This parish contains 2789 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1524 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 318 1 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 318 | 478 | 592 | 721 giving an increase of 126 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The southern part, situated on granite, amounts to more than half the parish. Near Restowrick the granite is large-grained and crystalline, like that of the range of Roughtor and Brown Willy; but it is associated with porcelainous granite, similar to that of Breage and of St. Stephen’s (which will be noticed under the latter parish), and also with shorl and shorl rocks, as in Roach where the rocks are better displayed. [39] Erased, and the other names substituted. ST. DOMINICK. HALS. Is situate in the hundred of Eastwellshire, and hath upon the north, Calstock; east, the Tamar river; south, part of Landulph; west, St. Mellen. For the modern name of this parish and church, it is derived from St. Dominick the monk of Spain, presidual saint and tutelar guardian of this church, who instituted that religious order of men called Ordo Prædicatorum, or the Order of Preaching Monks or Friars, (who taught the Gospel without hire or reward, except what was given them of charity or alms, as the Franciscans did); he flourished anno Dom. 1215. At the time of Domesday Roll 20 William I. 1087, this district was taxed under the name of Halton. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester 1294, Ecclesia Sancti Dominici, in Decanatu de Estwellshire, was rated to first fruits or annats iii_l._ vi_s._ viii_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, it was valued at 23_l._ 11_s._ The patronage in Clarke, the incumbent Clarke, and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, 164_l._ 8_s._ History of St. Dominick, abridged from Hals: