It is said that the cavalry commanded by King Charles the First was stationed at St. Veep when the infantry of the opposite army capitulated at Fowey. This station was probably selected for the purpose of preventing a retreat to Plymouth; which however the cavalry effected by passing the river some miles higher up, but not without much blame attaching to many officers on the royalist side, and especially to General Goring. St. Veep measures 2394 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 4087 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 477 17 0 Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 506 | 511 | 585 | 697 giving an increase of 38 per cent. in 30 years. Net Value of the benefice in 1831, £215. Since the above was written, Mr. Every, Vicar of this parish, and a magistrate in the prime of life, is no more.――1836. THE GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. The rocks of this parish belong to the calcareous series, and are similar to those of Lanreath and Lanteglos. VERYAN. HALS. Veryan is situate in the hundred of Powder, and hath upon the north Tregony and Ruan Lanyhorne, east Caryhayes, west Philley, south the British Channel. Sure I am that in the Domesday Book 1087, this church or district was taxed under the name and jurisdiction of Elerchy, situate upon the lands of the Bishop of Bodman, now the Bishop of Exeter’s manor of Elerchy; and by the same name it was taxed in the inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester 1294, where we read Ecclesia de Elerky in decanatu de Powdre £10. vicar’ ejusdem 40_s._; and in Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, alias St. Verian as aforesaid, £19; the patronage in the Bishop of Exeter; the incumbent ――――; the rectory in possession of ――――; and the parish rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax 1696, for one year, £216. 9_s._ by the name of Verian. Note further, that Cæsar in his Commentaries mentions several places in Gallia, called Elerci and Aulerci, from whence this word came into Britain. Those were of four sorts, viz. Aulerci Eburorices, now Eureæ in Normandy, Aulerci Diablentres, Aulerci Cenomanni, now Mans, and Elerci Branovices.