The manor of Grylls in this parish formerly belonged to the Betensons, who intermarried with the Gilberts of Tackbear; and their arms remain in the church, Argent, within a bordure engrailed Ermine, a fess Gules, with a lion passant gardant in chief. The advowson of the rectory is annexed to the manor of Lesnewith, which belonged two centuries ago to the family of Dennis. It was a considerable time in the family of Glynn. Mr. Jose is the chief proprietor in the parish. Lesnewith measures 1,734 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1,400 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 133 16 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 104 | 105 | 123 | 127 giving an increase of 22 per cent. in 30 years. Present Rector, the Rev. Charles Worsley, instituted in 1813. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. Under the head of St. Cleather, a peculiar calcareous rock was noticed, consisting of a variety of hornblende and calc spar, either distinctly conjoined in a granular or laminated form, or so intimately blended, as to form an homogeneous green rock. A large bed of this peculiar rock occurs at Grylls or Garles, near the western boundary of the parish. An attempt was made here to burn this rock as a limestone for agricultural purposes; but after several trials it was abandoned; for, unless great care be taken in selecting those parts alone in which calc spar mainly abounds, the whole charge of the kiln vitrifies, or runs into a slag, owing to the great fusibility of hornblende, the other constituent of this calcareous rock. LESTWITHIEL. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN. Lestwithiel is in the hundred of Powder, and is surrounded to the west, north, and south, by Lanlivery; to the east it has Fowy river between it and St. Winnow. As for the name, I take it to be a corruption of Les-uchel, i. e. the lofty place, as having been from all antiquity the chief seat of the Dukes, &c. of Cornwall. Mr. Camden in Cornwall saith, “the Uzella of Ptolemy is seated, and has not yet quite lost its name, being called at this day Lestuthiell, from its situation. Now uchel, in British, signifies the same as _high_ and _lofty_.” But of this more when we come to describe the town. As for Mr. Carew’s derivation, who calls it Lostwithiel, from the Cornish Losswithiall, which in English, saith he, signifieth a lion’s tail, it is so ridiculous, as not to be worth repeating; neither doth the word carry that sense. This parish is a vicarage, valued in the King’s books at £2. 13_s._ 4_d._ The Duke of Cornwall is patron. The incumbent Mr. Baron, who succeeded Mr. Whiteford. This church is not valued in Tax. Benefic. anno 1291; and was then appropriated to the Priory of Bodmin. THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF LESTWITHIEL,