That the manor of Walesborough gave name to an ancient family residing there, from whom it went with an heiress to the family of Trevelyan, from whom it was purchased by the late Mr. Justice Buller, and now belongs to his grandson. Mr. Lysons further states, that the manor of Hilton, also in this parish, was held jointly by the families of Cobham, Carminow, and Botreaux; that it subsequently came into the possession of a Rolle, and now belongs to the Rev. John Kingdon. Wood-Knowle was formerly the residence of the Rolles, probably of the branch which came possessed of Hilton; it is now the residence of the Rev. Henry Badcock. The Rev. John Kingdon is Patron of the rectory, and the present incumbent, instituted in 1818. The whole parish is fertile, variegated by hill and dale, and moreover, notwithstanding its maritime situation, abounds with trees, so that the prospect is every where interesting, and the church, almost inclosed in a grove, presents a very pleasing object. Marhamchurch measures 2,392 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 2,485 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 339 3 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 414 | 448 | 647 | 659 giving an increase of 59 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. Doctor Boase says of the geology, that the whole rests on massive and schistose varieties of dunstone, a member of the calcareous series, similar to what may be found in the adjoining parishes of Launcells, Bayton, and Kilkhampton. ST. MARTIN’S, NEAR LOOE. HALS. St. Martin’s rectory is situate in the hundred of West, and hath upon the north Morvall by Looe, south and west the British Channel and Looe Haven, east Seaton River and St. Germans. This parish is denominated from the church thereof, as it is from its tutelar guardian and patron St. Martin, Bishop of Tours in France, which was a famous endowed rectory church before the Norman Conquest, as is testified by the Domesday book in Cornwall 20 William I. 1087, wherein we read, Lant Martin, i. e. Martin’s church, chapel, or temple, now turned to St. Martin. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester into the value of Cornish Benefices 1294, Ecclesia de Sancto Martino in decanatu de West, was valued 9_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, St. Martin juxta Looe 36_l._ The patronage in the Duke of Bolton; the Incumbent Hancock. The Parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax 1696, 178_l._ 17_s._ 5_d._; East Looe town, within its precincts, 53_l._ 9_s._; in all 222_l._ 6_s._ 5_d._