Pelynt, vulgo Plynt, lies in the hundred of West, and joins to the
west with Lantegles and Lansallas, to the north with Lanreath, to the
east with Duloe and the river Loo, to the south with Tallant. In
Domesday Book this parish is called Pluwent.
This church is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book at £17. 18_s._
6_d._; the patronage in John Francis Buller, esq. the incumbent Mr.
Howell.
This church, in anno 1291, 20 Edward I. was valued, (Tax. Benef.) viz.
the rectory at £8, being then appropriated to the abbey of Wilton, in
Wiltshire; and the vicarage at 40_s._
The manor of Plunent, vulgo Plynt. By Domesday Book it appears that
this was one of the two hundred and eighty-eight manors given by
William the Conqueror to Robert Earl of Morton, when he made him Earl
of Cornwall. In the extent of Cornish acres, 12 Edward I. (Carew, fol.
49,) Plenynt is valued in nine.