In the Taxation of Ecclesiastical Benefices by the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, under the authority of Pope Nicholas, will be found: Taxatio. Decima. Ecclesia de Sancto Ladoca £6 0 0 0 12 0 In Wolsey’s Valuation, Ladocke 18 0 0 1 16 0 Besides the church town there is one considerable village in this parish called Bedock or Besock, after the manor of which it forms a part. Mr. Pitt not only acquired the alternate presentation to this rectory by purchase from the family of Mahon, as is stated by Mr. Tonkin, but also the manor of Ladock, which had previously belonged to the Carminows and Courtenays. The barton of Trethurfe has passed by the heiresses of Kelland Courtenay to the families of Poyntz and Boyle. The barton of Nansaugh is the property and the residence of Mr. Andrews. Hay, noticed by Mr. Tonkin as belonging to Mr. Richard Bone, came by purchase to the Hearles of Penryn, and in the division of the lands belonging to that family, it has fallen to Mrs. Stephens, of Tregenna. The manor of Bessake was acquired by Mr. Francis Tregian, son of the gentleman from whom it had been seized, but soon afterwards it passed by sale to the Arundells, from them by gift to the Moncktons, who have added the name of Arundell; and finally Robert Monckton Arundell, Viscount Galway, sold it in 1780 to the late Sir Christopher Hawkins. The Rev. John Eliot, rector of this parish, and of Truro, who died in 1760, founded two exhibitions at Exeter College for young men from Truro school. The vale, extending from north to south quite across this parish, is one of the most beautiful in Cornwall: it was, however, little known beyond the immediate neighbourhood, till the line of road forming the great communication from Falmouth, and the whole western part of the county, with London, was carried through it in the year 1830. The church and tower, which are handsome in themselves, stand on a commanding situation, and are seen to great advantage from the new road. Ladock measures 4,859 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 4,566 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 310 2 0 Population, {in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 542 | 651 | 806[8] | 761 giving an increase of 40 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. This parish is entirely situated on rocks belonging to the slate series; its northern corner, however, approaches very near to the boundary of the granite. Its different kinds of slates are the same as those of the adjacent parishes of St. Enoder and St. Erme; the rocks of its northern and eastern boundaries resembling those of St. Enoder, the southern part corresponding to those of St. Erme.