Penzance. From the Lizard to the Lands-end; from thence to Breason Rock.

St. Ives. From Breason Rock to Carrock; due from thence to Godrevy Point, from thence to Perran Sands.

Padstow. From Perran Sands to the Haven's mouth of Padstow; from thence to Welcombe."

We are not certain from whom we obtained this document. The spelling of several places is incorrect. Welcombe is the first Parish in Devon, adjoining Moorwinstow. No notice is taken of Scilly. The Cornish Coast to the Eastward of Wrinkle belongs probably to the Port of Plymouth.

STANNARIES.

"Truro, December 13, 1821.

I should have replied to yours of the 24th ult. earlier, had I been enabled to give the information you wished respecting the divisions of the Stannaries. I have applied to Mr. Vivian, Mr. Jno. Edwards, Mr. Clutterbuck, and others; the following is the substance I have gleaned, and which I think may be relied on. The Stannaries of the County of Cornwall are as follows, viz. Blackmore, Foymore, Tywarnhayle, Penwith, and Kirrier.

Penwith and Kirrier comprehend all the Parishes in the Hundreds of those names.

The Stannary of Tywarnhayle comprises the Parishes

of St. Agnes, Perranzabuloe, St. Allen, Kenwyn, Kea, St. Mary's Truro, and Feock.

The River Fowey divides Blackmore from Foymore, from Lostwithiel to Fowey; but the line of division between those Stannaries, from Lostwithiel to the North Channel, I cannot learn. Mr Jno. Edwards, however, thinks that this information may be had from Mr. Chas. Rashleigh, as he was Steward of Blackmore for many years. All the Parishes to the West of Bodmin are in Blackmore; possibly the River Camel, either including or excluding Blisland, may be the division.

If this information should be of service to your plan 1 shall be glad, and if its convenient shall be obliged for the last Census of this County, with any hints or improvements, for my 2d Edition of the Cornwall Gazetteer, which I purpose publishing in 1822.

**

Your very obedient Servant.

F. Heard."

Mr. Heard died in 182. He was the Printer of the West Briton, and in 1817 published" The Cornwall Gazetteer," 1 vol. 12mo. drawn up by the Rev. George Woodley, now one of the resident Missionaries on the Scilly Islands, of which he has given us a History, printed in 1822, with an Appendix in 1833. Under the Stannary Act, passed in this last Session,

*This edition was never published. Ed.

Mr. Dampier, the new Vice Warden, held his first Court at Truro, on Thursday, the 3d of November, of which notice was published in the Cornwall Papers by Mr. Smith, his Secretary. It is expected also that certain Commissioners will be empowered to investigate the laws and Customs of the Stannaries. Should this be the case, we may hope to see an attempt made to ascertain the ancient limits and divisions. Such an enquiry it is likely will throw considerable light on the history and primitive state of the Duchy. It should be pursued by first describing minutely the existing customs and limits, and then by tracing upwards, and investigating the circumstances of the different changes which may have occurred.

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To return to our Review. In 1823 we published a Table of "The Population of the Archdeaconry and County of Cornwall in 1821, arranged on a new plan, shewing at one view the Ecclesiastical and Civil Divisions," which was illustrated, in 1825, by “ Outline or Skeleton Maps of the Diocese of Exeter. Part I. containing, in thirteen plates, (lithographed by the Printers of this Register,) the Archdeaconry and County of Cornwall, in which the Boundaries, of all the Deaneries, Hundreds, Subdivisions of Hundreds, and Parishes, are accurately described." These Maps were reduced by Bennett Pascoe, Land Surveyor, since deceased, from the Outline Map prepared by us in 1815, from Martyn's large Map. They exhibit, with the Table, a clear view of the Parochial and other

Divisions, and may by colouring be adapted to the recent or any future changes. The numbers of reference affixed to the Parishes in the table of 1823 have been continued in the Maps, in several tables, since printed in this Register, and separately; and also in the Reports of the Cornwall Clergy Fund, from the 25th of May, 1830: and they should not hastily be altered. Two Parishes have been added to our list since 1823, viz. St. Budeaux, No. 205a, and Tregony, No. 147a. The Cornish part of St. Budeaux, on which the principal works of the Saltash Steam Bridge are now situated, was at that time deemed part of the Parish of St. Stephens; and we were satisfied only in 1835 that Tregony is no part of the Vicarage of Cuby, but a Rectory distinct from it. See p. 264. The number of Parishes within the Archdeaconry and County is thus increased, from 207 to 209; and the latest correct list of them all we have given in the Cornwall Clergy Fund Report, printed on the 25th of May, 1836. An accurate Table of Parishes in any County or Diocese is rarely to be found, because it cannot well be obtained without a laborious investigation, and the method of proof afforded by an Outline Map of Parochial Boundaries, such as we have prepared for Cornwall. We have long since abandoned our intention of providing similar Maps and Tables for Devon; but shall be ready to lend our drawings and papers to any competent person in that County, disposed to pursue an undertaking of essential importance at the present day, when great changes are effected in every Session of Parliament,

founded on statistical data collected by strangers, and too often imperfect and inaccurate. In the Exeter Register, No. 1, (which will not be continued, but should be appended to this volume,) we, in April, 1831, printed a Tabular view of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Divisions of Devon and Cornwall, the result of a careful examination of every Parish throughout the Diocese It is a foundation on which others may build, and we hope successfully. Little however seems yet to have been attempted in Devon, for the arrangement of their own Statistics. Societies for the purpose, we hear, have been formed at Plymouth and Tavistock, but we are ignorant of their proceedings. The best information we have met with respecting Devon is contained in Trewman's Exeter Journal, which would be a valuable Book of Reference if extended and printed with larger type. We would also recommend to the notice of the Literary Societies in Devon and Cornwall, the Rev. Edward Stanley's "Heads for the arrangement of Local Information, in every department of Parochial and Rural Interest." The Pamphlet, consisting of 31 pp. octavo, was printed at Macclesfield, and published at 2s. in London, without the author's name, in 1830, by Hatchard and Rivingtons. The writer, we believe, attended the late Anniversary of the Polytechnic Society at Falmouth.

Family Register. On the 22d of February, 1827, we printed the annexed form of a Family Register. It was intended to be pasted as a single sheet in a