This Mr. Joseph Halsey being ordained priest, was made rector of the parish aforesaid, in the interregnum of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, after the discipline of Calvin, or Geneva. TONKIN. This is a daughter church to St. Probus, with which and Cornelly it is valued in the King’s Book. The vicar of Probus names the curate, but cannot remove him afterwards. The present curate, who holds both this and Cornelly, is Mr. Jonathan Daddoe. The manor of Fentongollan comprehends a great part of this parish, but the mansion house is in St. Michael Penkivell. THE EDITOR. Trevilian bridge is the most remarkable spot in this parish. It is situated in a beautiful valley, with a fine stream navigable for barges from Falmouth, which conveys large quantities of limestone from Plymouth, and of coast sand dredged in Falmouth harbour. In consequence also of the new line of road, completed about four years ago from Bodmin, and therefore from London to Truro, through Ladock valley, the Earl of Falmouth has made a private road to his own house, from the eastern end of this bridge, equal perhaps in beauty to any drive of an equal extent in the whole county. Some fairs are annually holden at this place, and it is recorded in history as the place where the treaty was agreed on for the surrender of the army of about five thousand men, commanded by Lord Hopton, then lying in Truro, to the troops of General Fairfax, on the 14th of March 1646. The church is very small, and, what is quite unusual in Cornwall, has a wooden edifice, it cannot be called a tower, to contain its single bell. Merthyr measures 1,492 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 2103 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 230 8 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 305 | 350 | 370 | 411 giving an increase of 35 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. This parish is composed of the same rocks as St. Clement’s, from which it is divided by one of the streams communicating with Falmouth harbour. MEVAGISSEY, OR MENA-GUISE-Y. HALS. Mena-guise-y vicarage is situated in the hundred of Powder, and hath upon the north St. Mewan, east St. Austell, south the British Channel, west Gurran. For the modern name it may be interpreted either the hill custom; otherwise, Mena-gusseg, after the Welsh, is the hill and waves or surges of the sea.