Borough 1860 1975 2423 2853 Parish 848 909 1096 1189 ―――― Together 4042, giving an increase on the borough of 53½ per cent.; on the parish of 42 per cent.; on both of 49 per cent. in 30 years. Present Vicar, the Rev. T. Foote, instituted in 1821. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The rocks of this parish are principally on the boundary of the porphyritic and calcareous series; partaking of the former in the northern part, and of the latter in the southern. The former sometimes nearly resemble hornblende schist; and, gradually leaving the hornblende, they pass into a coarse, lamellar, argillaceous rock, of a dirty yellowish brown colour, irregularly and indistinctly marked with blue spots. There are several large quarries in this rock round the town of Leskeard, where the stone is extensively used for building. It very nearly approaches in character to that of Bodmin, but is not quite similar. THE EDITOR. At a short distance from the town, on the road side leading towards Plymouth, occurs a soft micaceous schist, of a deep yellow tinge, which was most unfortunately mistaken for an ore of gold, about fifty years since, by a Mr. Hoskin, of Leskeard, and by his son, a clergyman, who, in utter ignorance of modern science, expended considerable sums of money in erecting machinery, for the prosecution of pursuits so vain as the raising of gold ore and extracting the metal. LESNEWITH. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN. Lesnewith is in the hundred of the same name, and hath to the west Trevalgar, to the north Tintagell and Minster, to the east Otterham, to the south Davidstow. I have always imagined, whether rightly or not I am not certain, that this place, instead of giving name to the hundred, changed its own, when this was divided into two hundreds, Strathan and Lesnewith; having been formerly but one hundred, called Trigg Major, as they still continue in respect to ecclesiastical affairs; and if so, then the name signifies the New Court. This is a rectory valued in the King’s book at £8, the incumbent Mr. Crewys. This church, in 1291, by the taxation of Pope Nicholas, was valued at £4. 6_s._ 8_d._ never having been appropriated. I shall begin with the principal estate in this parish, the manor of Lesnewith. In the third year of Henry IV. Henry de la Pomeroy held here and in Trevygham half a knight’s fee. I fancy this to be the same which is called in Domesday Book by the name of Lisniwen. And if so, it was one of the manors which William the Conqueror gave to his half-brother the Earl of Morton, with the earldom of Cornwall. THE EDITOR. There does not appear to be any thing remarkable in this parish. The only village, except the church town, is Treworrell.