There does not appear to be any thing demanding particular notice in
this parish. The family of Erisey were seated here from remote
antiquity, on a manor and barton of the same name. Mr. Lysons states
that the mansion house was rebuilt about the year 1620; and that the
family became extinct in 1722, when their estates passed with an
heiress to Col. John West, and since by purchase to the Boscawens of
Tregothnan.
The advowson of the living belonged to the late Rev. William Robinson
of Nanceloe.
If the translation from Homer is by Mr. Hals himself, the lines prove
him to be a very moderate poet; if they were from a work then before
the public, we may congratulate ourselves that Pope has introduced the
greatest of Bards into English society, arrayed in a more appropriate
garb. Ιλιαδος, z. 440.
Τηνδ’ αυτε προσεειπε μεγας κορυθαιολος Ἑκτωρ.
Iliad, Book the 6th, l. 570.
Yet come it will, the day decreed by Fates,――
How my heart trembles, while my tongue relates!――
The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend,
And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind,
My mother’s death, the ruin of my kind,
Not Priam’s hoary hairs defil’d with gore,
Not all my brothers gasping on the shore;
As thine, Andromache!
This parish measures 2,325 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 845 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 140 12 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 142 | 167 | 187 | 162
giving an increase of 14 per cent. in 30 years, but with a
diminution in the last ten years.
Present Rector, the Rev. H. T. Coulson, presented by P. V. Robinson,
esq. in 1828.