St. Pinnock measures 2674 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1816 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 189 12 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 302 | 316 | 431 | 425 giving an increase of 40 per cent. in thirty years. Present Rector, the Rev. George Fortescue, instituted in 1789. GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. This parish is situated on the same kind of rocks as those of the adjacent parishes of Broadoak and Leskeard, which belong to the calcareous series. POUGHILL. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN. Poughill is in the hundred of Stratton, and is washed to the west by the sea and Bude Bay, to the north joins Kilkhampton, to the east and south Stratton. This church is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book, at £6. 12_s._ 6_d._; the patronage in the Crown, or in the Duke of Cornwall; the incumbent Mr. Charles Orchard. In the year 1291, 20 Edward I. the rectory of this church, by the name of Ecclesia de Pegwille, is valued at liij_s._ iv_d._ it being then appropriated to the Abbey of Cleve in Somersetshire; and the vicarage, “Nihil propter paupertatem.” In Domesday Book, amongst the manors given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother, Robert Earl of Morton, when he made him Earl of Cornwall, is Pochehelle, which probably gave name to this parish, turned euphoniæ gratiâ to Poughill. THE EDITOR. This parish, although it is small and situated in a remote part of the county, possesses several ancient family seats, and a well-built church, with various monuments, placed in a valley full of trees, and opening immediately to the sea. The manor, including the whole parish, originally without doubt in possession of the lands, although it is now become, like innumerable other manors, a mere royalty, was given by Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, to the Abbey of Clyve in Somersetshire. It is an instance, however, of the small reliance that can be placed on the orthography of ancient names, since the charter of Hubert de Burgo is in these words: “Sciant præsentes et futuri, quod ego Hubertus de Burgo Domini Regis Camerarius, dedi, concessi, et hac præsenti cartâ mea confirmavi, Deo et Beatæ Mariæ et monachis de Cliva, ibidem Deo servientibus et servituris, pro salute animæ meæ, et patris et matris meæ, et omnium antecessorum et parentum et herædum meorum, in perpetuam elemosinam, totum dominicum quod habui in Rugeham,” which must be Poughill. And in a charter of confirmation by Richard Earl of Cornwall it is thus mentioned: “Richardus comes Pictaviæ et Cornubiæ, &c. &c. noverit universitas vestra me concessisse, et hac præsenti cartâ meâ confirmasse, &c. totas terras quas habuerunt in Cornubiâ, videlicet Pochewille,” et Treglastan, cum pertinendis, quas prius habuerunt ex dono domini Huberti de Burgo comitis Kanc. &c.