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THE
PAROCHIAL HISTORY
OF
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET.
THE
PAROCHIAL HISTORY
OF
CORNWALL,
FOUNDED ON THE MANUSCRIPT HISTORIES
OF
MR. HALS AND MR. TONKIN;
WITH ADDITIONS AND VARIOUS APPENDICES,
BY
SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY,
F.A.S. F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A. &c. &c.
AND D.C.L. BY DIPLOMA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SON;
AND SOLD BY
J. LIDDELL, BODMIN; J. LAKE, FALMOUTH; O. MATTHEWS, HELSTON;MESSRS. BRAY AND ROWE, LAUNCESTON; T. VIGURS, PENZANCE;MRS. HEARD, TRURO; W. H. ROBERTS, EXETER; J. B. ROWE, PLYMOUTH;AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN CORNWALL AND DEVON.
1838.
HISTORY
OF THE
PARISHES OF CORNWALL.
HALS.
Is situate in the hundred of Kerryer, and hath upon thenorth Budock; east, the haven or harbour of Falmouth;south, the Black Rock and Pendennis Castle; west, Budock,and the British Channel. For the name, it is takenfrom the Vale river’s mouth, which here empties itself intothe British Ocean. And the river itself takes its namefrom its original fountain in Roach, under Haynes-burrow,called Pen-ta-Vale, Fenton, or Venton; that is to say, thehead or chief, good or consecrated, spring or well of water,or river Valley, from thence called the Vale river. This place,in Cornish, is called Val-genow, or Fal-genne; in Saxon,Val-mune; in English, Vale-mouth, synonymous therewith.
This harbour of Falmouth, as mariners tell us, is in allrespects the largest and safest haven for ships that thisIsland of Britain affordeth. Its mouth or entrance fromthe British Ocean, between the Castles of St. Mawes andPendennis, situate in St. Anthony and Falmouth parishes,is about a mile and a half distant, the centre or middlethereof above a league, from the said mouth or entranceup the Vale river, by the Rock Island aforesaid, to CarikeRoad, King’s Road, and Turner’s Wear, south-eastabout two leagues from thence, still on the Vale river, a2navigable arm or channel of the sai