The church of this parish has the appearance of antiquity, and the
windows contain some remains of painted glass, exhibiting the arms of
several families heretofore connected with the parish, the De Ferrers
and the Eriseys. There is a marble monument to the Rev. T. Flavell, on
which he is stated to have received his education at Tiverton school,
and to have been a member of Trinity College, Oxford; and that in
addition to this vicarage he had the rectory of Ruan Major, and that
he held a prebend of Exeter Cathedral. He died in 1682.
At the foot of the inscription, which is in Latin, was the following:
Earth take mine earth, my sin let Satan have it,
The World my goods, my soul my God, who gave it;
For from these four, Earth, Satan, World, and God,
My flesh, my sin, my goods, my soul I had.
The tower was built by Mr. Robert Luddra, probably an inhabitant of
the parish, in 1500.
The great tithes do not form a part of the general funds belonging to
the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, but they are specially appropriated to
support the vicars choral of the Cathedral Church.
The manor of Pradannack is said by Mr. Lysons to have belonged to the
family of Serjeaux, and to have passed from them by a coheiress to the
De Veres, Earls of Oxford. It is now divided into Higher and Lower
Wortha and Wollas, one belonging to Mrs. Agar, heir of the Robartes
family, the other to the Vyvyans of Trelowarren, and the manor of
Clahar to the family of Boscawen.
The parish feast is held on the nearest Sunday to November the 4th;
St. Malo’s day is November the 15th, just with an interval of eleven
days, but in the wrong direction for reconciling the difference by our
change of style. St. Melina is not noticed in the Roman calendar.
The Rev. T. L. Bluett died Vicar of Mullion in 1834.
This parish measures 4663 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2478 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 299 13 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 529 | 571 | 692 | 733
giving an increase of 38½ per cent. in 30 years.