It is perhaps too much to assume that they were given by the Great Alfred, although his visits to St. Neot must have brought that most illustrious of our kings into this neighbourhood. The baptising of bells, and their dedication, have so much prevailed, that these were in all probability cast long since the time of Alfred; but his name should have been their protection, if other protection were wanted than their consecrated use. The following monkish lines not unfrequently appear on bells made prior to the reformation: Laudo Deum verum――Populum voco――Congrego clerum Defunctos ploro――Fugo fulmina:――Festa decoro. Great Tom of Oxford, (called Thomas Clusius) while it remained at Oseney Abbey, and before it was re-cast for its present station in 1670, had this curious legend: In Thomæ laude resono BIM BOM sine fraude. It weighs 17,000 lbs. St. Minver measures 6604 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 8,354 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 834 17 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 788 | 851 | 1028 | 1110 giving an increase of 41 per cent. in 30 years. Present Vicar, the Rev. George Treweeke, also Rector of Illogan, presented by William Sandys, esq. in 1817. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The part of this parish which lies parallel with Endellion, resembles it in geological composition; but one part of it extends further north, and contains a compact rock of the same nature as that of Trevose Head in St. Merryn. MORVA. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN. Morva is situated in the hundred of Penwith, and is bounded to the west by St. Just, to the north by the sea, to the east by Zennor, to the south by Sancred and Maddern. It is a daughter church to Madderne, the vicar of which performs divine service, and preacheth in the morning on the first Sunday in every month. The said vicar hath the small tithes. Morva signifies Locus Maritimus, a place near the sea, as this parish is. The name is sometimes written Morveth, implying much the same sense.