The Editor remembers to have heard as facts, from an old lady of Bodmin, who died many years before the words ‘political economy,’ were pronounced in England, that the last Lord Radnor kept house at Lanhidrock in the style of ancient baronial magnificence; that a bullock was killed every week, and a sheep every day; and that whatever remained over-night of meat, of broken bread, or of certain allowed quantities of beer, were on the morning distributed at the gate; and that in consequence the whole neighbourhood became idle, depraved, and vicious, to such a degree as to force itself on the notice of every one, and to produce a full conviction of the utter destruction that must ensue if it were possible that such mistaken liberality could be common. The manor of Lanhidrock belonged in former times to the Glynns, of Glynn. Mr. Lysons says that it passed from them as a marriage portion to the family of Lyttleton, and from them by a heiress to Trenance; and that in the year 1620 Lyttleton Trenance, Esq. sold it to Sir Richard Roberts, afterwards created Lord Truro. Mr. Tonkin has stated that this gentleman built the house; but the whole place has the appearance of much greater antiquity: that he improved and decorated the building, and perhaps added the barbican and the connecting walls, is very probable. Lanhidrock measures 1659 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1213 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 137 6 0 Population, {in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 187 | 235 | 251 | 239 giving an increase of 28 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The south-western corner of this parish touches on the granite; the rest is composed of rocks belonging to the porphyritic series, being principally varieties of compact and schistose felspar rocks, containing mica or horneblende, or a mineral of an intermediate nature, not easily discriminated. [9] See Nichols’s Progresses, &c. of King James, iii, 230. LANIVET. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN. Lanivet, in the hundred of Pider, hath to the west Withiel, to the north and east Bodmin and Lanhydrock, to the south St. Roach, Luxilian, and Lanlivery. This parish is a rectory, valued in the King’s books at 24_l._ The patronage in Kelland Courtenay, Esq. and the heirs of Anthony Nicholl, Esq. of Penrose, _alternis vicibus_. The incumbent Mr. Vasnoom. A. D. 1291, 20th Edward the First (the valuation of Pope Nicholas) this Church is rated at 8_l._ having never been appropriated. In treating of the estates of this parish, I shall begin with Tremere, the great town, called in Domesday book Tremer, being one of the numerous manors in this county given by William the Conqueror to his half brother, Robert Earl of Morton, with the Earldom of Cornwall. Mr. Carew calls it Tremore.