The Editor cannot quit this parish without noticing that here resided as rector during many years the Rev. Robert Walker, who once entertained thoughts of really executing, what is now feebly attempted, a parochial history of Cornwall. The Editor well remembers waiting on him in 1787, to make inquiries respecting some of his own ancestors, when Mr. Walker, then far advanced in life, received him with the utmost kindness, insisted on his taking refreshments, and when they were declined on the ground of giving him trouble, Mr. Walker remarked, that such trouble was at once a duty and a pleasure, since our most important business in this world was to accommodate each other, and to make each other happy. In a letter from him dated November the 9th, of the same year, the parish is written Lewhitton. Mr. Walker is said to have been born in 1699. Lawhitton measures 2455 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 2715 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 246 15 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 289 | 368 | 435 | 485 giving an increase of nearly 68 per cent. in thirty years. Present Rector, the Rev. J. D. Coleridge, collated by Bishop Carey in 1826. GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. The rocks of this parish are very similar to those of Launceston. Where argillaceous earth, either alone or in conjunction with carbonate of lime, prevails in these rocks, the soil produced from them is very fertile; but sometimes silica is so predominant, that the ground is comparatively barren. LELANT. HALS. The manuscript relating to this parish is lost. TONKIN. Lelant is in the hundred of Penwith, and hath to the west Towednack, to the north St. Ives, to the east the river Hayle and St. Ives Bay, to the south St. Earth and Ludgvan. I take Lelant to be compounded of Le, a place, and Lan, a church, so as to signify the church place. It is dedicated to St. Uny, and therefore hath the adjunct of Uny Lelant mostly used in writings. But Leland calls it Lannant; and if that be the right name, it is a church in a valley. In the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of Pope Nicholas, Lanvanta or Laventa is rated at 15_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ It is a vicarage valued in the King’s book together with St. Ives and Tewednack, which pass in the same presentation, at 22_l._ 11_s._ 10_d._ The patronage in the Bishop of Exeter. The sheaf and tithe of fish in Lord Hobart, as heir to Sir John Maynard, who got possession of them from Edward Noseworthy, Esq. St. Uny, to whom not only this church, but also that of Redruth, and a ruined chapel in St. Wendrone, are dedicated, is by Leland called St. Unine. THE EDITOR.