“In 1783, one of the ancient British ornaments of gold, in the form of a crescent, with a narrow zigzag pattern slightly engraven on it, and weighing two ounces, four penny weights, and six grains, was discovered near the remains of one of the circular earthworks in the neighbourhood of Penzance. This curious relic is now in the possession of Rose Price, esq.” Gold ornaments, similar if not identical with this very curious remnant of remote antiquity, have been found in other parts of this island, and also in Ireland. One very like it in bronze, taken from a stream pool in 1802, is in the possession of Mr. William Rashleigh at Menabilly. Objects so interesting have not failed of exciting investigation and conjecture; and they have been fancied to be a decoration of the chief priest among the Druids, worn round his head, and indicating by the crescent shape the exact age of the moon best adapted for ensuring the greatest possible virtues to the holy misletoe, which was then to be severed from its parent oak. Paul measures 2,865 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 7,464 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 785 7 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 2937 | 3371 | 3790 | 4191 giving an increase of 42½ per cent. in 30 years. Present Vicar, the Rev. C. G. Ruddock Festing, presented by Lord Chancellor Eldon in 1826. THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. A narrow belt of slate, belonging to the porphyritic series, bounds this parish on its eastern side, as far south as the village of Mousehole; it consists for the most part of hard massive and schistose varieties of compact felspar, occasionally spotted or intimately blended with actynolite and hornblend, or with some mineral intermediate between them. The rest of this parish is situated on granite, exhibiting the same varieties as that of Burian and St. Levan. At Mousehole the slate and granite may be seen in contact with each other, the granite occurring as veins in the former rock. [7] He was consecrated a Bishop by Justus, then Bishop of Rochester, before he went. PELYNT, OR PLYNT. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN AND WHITAKER. Pelynt, vulgo Plynt, lies in the hundred of West, and joins to the west with Lantegles and Lansallas, to the north with Lanreath, to the east with Duloe and the river Loo, to the south with Tallant. In Domesday Book this parish is called Pluwent. This church is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book at £17. 18_s._ 6_d._; the patronage in John Francis Buller, esq. the incumbent Mr. Howell. This church, in anno 1291, 20 Edward I. was valued, (Tax. Benef.) viz. the rectory at £8, being then appropriated to the abbey of Wilton, in Wiltshire; and the vicarage at 40_s._