075 | 1175 | 1282 giving an increase on the whole of 19 per cent. in 30 years. Present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Vaughan, presented by the Marquis of Cleveland in 1825. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. Cubye extends much further south than the parishes of Cornelly and Creed; but it is composed of similar kinds of rocks, principally abounding in beds of a lamellar micaceous rock, all belonging to the micaceous series.