The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Goran measures 4,596 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 3487 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 950 0 0
Population, {in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 1009 | 1116 | 1203 | 1205
giving an increase of somewhat less than 19½ per cent. in
30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. David Jenkins, collated by the
Bishop of Exeter in 1824.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish forms a continuation of the calcareous series of St. Ewe.
At the Deadman point the rock is for the most part siliceous,
affording an example of the quartz rock of Dr. Macculloch.
GRADE.
HALS.
Is situate in the hundred of Kerryer, and has upon the north Ruan
Major, west Mullyan, east Ruan Minor, south Landawidnick. At the time
of the Norman conquest this district was taxed under the jurisdiction
of Lisart.
In the taxation of benefices in Cornwall, towards the Pope’s annats,
made by the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, 1294, Ecclesia Sancti
Grade in decanatu de Kerryer, was valued lx_s._ in Wolsey’s
Inquisition, 1521, 11_l._ 1_s._ 5_d._ The patronage in the Bishop of
Exeter; the incumbent Symons; and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per
pound Land Tax, 1696, 58_l._ 12_s._
TONKIN.
This parish takes its name from its titular female saint, St. Grada.
In the taxation of 1294, in the 20th year of Edward I. it is valued by
the name of Ecclesia Sanctæ Gradæ.
THE EDITOR.
The etymologies offered by Mr. Hals appear so very improbable that
they are omitted. If any such person as St. Grade ever existed, she
must have been among the tribe of early missionaries, of whom no
traces are left except that of their names being affixed to churches.
This parish has within its limits the manor and barton of Erisey, the
seat of a very respectable family bearing the same name, who gave for
their arms, Sable, a chevron between three griffins segreant Or. The
name has been extinct above a century, and the barton belongs by
purchase to Lord Falmouth. Several monuments of different members of
the family remain in the church.
The advowson of the living belongs by purchase to Mr. Rogers, of
Penrose. The parish feast is kept on the nearest Sunday to St. Luke’s
day. The family of Lord Wodehouse, through his marriage with Sophia
Berkeley, niece of Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, are supposed to
represent the Eriseys.
This parish measures 2,005 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 1357 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 208 2 0
Population, {in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 320 | 306 | 355 | 306
giving a decrease of nearly 4½ per cent. in 30 years; but
with unusual anomalies in intermediate enumerations.
Present Rector, the Rev. John Peter, instituted in 1818.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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