“John Mayow descended from a genteel family of his name, living at Bree in Cornwall; was born in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West in Fleet-street, London, admitted scholar of Wadham College the 27th of September 1661, aged sixteen years; chosen Probationary Fellow of All Souls College soon after, and upon the recommendations of Henry Coventry, esq. one of the Secretaries of State; where, though he had a legist’s place, and took the degrees in the civil law, yet he studied physic, and became noted for his practice therein, especially in the summer time in the city of Bath; but better known by these books, which show the pregnancy of his parts. De Respiratione, Tractatus Unus. Oxon. 1668-69, 8vo. De Rachitide, Tractatus Unus.――Ibid. De Sale Nitro et Spiritu Nitro Acerbo.――Oxon. 1674, in a large octavo. De Respiratione Fœtus in Utero et Ovo.――Ibid. De Motu Musculari et Spiritibus Animalibus.――Ibid. And all the five were printed again at the Hague in 1681. “He paid his last debt of nature in an apothecary’s house in York-street, near Covent-garden (having been married a little before, not altogether to his content) in the month of September 1679, and was buried in the Church of St. Paul, Covent-garden.” Mr. Bond adds, with respect to this parish, that Polgover, sometime a seat of the Mayows, still belonging to that family; and Lydcott (about a mile from thence) a seat of the family of Hill, now the property of Mr. Braddon, are both farm houses. A manor, or reputed manor, called Wringworthy, belongs to the Copleys of Bake. The only place of trade in this parish is a small village, situated at the spot where the Looe River ceases to be navigable for barges at high water. There are several kilns for burning lime, which is used to a great extent throughout all the neighbourhood as a manure; but the modern name of Sand Place indicates a recent origin. Here the canal to Leskeard terminates. The church is in the same beautiful vale as the manor house. It contains several monuments in memory of individuals belonging to the families of Mayow, Kendall, Coode, &c. The great tithes belonged to the priory of St. German’s; and in the Valor Ecclesiasticus in the time of King Henry the Eighth, preserved in the First Fruits Office, they are rated, Morvall, decimæ garbæ - £10. The great tithes now belong to Mr. Buller. The presentation to the vicarage is in the Crown; and the present Vicar is the Rev. Stephen Puddicombe, presented by Lord Chancellor Eldon in 1803.