The manor of Plunent, vulgo Plynt. By Domesday Book it appears that this was one of the two hundred and eighty-eight manors given by William the Conqueror to Robert Earl of Morton, when he made him Earl of Cornwall. In the extent of Cornish acres, 12 Edward I. (Carew, fol. 49,) Plenynt is valued in nine. THE EDITOR. This parish is named in the valuation of Pope Nicholas, Pleymut or Palemyt. It paid at the general suppression of religious houses, £4. 15_s._ a year to the priors of Wilton. The church is spacious, although it has only two principal aisles, with two family aisles, standing across the other on the south side. There are various monuments in the church. A very large monument to Francis Buller, esq. ornamented with the figures of himself and of his wife in an upper compartment, and of twelve children below, besides other figures, and numerous coats of arms. This gentleman died in 1615. There is also a monument to Edward Trelawny, a barrister, much noted on account of its quaint and singular inscription, said to have originated from his never having practised his profession, except once gratuitously, to vindicate an individual suffering under some oppression: Edward Trelawny. Ana: We wander, alter, dy. O what a bubble, vapour, puff of breath, A nest of worms, a lump of pallid earth, Is mud-wall man; before we mount on high, We cope with change, we wander, alter, dy. Causidicum claudit tumulus (miraris) honestum. Gentibus hoc cunctis dixeris esse novum. Here lyes an honest lawyer, wot you what? A thing for all the world to wonder at. June the 7th, 1630. There are memorials to William Achym, Esq. as far back as 1589; to a de Bodrigan; and several to the Trelawnys. William of Worcester states this church to have been the burial place of St. Juncus, a holy personage not recorded in the Roman calendar. But Mr. Whitaker, without citing any authority, gives the patronage of the church and parish to St. Nunn, the mother of St. David, the Apostle of Wales, the first Archbishop of Menevia, since called after his name, and according to romance writers the champion, who having distinguished his levies by a leek as a cognizance, defeated the Saxons in a night attack, and drove them beyond the confines of his province. This church belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Newenham, in Devonshire, founded by Reginald de Mohun, lord of Dunster, about the year 1241. In the return made to King Henry the Eighth, and preserved in the Augmentation Office, occur these entries: