Is bounded on the north by the Bristol Channel, on the east, by East Hundred and Stratton Hundred, on the south, by West Hundred, and on the west, by Trigg Hundred.

      ADVENT, or St. Ann, on the river Camel, 1½ miles S. from Camelford, contains 55 houses and 229 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to St. Andewin, is united with Lanteglos, and forms with it a consolidated rectory, in the patronage of the King, as Duke of Cornwall. The parish contains the hamlets of Trelegoe, Pencarow, and Tresinny, all of which are on the banks of the river Camel.

      ALTERNON, 8 miles W. from Launceston, and the same distance S.E. from Camelford, contains 164 houses and 885 in­habitants, including the hamlets of Five Lanes, Gunnow, Tredawl, Trethyn, Treveage, Treween, West Carne, and Trewint. At Five Lanes, in this parish, an annual fair for all sorts of cattle on the Monday week after June 24th, and on the first Tuesday in November. The church, dedicated to St. Nun, or Noneth, is a vicarage, value 181. 5s. Od., in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Exeter. It was given by William Earl of Mortaign to the prior and convent of Montainte, who, in the year 1236, made over their right in it to the church of Exeter. The church is said to have been the burial place of St. Noneth, mother of St. David, who, according to her legend, was born here: there is a well in the parish called St. Nun's well. The tower of this church is said to be the highest in the county, excepting that of Probus; it was much damaged by storms, in the year 1791 and 1810.
      Trelawney, in this parish, was the original seat of the ancient family of that name. In the reign of Henry V, a deer park was annexed to it, when it was the residence of Sir John Trelawney, a distinguished military character in that reign. His elder son left only daughters, amongst whom this estate of the family appears to have been divided. The manor of Treveage, also in the parish of Alternon, is the property of Francis Hearle Rodd, Esq. of Trebartha Hall, about four miles southward from the village, but in the parish of Northill. In the hall window of Trebartha, is the arms of the family, in painted glass, by Willement.
      Four miles northward of Alternon, is Dosmery Pool, the only inland lake in the county, of which Carew, who wrote in the reign of Elizabeth, gives the following curious account. "In the midst of the wild moors, far from any dwelling, or river, there lyeth a great standing water called Dosmery Pool, about a mile or better in compass, fed by no perceived spring, neither having any avoidance, until of late certain tinners brought an audit therefrom. The country people hold many strange conceits of this pool, as that it did ebb and flow; that it had a whirlpool in the midst thereof, and that a fagot once thrown thereinto was taken up at Fowey haven, six miles distant. Wherefore to try what truth rested in these re­ports, some gentlemen, dwelling not far off, caused a boat and nets to be carried thither over land. Fish they caught none, save a few eels upon hooks; the pool proved no where past a fathom and a half deep, and for a great way very shallow. Touching the opinion of ebbing and flowing, it should seem to be grounded partly upon the increase which the rain floods bought thereinto from the bordering hills, and the decrease occasioned by the next drowth, and partly for that the winds do drive the waves to and fro upon those sandy banks, and thus the miracle of Dosmery Pool deceased." It had been commemorated by the following verse:—

Dosmery Pool amid the moors,
On top stands of a hill,
More than a mile about, no streams
It empt, or any fill.

      CAMELFORD, on the river Camel or Alan, and near its source, 15 miles W. from Launceston, 55 from Exeter, and 228 from London, the borough contains 229 houses and 1256 inhabitants, including the whole parish of Lanteglos, in which it is situated, and the hamlets of Fenterwanson, Forda, Helston, Trefrew, Tregoodwell, Tremagenna, Trevia, and Trewalder. Camelford is a town of considerable antiquity: it was made a free borough by Richard King of the Romans, who granted the burgesses a weekly market and a fair, at the festival of St. Swithin, which was confirmed by King Henry III. in 1259. The market is held on Friday for corn and provisions, and there are now four annual fairs for cattle, on the Friday after the 10th March, 20th May, and 17th and 18th June. The corporation consists of a mayor and eight burgesses or aldermen, incorporated by charter in 1673. The town hall was rebuilt in 1806, at the expense of the Duke of Bedford. The seal of the borough, bears the representation of a camel passing through a ford of water, which is the arms of the town; it is inscribed Sigill. vill. de. Camillford. Lanteglos is distant about a mile and a half south-west from Camelford. The church, dedicated to St. Lanty, is a rectory, value 34l. 11s. 3d. in the patronage of the crown. A deer park at Lanteglos, which was disparked by King Henry VIII., is held by lease under the Duchy of Cornwall. Fentonwoon, in this parish, was formerly the seat of the family of Wallis. At St. Siths, or Michaelstow beacon, are vestiges of an ancient encampment, and the neighbourhood is supposed to have been the site of a battle between King Arthur and his nephew Mordred, in which the latter was killed on the spot, and Arthur received his mortal wound. Camelford is also supposed to have been the Gavelford, or Gafulford, of the Saxon chronicle, where King Egbert had a battle with the Britons in the year 823.

      ST. CLETHER, 6 miles W. from Launceston, and about the same distance E. from Camelford, contains 30 houses and 175 in-habitants. It is a vicarage, value 6l. 11s. 10d. Basil, in this parish, was formerly a seat of the Trevelyan family.

      DAVIDSTOW, 4 miles N.E. from Camelford, contains 58 houses and 363 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Trevyvyan and Tremeal. The church, dedicated to St. David, is a vicarage, value 8l. in the patronage of the King, as Duke of Cornwall. The advowson was annexed to the duchy in 1540, when several estates were settled on it in lieu of the honor of Wallingford. Touchborough is a large tumulus, about a mile and a half northward from the church, two smaller ones are near it.

      FORRABURY, on the sea coast, 5 miles N. from Camelford, contains 68 houses and 223 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to St. Simphorian, is a rectory, value 4l. 12s. 8d. The town has been of importance, but the fall of Tintagel and Botreaux castles has been the overthrow of this and many others upon the coast. Part of Boscastle, the chief seat of the baronial family of Botreaux, is in this parish, which is within the manor of Worthyvale, and partly in that of Minster. The borough of Bossiney is three miles eastward from Forrabury.

      ST. GENNYS, on the Bristol Channel, 9 miles N. from Camelford, and about the same distance S.W. from Stratton, contains 130 houses and 680 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Craketton, or Crackhampton, Penkuke, and Roskear. It is a vicarage, value 8l., in the patronage of the Earl of St. Germans. In the chancel of the church is a monument of Captain William Braddon, of Treworgye, an officer on the parliamentary side during the civil war, who died in the year 1694, his epitaph begins,

In war and peace I bore command,
Both gown and sword I wore.

which has occasioned a belief that he was vicar of the parish of St. Gennys. He was member of parliament in 1658, and probably as a magistrate celebrated marriages, which perhaps gave rise to the tradition. The manor of St. Gennys, which formerly belonged to the family of Treise, descended by an heiress to Sir John Morshead, Bart., of Trenant, who, in 1798, was lord warden of the Stannaries, and colonel of the Devon and Cornwall miners. The estate, at his death, came to his son Sir Frederick Treise Mors­head, Bart. Treveeg, in this parish, was formerly a seat of the Yeo family. Cambeak is a promontory, on the coast, south from St. Gennys, and northward is Bude Bay.

      ST. JULIOT, or St. Jilt, 6 miles N. from Camelford, and 14 miles W. from Launceston, contains 48 houses and 263 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Beeney and Tresparrett. It is a curacy, the rectory formerly belonged to the abbey of Tavistock. Hennett, in this parish, was formerly a seat of the Rawle family.

      LESNEWTH, a village which gives name to this hundred, is 5 miles N.E. from Camelford, and 14 miles N.W. from Launceston, and contains 20 houses and 123 inhabitants, including the hamlet of Treworrell. The church, dedicated to St. Knet, is a rectory, value 8l, in the patronage of E. J. Glynn, Esq. who is lord of the manor. Grylls, in this parish, formerly a seat of the Betenson family, is now a farm house.

      MICHAELSTOW, on an eminence, 4 miles S. from Camelford, and 9 miles N. from Bodmin, contains 36 houses and 216" in­habitants, including the hamlet of Treveighan. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a rectory, value 10l. 13s. 9d., in the patronage of the crown. Tregone, in this parish, was formerly a seat of the Mayow family, and Trevenin, a seat of the Lowers.

      On Michaelstow beacon, whence is a very extensive view, is a castle mount, with considerable earth works, which it is supposed was the site of Helsbury Castle, mentioned by William of Wor­cester, in his Itinerary of Cornwall, temp. Edw. IV. It is situated just without Helsbury park, which is disparked, and was after­wards a rabbit warren; this park is held under the Duchy of Cornwall, by the Duke of Bedford.

      MINSTER, on the Bristol Channel, 5 miles N. from Camelford, 3 miles N.E. from Bossiney, and 18 miles from Padstow, contains 107 houses and 425 inhabitants, including the borough of Boscastle. It derives its name from a priory of black monks, founded at Talcarne, as it was formerly called, by William de Botreaux, as a cell to Tywardreth, and which was subject to the abbey of St. Sergiers, at Angiers. There are still some remains of this priory near the church, which stands at a distance from any habitation. It is dedicated to St. Mather, and is a rectory, value 22l. 17s. 11d., in the chancel are several monuments of the families of Hender, Cotton, and Phillipps.
      In the year 1204, William de Botreaux had a grant of a market at Talcarne, which was renewed in 1312, the market to be held at his manor of Castle Botterell, and a fair at the festival of St. James; the grant was again confirmed in 1398. There is a weekly market on Saturday at Boscastle for butchers' meat and vegetables, and two annual fairs, one for lambs on the 5th August, and the other for ewes on the 22d November. There is a pier at Boscastle where small vessels come with coals, &c.
      The honor of Botreaux Castle, now called Boscastle, and the manor of Worthyvale, were ancient possessions of the baronial family of Botterell, or Botreaux, which was settled here as early as ithe reign of Henry II. William Lord Botreaux, the last of this family, was killed at the battle of St. Albans, in 1462, leaving an only daughter, married to Sir Robert Hungerford; the estate afterwards passed, with the heiress of Hungerford, to the noble family of Hastings. The principal residence of this ancient family was at Botreaux Castle, of which the mount only now re­mains. It was probably taken down before Leland's time. The manor house was occasionally inhabited by Sir John Cotton, who died in 1703, but is in a state of dilapidation. The barton of Worthyvale having been separated from the manor, was some time a hunting seat of Lord Falmouth, but is now a farm house.

      OTTERHAM, 6 miles N.E. from Camelford, and 13 miles N.W. from Launceston, contains 37 houses and 212 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to St. Denis, is a rectory, value 6l. 14s. 2d. Small Hill, in this parish, formerly a seat of the family of French, is a farm, belonging to Charles Chichester, Esq.

      POUNDSTOCK, on the Bristol Channel, 6 miles S.W. from Stratton, and 13 miles N.W. from Launceston, contains 121 houses and 744 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Tregoll, Coppetthorn, Penhalt, Treskinnick Cross, Trewint, &c. There is an annual fair on the Monday before Ascension Day. The church, dedicated to St. Neot, is a vicarage, value 13l. 6s. 8d. In the chancel are monuments of Trebarfoot, of Trebarfoot, in this parish, which became extinct about the year 1630. Calmady, the original seat of the family of that name, is the property of their representative, Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, Esq., of Leawood in Devonshire. Woolston one of the seats of the Grenville family, in the reign of Elizabeth, descended through a coheiress to Lord Gower. It was purchased in 1794, by Lord de Dunstanville, but the old mansion has been pulled down and a farm house erected on the site.

      TINTAGELL, on the bleak and rugged coast of the Bristol Channel, 5 miles N.W. from Camelford, contains 160 houses and 877 inhabitants, including the borough of Bossiney, and the hamlets of Trebarwith, Tregatta, Trenow, Trevenna, and Trewarmet. Tintagell was made a free borough by Richard Earl of Cornwall, and as well as Trevenna, about a mile distant from each other, forms part of the borough of Bossiney, which formerly sent two members to parliament. Although not incorporated, it is governed by a mayor. At Trevenna is an annual fair for horned cattle on the first Monday after 19th October, and at Tingatell is a school supported by the mayor and free burgesses. The church, dedicated to St. Simphorian is a vicarage, value 81. 11s. 3d., in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Windsor. It was formerly appropriated to the abbey of Fonteverard, in Normandy, but having passed in the same manner as Leighton Busard, in Bed­fordshire, was given, by King Edward IV., to the collegiate chapel of St. George at Windsor. Tintagell Castle is situated partly on the extremity of a bold rock of slate, on the coast, and partly on a rocky island, with which it was formerly connected by a draw­bridge, and is of great antiquity. This castle is said to have been the birth-place of King Arthur, but his history is so blended with the marvellous, that his very existence has been doubted, and the circumstances connected with his birth are certainly not amongst those parts of the relation which are most entitled to credit. It was, however, said by Lord Bacon, that there was truth enough in his story to make him famous besides that which was fabulous.
      In the year 1245, Richard Earl of Cornwall, brother to King Henry III., was accused of having afforded an asylum in Tintagell Castle, to his nephew David, Prince of Wales, and in the reign of Edward III. the castle and manor of Tintagell were annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall. So little remains of the walls of this ancient and formerly impregnable castle, that the date of its erection cannot even be conjectured from the style of the architecture: it is certain that the castle was in a dilapidated state in 1337, in which year a survey was made. There was then no governor, but the priest who officiated in the chapel of the castle, had the custody of it, without fee. It is described as a castle sufficiently walled, in which were two chambers beyond the two gates, in a decayed state. A chamber, with a small kitchen for the constable, in good repair; a stable for eight horses, decayed; and a cellar and bakehouse, ruinous. The timber of the great hall had been taken down by command of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, because the hall was ruinous, and the walls of no value.
      In the reign of Richard II., Tintagell Castle was made a state prison, and in 1385, John Northampton, lord mayor of London, was committed to this castle. Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of War­wick, was also a prisoner here in 1397- "The ruins of Tintagell Castle," says the Rev. R. Warner, "claim dominion over unqualified desolation; over one wide and wild scene of troubled ocean, barren country, and horrid rocks: its situation and aspect quite chilled the tourist," and in continuation of his description, he in­troduces the less sublime remark, " that to look at it was enough to give one the tooth ache."

      TRENEGLOS, 8 miles N.W. from Launceston, and the same distance N.E. from Camelford, contains 37 houses and 238 in­habitants, including the hamlets of Cayse and Treglith. The church, dedicated to St. Werbergh, is a vicarage, united with Warbston, value 9l. 9s. 7d., in the patronage of the crown. The manor of Downeckny, anciently Donnegny, formerly belonged to the families of Dinham and Cardinham, by descent from Richard, steward of the household, at the time of the Domesday survey. The greater part of it was inherited by William Braddon, Esq., of Treglith. Roose, the ancient seat of the Morth family, de­scended to John Morth Woolcombe, Esq., of Ashbury, Devon.

      TREVALGA, on the Bristol Channel, 5 miles N. from Camelford, contains 26 houses and 133 inhabitants. It is a rectory, value 7l. 6s., in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Exeter.

      WARBSTOW, 8 miles N.W. from Launceston, and the same distance N.E. from Camelford, contains 76 houses and 439 in­habitants, including the hamlets of Downniney, Trelask, and Trengune. It is a curacy to Treneglos. In this parish is Warbstow Burrows, a remarkable entrenchment, having a double vallum and two entrances, the inner area is 1200 feet by 1075 feet: in the middle of this area is an oblong tumulus, called the giant's grave.