Is bounded on the north by East Hundred and Lesnewth Hundred, on the east by the English Channel, on the south by Powder Hundred, and on the west by Trigg Hundred.

      BOCONNOC, 4 miles E. from Lostwithiel, and 8 miles S.W. from Liskeard, contains 49 houses and 253 inhabitants. It is a rectory, united with Broadvale, value 9l. 17s. 8d., in the patronage of Lady Grenville. Boconnoc House was the seat of Sir William Mohun, who died in 1587. His son, Sir Reginald Mohun, of Boconnoc, was created a baronet in 1612, and his grandson, John, was, in 1628, created Lord Mohun of Oakhampton. The estate was purchased, about the year 1718, by Thomas Pitt, governor of Fort St. George, whose great grandson, in 1784, was created Lord Camelford of Boconnoc. His son, the second Lord Camelford, died in 1804, when the estate passed to his sister and heiress Lady Grenville. The mansion, built by the Mohun family was remodelled by Governor Pitt, who also added a wing, and the first Lord Camelford added another wing to the old structure, increasing the frontage on the south to 110 feet. In the gallery are many family and other portraits, amongst them are Sir Reginald Mohun, by C. Jansen; the Duchess of Cleveland, by Lely; Governor Pitt, by Sir Godfrey Kneller; George Lord Lyttleton, Bishop Lyttleton, the first Earl Stanhope, by Kneller; and William Earl of Chatham. The park is richly wooded and stocked with deer. On an eminence, a short distance from the house, is an obelisk in memory of Sir Richard Lyttleton, 1771.

      BROADOAK, or Bradock, 5 miles N.E. from Lostwithiel, and 6 miles W. from Liskeard, contains 43 houses and 235 inhabitants. It is a rectory, consolidated with Boconnoc in 1742, and in the patronage of Lady Grenville.

      CARDINHAM, 4 miles W. from Bodmin, contains 124 houses and 775 inhabitants, including the hamlets of King's Wood, Old Cardinham, and Mill Pool. The church, dedicated to St. Mewbred, is a rectory, value 24l. 17s. 8d. In the chancel are some monuments of the family of Glynn. There are remains of an ancient chapel at St. Bellarmin's Torr, and another at Holywell, over an arched spring of very fine water. The honor of Cardinham was of very extensive jurisdiction, and of which several manors, both in distant parts of this county and of Devonshire were held. It belonged, in the reign of Richard I., to Robert Cardinham, who acquired the whole of the large estates of Robert Fitz William, in marriage with his heiress. The family name was occasionally written Dinham, at an early period, and in course of time the latter was constantly used. There are no remains of Cardinham Castle, the seat of the Dinhams, which was standing in the reign of Henry VII., but its site is still called the castle. The custom of free bench, similar to that of Enborne, in Berkshire, described in p. 8, prevailed in this manor.

      ST. CLEER, 2½ miles N.E. from Liskeard, contains 183 houses and 985 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Crowsnest, Tredennick, Tremellick, and Treman. It is a vicarage, value 19l. 6s. 8d., in the patronage of the crown. Treworgy is the seat of Mrs. Inch. The Hurlers are between St. Cleer and Linkinhorn, about two miles north-eastward from the church.

      DULOE, 3½ from Looe, contains 119 houses and 779 inhabitants, including Higher and Lower Tredinnick. The church, dedicated to St. Cuby, is a vicarage, value 8l. 11s., in the patronage of Baliol College, Oxford. In the chancel is a monument of Sir John Coleshill of Tremordet, the last of that family, who died in 1483, an altar tomb for John Kelliow, of Westnorth, temp. Edward IV., and some monuments of the families of Arundell of Tremordet and Coffin. Sir John Anstis Garter, king of arms, who died in 1743, and his son, John Anstis, Esq., who succeeded him in that office, and died in 1754, are both buried at Duloe, but there is no monument for either.

      ST. KEYNE, 2½ miles S. from Liskeard, contains 23 houses and 153 inhabitants. It is a rectory, value 5l. 18s. 6d. St. Keyne's Well is a spring of great repute.

      LANREATH, 5½ miles S.E. from Lostwithiel, contains 113 houses and 629 inhabitants. Here are annual cattle fairs on Whit Tuesday and 18th November, and one has been held three weeks after Shrove Tuesday. The church, dedicated to St. Marnarch, is a rectory, value 32l., in the patronage of John Buller, Esq., of Morval. In the chancel is a handsome monument for Charles Grylls, Esq., of Court, who died in 1611, and monuments for others of the family.

      LANSALLOES, 3 miles E. from Fowey, contains 165 houses and 880 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Tregavithick, Tregew, and Trenewan, and the western side of Polperro, which is partly in this parish, and partly in that of Talland. Polperro is situated on the sides of two steep rocky hills, which form a very narrow valley, and a small river, the boundary of the parish, runs between. At this port is a market, on Fridays, and a holiday fair on St. Peter's Day, old style, 10th July: the fair generally continues the greater part of a week, with much revelry. There is a harbour at Polperro for vessels of 150 tons burden, and a trade chiefly for coals and limestone; grain is occasionally exported. Here is also a pilchard fishery, and an extensive hook and line fishery, which supplies Bath, Plymouth, &c., with large quantities of fine whiting, pipers, dorys, plaice, turbot, &c. There are some remains of a chapel on the brow of the western hill above the town of Polperro.
      At Lansalloes is a holiday fair formerly held on Valentine's Day, now on Easter Tuesday. The church, dedicated to St. Alwys, is a rectory, value 18l.

      LANTEGLOS, by Fowey, is only separated from that town by the river, contains 142 houses and 973 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Bodinneck, Polruan, and Higher and Lower Trevick. The church, dedicated to St. Lanty, is a vicarage, value 14l. 7s. 1d., in the patronage of Lady Grenville. In the chancel are some monuments of the Mohun family, and a monument of Captain Benjamin Young, R.N., obiit 1649. St. Willow, the hermit and martyr, is said to have been beheaded at Lanteglos, near the place where Walter Hart, Bishop of Norwich, in 1445, who was the son of miller here, was born. On St. Saviour's hill are the remains of an ancient chapel.

      LISKEARD, 16 miles W. from Devonport, and 225 miles from London, contains 594 houses and 3519 inhabitants, including the five divisions of the parish, called the Borough, Constitution Lands, and North, South, and West Sides, and also the hamlet of Dobwalls, Lamellin, Trevelmond, and Trewerdland. Liskeard, one of the oldest towns in the county, is situated on rocky hills, and partly in a valley; here is a weekly market, on Saturday, which is amply supplied with all sorts of provisions, a great portion of which is purchased for the supply of the market at Devonport. There are also three great markets, on Shrove Monday, Monday after Palm Sunday, and on Monday after St. Nicholas' Day, and three large cattle fairs, on Holy Thursday, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and 2d October, St. Matthew's Day, old style. It is one of the four towns for the coinage of tin, but there has been no coinage held here of late years. Liskeard was made a free borough, in 1240, by Richard Earl of Cornwall, who bestowed on the burgesses the same privileges which he had already granted to Launceston and Helston. The date of the original charter is not known. Queen Elizabeth's charter of 1510, confirms the right of the mayor and burgesses, and provides, that the corporation shall consist of nine burgesses or common council, where one, for the time being, shall be yearly chosen mayor, and have power to choose a steward and recorder, and that the mayor and recorder be justices of the peace within the borough. The seal of the town bears a fleur de lis, on which are two birds, with an annulet over the head of each, and under the fleur de lis, on either side a prince's feather, with this inscription, "Sigillum Commune Burgi de Liskeard." The sessions for the Hundred of West are held here. Liskeard returns one member to parliament, according to the Reform Bill of 1832, who at present is Charles Buller, Esq., Jun. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, is a vicarage,value 18l. 13s. 11d. In the chancel is a monument for Joseph Wadham, who died in 1707, being the last of that family, whose ancestors were the founders of Wadham College, in Oxford. In the town was formerly a nunnery of poor Clares, founded and endowed by Richard Earl of Cornwall. A great part of the conventual building, known by the name of the Great Place, still remains, It is supposed that a castle, which formerly stood on the northern side of the town, was built by Richard Earl of Cornwall, who occasionally resided in it. A survey of the castle in 1337, calls it a manor house, and describes it as having a hall, chapel, and six chambers, then out of repair; with a park, in which were two hundred deer. It was disparked by King Henry VIII., and the site of the castle was sold by order of parliament, about the year 1650. There is a Grammar School in the town supported by the corporation.

      EAST LOOE, on the river of that name, 7½ miles S. from Liskeard, contains 128 houses and 770 inhabitants. It is within the parish of St. Martin's, which, together with the hamlet of Treloy, contains 64 houses and 411 inhabitants, exclusive of the borough. It is a rectory, value 36l. 2s. 3d., In the parish church are monuments of Philip Majolue, and of Walter Langdon of Keverell, the last of that family, who died in 1676. There is also a mural tablet for the Rev. Jonathan Toup, the learned annotator on Suedas and Theocritus. He was prebendary of Exeter, and thirty-four years rector of this parish, he died in 1785.
      The borough and market town of East Looe, or Port Looe, lies by the sea side, at the mouth of the river, and having a bridge of thirteen arches, which connects it with West Looe, 141 yards in length, built in the year 1400; upon this bridge was formerly a chapel, dedicated to St. Anne. There is a market, on Saturday, for provisions, but four fairs have been discontinued within memory. Here is a great pilchard fishery, and both pilchards and pilchard oil are exported; the imports are salt, limestone, &c. Opposite to Looe is the little island of St. George, frequented by numerous flocks of sea birds. The town of East Looe was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, in 1287; the corporation consists of a mayor and eight other burgesses, who have the power of choosing a recorder. The seal represents a one mast vessel, with three shields on the side, each charged with the arms of Bodrugan, three bendlets, and inscribed, "Si . Communitatis . de . Loo." In this town is a mathematical school, founded in 1716, by the will of John Speccot of Penhale.
      At Portlooe, opposite Looe Island, was a cell of Benedictine monks, called Lammana, subject to the abbey of Glastonbury; there are still some remains of the chapel.

      WEST LOOE, in the parish of Talland, is separated from East Looe, by a bridge before mentioned. The borough contains 103 houses and 539 inhabitants; it was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, in 1573, and the corporation consists of twelve burgesses, including the mayor. The seal of West Looe bears the figure of a man with a bow in his right hand, and an arrow in his left; with this inscription, "Portuan otherwyse called West Lo." The town formerly had a market on Wednesdays, now discontinued, and a fair for three days, which fair is now kept on the 6th May, for cattle, &c. There was formerly a chapel at West Looe, which has been converted into a Guildhall.
      Talland, in which parish West Looe is situated, lies about two miles nearly south-west from Looe Bridge, and contains 191 houses and 839 inhabitants, including the fishing town of Polperro. The church, dedicated to St. Tallan, is a vicarage, value 10l. Polvethan, a seat of John Buller, Esq., of Morval, was built about 1786, the beautifully ornamented grounds command a view of the Looe river.

      MORVAL, 5½ miles S.E. from Liskeard, and 2½ miles N. from Looe, contains 124 houses and 615 inhabitants, including the hamlets of Penearth and Sand Place. The church, dedicated to St. Wenn, is a vicarage, value 6l. 14s. 9d., in the patronage of the crown. In the chancel are monuments for the families of Mayow, Kendall, and Coode. Morval House is the seat of John Buller, Esq.

      ST. NEOT, on a branch of the river Fowey, 5 miles N.W. from Liskeard, and 8 miles E. from Bodmin, contains 187 houses and 1255 inhabitants, including the hamlet of Wenmouth Cross. Here are holiday fairs on Easter Monday and 5th November. It is a vicarage, value 9l. 1s. The present church was erected in 1480, and is a handsome building. Of the painted glass, with which it was formerly enriched, there are considerable remains, although in a mutilated state: many of the legends of these windows have also perished. One of the windows in the north aisle contains the legend of St. Neot, painted in twelve compartments. In the six windows of the south aisle are many portraits of benefactors, some of them in groups, with labels over their heads. One of the windows contains different subjects, from the history of St. George, with inscriptions under each: from a fragment of an inscription on one of the windows, it appears to have been painted at the expense of Katherine Borlase and others of her family. In the window of the eastern end of the south aisle, are fifteen small compartments, containing subjects from the old Testament, beginning with the creation, and ending with the death of Noah. The third window from the east, in the south aisle, was despoiled of its exquisite paintings, about the year 1770, by Samuel Thomas, then vicar, by whom it was presented to Dr. C. Lyttleton, Dean of Exeter, and afterwards Bishop of Carlisle: some arms of benefactors were also taken from three of the compartments. This act of spoliation is very properly recorded in several accounts of the church of this secluded village. The remains of St. Neot were deposited here at his death, in the year 877, and when the church was rebuilt, that part of the wall on the north side of the altar, in which his relics had been originally deposited, was not removed. The founders of the priory at Eynesbury in Huntingdonshire, having left an arm of the saint, when they stole the greater part of the treasure, in the year 974. Two pools, in the valley, which were near the cell of St. Neot, have afforded materials for some legendary tales; one of the pools appears to have been the hermit's fish pond, and the other probably his bath.
      Many very curious adventures, relative to St. Neot, have been detailed by early writers, as miraculous occurrences, but most of these, if divested of their legendary colouring, would probably be found not to be altogether fictitious, but to have had their origin in some simple fact. During the period of St. Neot's residence in Cornwall, as an anchoret, he is said to have been accustomed to repeat the whole Psalter, once each day, standing in a fountain of clear water near his hermitage. The celebrity of this beautiful spring has been perpetuated by tradition. It is at the foot of a hill, not far westward from the church, which was some years since clothed with forest trees. An overflowing rill issues from it, which fills a reservoir about four feet square; the spring was formerly surmounted by a stone canopy, the arch of which has now fallen, but the side walls still remain, and the aperture above is overgrown with briars, fern, and ivy. About seventy years since a venerable oak, bending forward from the bank above, spread its branches like a fan over the saint's well. This crystal pool is said to have been the scene of more than one strange event which, founded probably on some common occurrence, has been advanced by religious credulity to the dignity of a miracle.
      King Alfred is said to have often visited this village, in the neighbourhood of which St. Neot retired, and after the saint's return from Rome, to found his monastery at this spot, he was frequently visited by Alfred; on these occasions, it is stated, that St. Neot sharply rebuked the monarch for his unbridled ambition.
      All testimony conspires in the assertion that St. Neot lived and died at this village, then called Ham Stoke, having never quitted the spot, excepting for the purpose of visiting Rome. His decease occurred on the 31st July, A.D. 877, and he was buried with due honour in the church which he himself had built, upon the site of the more ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Guerir. After seven years had elapsed, a larger edifice was constructed, in 884, by the religious brethren of Neot Stoke, and the saint's body was removed to the northern side of the altar. About a century later, the remains of St. Neot were removed into Huntingdonshire.

      PELYNT, or Plynt, 8 miles S.W. from Liskeard, and 3 miles N.W. from Looe, contains 112 houses and 750 inhabitants. Here is an annual cattle fair on Midsummer-day. The church, dedicated to St. Nunn, is a vicarage, value 17l. 18s. 6d. The edifice contains several monuments of the Trelawney family, of William Achym, obiit 1589, and of the Buller family of Tregarrick.
      William Lord Bonville, the last of an ancient Devonshire family, and who was slain at the battle of St. Albans, in 1461, built a castellated mansion at Trelawney in this parish, part of which yet remains on the eastern side of the present house. Elizabeth Lady Harrington, upon the accession of Edward IV., had a dower assigned out of Lord Bonville's estate, and her only daughter, by Lord Bonville, brought Trelawney to Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset. On the attainder of his grandson, Henry Duke of Suffolk, it was seized by the crown. In the year 1600, Sir Jonathan Trelawney, M.P. for Cornwall, purchased this estate of the crown, and to make it his residence, he nearly rebuilt the house. He was father of Sir John Trelawney, who was created baronet in 1628. The chapel was built in 1701, and the house was again nearly rebuilt by Edward Trelawney, Esq., governor of Jamaica, after a fire, which happened about the middle of the last century. It is now the seat of the Rev. Sir Henry Trelawney, Bart. There are several family portraits in the mansion, amongst which, are two of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Bishop of Winchester, who was committed to the Tower in the reign of James II. The gatehouse of this seat was sometime the residence of General Trelawney, brother of the bishop.

      ST. PINNOCK, 4 miles S.W. from Liskeard, and 8 miles N.E. from Lostwithiel, contains 72 houses and 431 inhabitants, including the hamlet of Trevillis. It is a rectory, value 17l. 12s. 1d.

      ST. VEEP, 5 miles S.E. from Lostwithiel, and 8 miles N.E. from Fowey, contains 108 houses and 585 inhabitants, including the greater part of Lerrin. There is a fair at St. Veep on the Wednesday after 16th June, for horned cattle and sheep. The church, dedicated to St. Cyric, is a vicarage, value 5l. 0s. 7d. In the chancel are monuments of the family of Avent of Trevelyan. There is also in the church a tablet, recording a benefaction of William Bastard, of the Middle Temple, who gave Nethercombe to the poor of St. Veep and Duloe for ever.
      The priory of St. Cyric and St. Juliet, in this parish, on the northern side of St. Cyric Creek, was founded by William Earl of Mortaign and Cornwall, as a cell to the priory of Montacute in Somersetshire. The site of this priory, now called St. Cadix, is the residence of Mrs. Anne Wymond. There are some remains of the chapel. Trevelyan, in this parish, was the original seat of the ancient family of that name, who removed to Nettlescombe, Somersetshire, in the fifteenth century.

      WARLEGGON, 6 miles E. from Bodmin, and 8 miles N.W. from Liskeard, contains 50 houses and 296 inhabitants, including the hamlet of Bofindle. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a rectory, value 5l. 17s. 6d.

      ST. WINNOW, on the river Fowey, 2. miles S. from Lostwithiel, and about 4 miles N. from Fowey by water, and 6 miles by land, contains 153 houses and 906 inhabitants, including the several hamlets of Bofarnel, near Resprin Bridge; Bridgend, adjoining Lostwithiel; Lerrin, on the creek of that name; Polmenow, and Polshoah or Polscoe. It is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Nighton, value 5l., in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Exeter.
      Nighton is called a parish in an act of parliament of the reign of James I., but is not so described in records of more recent date. Resprin was formerly a separate parish, and the church, dedicated to St. Martin, belonged to the priory of Tywardreth.
      On Beacon Hill, in this parish, near Lostwithiel, a battery was constructed by King Charles' army, in 1644.
      The manor of Ethy, described as an honor, in Exeter Domesday, and by some writers called Tethy, was many years the seat of a branch of the Courtenays of Powderham; it was in 1814 the residence of Admiral Penrose.