Lanarth has been for a considerable time the residence of the Sandys family. The Rev. Sampson Sandys lived there to a very advanced age. He was probably grandson to the gentleman whose wonderful escape to the coast of France is detailed by Mr. Hals under the name of Sanns, which the editor remembers to have heard was the original appellation of their family, till they adopted the name and cross-crosslets of the Sandys of Ombersley. Mr. Sampson Sandys was succeeded at Lanarth by his nephew, Mr. William Sandys, a colonel in the army of the East India Company, who rebuilt the house, and greatly improved the place. The rectory was, before the Reformation, appropriated to the Abbey of Beaulieu in Hampshire, founded by King John. In the schedule of the property returned to King Henry the VIII. on its surrender, are the following entries, which may be found in the Augmentation Office. Com. Cornub. St. Kivion――Redd. Assis. lib. ten. 2 15 10 Redd, et Firm. ten. ad volunt’ 8 2 4 Terr. dominic. 1 16 8 Tregonon, firma molend. 1 2 6 Opera autumpnal’ 0 1 6 Perquis’ cur’ 1 7 2 Firma rector’ 57 4 0 Helston red. annual’ 6 3 4 The reasons assigned for King John founding this magnificent Cistercian Abbey of Beaulieu, or De Bello Loco, are so curious, and so illustrative of the profligacy and weak superstition united in forming his character, that the Editor thinks it right to insert the following original, with a translation.