Mr. Lysons says, The church town is in all ancient records called the borough of Week St. Mary, and the occupiers of certain fields are still called burgageholders. The ancient manor of Week St. Mary appears to have been merged in that of Swannacot, which belonged to the late Lord Dunstanville by inheritance from his great grandmother, heiress of the Heles. The manor of East Orchard Mauvais was purchased from Mr. Dennis Rolle by the late Sir John Call. There is a place near the church town called Castle Hill, believed to be the site of an ancient fortress. The advowson of the rectory belongs to Sidney-Sussex College in Cambridge, having been given to that Society in exchange for another immediately connected with his residence by Lord Carteret, who inherited the disposal of this preferment from the family of Grenville. Week St. Mary measures 5,167 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 3,012 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 367 11 0 Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 566 | 612 | 782 | 769 giving an increase of 36 per cent. in 30 years. Present Rector, the Rev. Walter Gee, presented by Sidney-Sussex college in 1821; net value of the living in 1831, £388. GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. The rocks of this parish are of the same nature as those of Poundstock and Jacobstow. WENDRON. This parish has been already described under the name of Gwendron, in the second volume. ST. WENN. HALS. St. Wenn is situate in the hundred of Pider, and hath upon the north St. Breock, east Withiell, south Roach, west St. Colomb Major; but whether named from its tutelar guardian and patron, Sanctus Wina, or Wena, the Bishop of Winchester, anno Dom. 660, translated to London anno Dom. 666, who died 670; or from Anwena or Unwena, Bishop of Dorchester, anno Dom. 786, I know not. This place is that San Vene, or Wena, taxed in the Domesday Book, and the only church or district in all that book in Cornwall to which was added the pronoun Saint, of which I have spoken elsewhere. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester into the value of Cornish Benefices, Ecclesia de Sanct. Wenne in decanatu de Pidre 1294, was rated at vi_l._ xiii_s._ iiii_d._ Vicar’ ejusdem xiii_s._ iiii_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, £16. 6_s._ 8_d._ The patronage was formerly in the Prior of Bodman, who endowed it; afterwards, when that Priory was dissolved, in the Crown; from whence it passed to Prideaux of Netherton, by him sold to Rashleigh, now in possession thereof. The incumbent Bedford; the rectory in Rashleigh; and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, for one year, £126. 4_s._ About the year 1663, the tower and bells of this parish church were struck down with thunder and lightning, and broken to pieces in a stormy night, and a great part of the roof of the church broken in.