6 ALIEN PfilOEY OP ST. MICHAEL S MOUNT. 



which weighed an ounce. This mode of designation was common. 

 In some inventories both the weight and the pecuniary value were 

 attached to the articles. 



The Survey and Return are confined to the property of the 

 Priory in Cornwall. Tithes and other profits and property elsewhere 

 would be the subject of separate writs or commissions issued in 

 other counties. 



The church of Moresh is the old church now called St. Clement's, 

 in the Duchy manor' of Moresk fde MariscoJ, near Truro. In this 

 instance, as in some others in Cornwall, the church is designated by 

 the name of the Manor, and not of the Saint. 



8t. Hilary is the parish in which the Mount, as well as Mara- 

 zion, is situate. 



Treveraho, called also Trurabo, Tresabo, &c., and traceable in the 

 earliest charters of the Abbey of St. Michael, is in the parish of 

 St. Keverne. 



Penwijili must here include other property in that hundred. In 

 the grant of the possessions of the Priory to Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 

 in the time of James I., these are called lands in "Markesion," 

 "Marghasiou," and "Pensaunce." Probably, too, it included the 

 ancient manor of Treiwal, now called Truthal or Truthwall, one of the 

 earliest donations to the priory. All the names of manors and vills 

 seem, in the early records of the topography of the county, to be 

 undergoing a continual course of orthographic transmutation; — 

 especially Marazion, which is hardly spelt twice alike in two con- 

 secutive documents, — a serious obstacle to etymological researches. 

 Besides the various spellings above mentioned, I find that of Mer- 

 dresem, Marhagon, Marghasiew, Maryasion, &e. — When the Jew 

 found his way into the market-town is not clear. 



