This parish contains 2,673 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 2529 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 221 9 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 304 | 347 | 505 | 525 giving an increase of 73 per cent. in 30 years. Parish Feast on the nearest Sunday to November the second, or to all Souls Day. THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The most southern portion of Cury forms a part of Goonhilly Downs, which rest on a dark and rather hard serpentine, spangled with small scales of diallage, and having asbestos, indurated talc, and other magnesian minerals, lining the joints, by which this rock may be easily split. The remainder of the parish is composed of compact and schistose hornblend rocks, of the calcareous series, which are best exposed on the shores of Gunwalloe. DAVIDSTOWE. HALS. Is situate in the hundred of Lesnewith, and hath upon the north Lesnewith, west Lanteglos, south Altar Nunn, east Treneglos. Its present name David refers to the tutelar guardian or patron of this church, David, Bishop of Menevia in Wales. At the time of the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester into the value of Cornish benefices, 1294, Ecclesia de Sancto David in Decanatu de Major Trigshire was rated vii_l._ v_s._ Vicar ibidem xv_s._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition and Valor Beneficiorum 8_l._ The patronage in the Crown, the incumbent Pennington; the rectory in possession of ――――, and the parish rated to the four shillings in the pound Land Tax 1696, 163_l._ 10_s._ _The History of St David._ He was a Welsh Briton by birth, but of what place in Wales I know not, about the year 840; bred up in the Christian religion; afterwards became learned in all the liberal arts and sciences; was ordained priest, and by reason of his regular living and sanctity of life, was constituted Presul or Bishop of Menevia, and held the Christian faith in great purity, opposite to the doctrines of Arius and Pelagius. Near this church is situate the barton of Davidstowe, formerly the lands of ―――― Pearse, Gent. whose daughter and heir carried it, together with herself, in marriage, to John Nicholls, Esq. whose son married Erisey, his grandson a daughter of Sir Joseph Tredinham, Knight, as his father did Pearse. Since which time the heir general of this family of Nicholls is married to ―――― Glynn, of Glynn, Esq. TONKIN.