The church and tower are plain on the outside, but within are several handsome monuments to the Corytons. It seems much more probable that this church is dedicated to Mellitus, the first Bishop of London, and third Archbishop of Canterbury, than to an obscure African lady. Bede has given various particulars of this eminent person, and his life may be found in Capgrave’s Aurea Legenda. He led a second body of missionaries in aid of the great St. Austin, and the conversion of a Pagan temple into a Christian church, since expanded into St. Paul’s Cathedral, and also the foundation of Westminster Abbey, are imputed to him. He departed this life on the 24th of April, in the year 624. St. Mellion measures 2410 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1928 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 163 8 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 284 | 326 | 321 | 330 giving an increase of 16 per cent. in 30 years. The Rev. George Fortescue died Rector of St. Mellion in 1835. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The Geology of this parish is precisely the same as that of St. Dominick. MENHENIOT. HALS. Men-hyn-yet, Men-hin-iet vicarage, is situate in the hundred of East, and hath upon the north Linkinhorne, east Quethiock, south St. Germans, west Leskeard. For the modern name of this parish, it is taken from the manor of Men-hin-iet within the same; which is compounded or conjugated of Cornish and Saxon, and signifies old or ancient stone gate; for the terminative particle yet, jet, in Saxon signifies a gate (as porth in British). This manor is one of the franchises of Cornwall, privileged with the jurisdiction and freedom of a court leet, for plea of debt or damage between party and party, within the precincts thereof, by the Kings of England or Earls of Cornwall; and hath its steward and bailiff to attend the public services thereof, as the hundred of East hath. At the time of the Norman Conquest this district was taxed under the jurisdiction of Trehavock, now Trehawke, of which more under. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, into the value of Cornish benefices, 1294, Ecclesia de Manyhynyet, (id est, English Saxon, and Cornish, many ancient or old gate,) in decanatu de Est, is rated £8. In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, £21. 15_s._ 4_d._ The patronage in Exeter College, in Oxford; none but Fellows admittable to the cure; the incumbent Snell; and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, temp. William III. £332. 6_s._ by the name of Men-hyn-iet, as aforesaid. Men is the common contraction of meyn, mein, main, a stone; and hyn, him, the corruption of hen, heyn, hain, old, ancient. See Floyd upon Lapis.