inhabiting without the Borough, and not belonging to the liberty of this or some other Borough, shall buy rough Hides within the Borough, under pain of forfeiture. And we grant and restore, to the Mayor and Burgesses, all and singular the Manors, Lands, Commons, Franchises, &c. which the Burgesses, &c. have ever heretofore enjoyed, &c. upon payment of the ancient farm of £5. 10s. at the receipt of our Exchequer, at Michaelmas. And do discharge all other rents and demands, &c. and grant these letters patent without fine, &c. Witness ourself at Westminster, this 27th of August, the 38th of our reign. By writ of Privy Seal. Wilmot." This Charter was drawn under the direction of Mr. Charles Rashleigh, the first Common Clerk, and settled by Sir Vicary Gibbs, then Attorney General. It is evidently a close translation of Elizabeth's Charters, with only a few alterations, more consonant to modern ideas and customs; still many of the terms and provisions must have appeared more appropriate and necessary, especially as written in Latin, in the days of Queen Bess, than they do now in plain English, in the times of William IV. We have thus reduced to two sheets this chronological sketch of the eight charters, exhibiting the origin and progress of the Corporation; when necessary there are ample materials for enlarging it. January, 1834. Liddell and Son, Printers, Bodmin. THE BODMIN REGISTER. NO. 10. March, 1834. THE 208 PARISHES. ANY one desirous of obtaining an accurate knowledge of the County, or Parliamentary Districts, or Archdeaconry of Cornwall, should study the geography and history of the 208 Parishes arranged in the two following tables. They comprise the whole of the three general Districts specified in the scheme printed at page 121. A concise account of each of these 208 Parishes is given in Lysons' Parochial History of Devon and Cornwall; and the best Maps to be consulted are the Ordnance Survey, and Martyn's large Map of Cornwall. No reliance can be placed on Greenwood's Actual Survey, which is a bad copy of Martyn and the Ordnance. The scale of these three Maps is the same, viz. one inch to the Mile. An Index to Martyn's is published, with Outlines of the Parishes, and other local divisions. N The number and order of the Parishes having been at length carefully examined and settled, a concise statistical Survey of the County should be printed annually, in a pocket volume. It need not exceed 300 pages 12mo. or the price of 5s. and should be prepared by residents, by the Clergy, or some competent person in each parish or district. Large and expensive books and maps published by strangers to the County are of little practical use, it being almost impossible that such works should be accurate. They are too often gross impositions on the public, embodying and perpetuating false information and palpable errors. The Statistical Survey of Scotland, prepared forty years ago, chiefly by the Clergy, is now re-publishing with great improvements, by Blackwood. Some of the Irish Counties have also been recently surveyed statistically, by resident authors. It is high time the example should be followed in England; and no County affords greater facilities for a Statistical Survey than Cornwall. The Alphabetical Table I. should be prefixed, and the account of each parish written in the order observed in Table II. These two Tables are recommended to the use of the Members of the different Societies in Cornwall, and to Miners, Geologists, and others, who may require a systematic and geographical arrangement of the whole, or any part of the Country west of the Tamar. The Cornwall Clergy Fund Report |