Withiel does not present any thing in addition to what has been said
of it.
Mr. Lysons does not give any information of the least interest
respecting property in the parish. The larger portion belongs to the
Vyvyans of Trelowarren, as well as the advowson. A younger brother of
that family, the Rev. Vyal Vyvyan, is the present incumbent, and this
gentlemen has greatly improved the house.
There is a monument in the church to the Reverend Richard Trewren, his
wife, and two daughters, one the widow of Mr. Ustick of Pendavey,
which place he sold to the Molesworths of Peranrow. Mr. Trewren was a
brother of the family of Tredreva in Constantine: he married Catherine
Davies, a sister of the Editor’s grandfather.
This parish measures 2,517 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2,109 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 72 5 0
Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 283 | 299 | 339 | 406
giving an increase of 43½ per cent. in 30 years.
Present Rector, the Rev. Vyell Francis Vyvyan, presented by his
brother Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart, in 1825. The net income of the
living returned in 1831 was 324_l._