TONKIN.

I take the tutelar saint of this parish to be St. Kerantakers, a

disciple of St. Columb in the Hebrides; and the parish no doubt had

its name from him.

This parish is wholly impropriated to John Butler, Esq. of Morval, who

allows out of it a small stipend to the incumbent (at present Mr.

Warn), by which, together with the parishioners’ benevolence, he makes

a hard shift to live.

The collegiate church here was, as tradition saith, endowed by the

prior of Bodmin; but by which prior is unknown to me.

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