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upon Devon, b did formerly afford fome Tin, but now there is very 
little Tin eaft of St. Auftel c . From St. Auftel vvcffward to Kenwyn 
Gwenap, Stythien, Wendron, Breag, on the South, and to St. 
Agnes Redruth d , Illogan, Camborn, Gwinear, in a ffraight line 
through Lannant, Senor, and Morvah, to the parifti of St. Juft on 
the North, the Tin and Copper Grounds maintain a breadth of 
about feven miles at a medium. 
By the defcent of the River Tamar, the lands of Morwinftow 
where this river rifes, fhould be reckoned the higheft hills in 
this County ; but the length of a river’s courfe is no infallible cri- 
terion of the height of it s fource : Caradon Hill, near Lifkerd, 
may be reckoned amongft the higheft grounds, being found c to be 
u 1 a b° ve t ^ ie ^ eve ^ fea. Routor and Brown willy muft 
be ftill higher, the former being the firft land difcovered at fea by 
imps bearing lor England, if I am rightly informed. 
By the Domefday Book (in the Church Library at Exeter) which in 
all probability was the copy of the Original Survey of the Weftern 
Counties, whence the great Domefday Book in the Exchequer was 
partly compofed, the Hundreds are thus named : i Conarton • 
containing 33 Hides f . 2. Tibefterna, aliffs Tibefta, now a Dutchy 
Manor, to which Granpont and moft of the parifti of Creed, 
and ^ other dependencies belong, containing 61 Hides and a half. 
3* Winnenton, alias Winneton, alias forfttan Winnianton, formerly 
a confiderable Manor of the Arundels of Lanhern, giving name to 
the parifh now call’d Gunwallo s , containing 36 Hides and a half. 
4. Stratton, in which there were 83 Elides and three Virgates of 
and . 5. Fauiton, confifting of 43 Hides and a half 6. Rialton, 
confifting of 69 Hides and fix Farthings 1 of land. The 7th Hun- 
dred before the Conqueft was that of Pauton k , containing 44 
down^ 1 & 16 P ai ' l ^ ies Linkinhorn, on Hengften- 
n I, Th ' s T name is written differently, St. Au- 
5 “®’ (Lehnd, vol. iii. pag. 20.) quail Holy 
Altar, as , f the parifh had it’s name from fome 
remarkable Altar thereof great refort ; asthepa- 
A1* 1 ot ;^ ltari y in had that name from a famous 
Altar of St. Nunne. [ n vo ). vii . of the fame 
Itinerary, pag. nr, ’tis call’d St. Auftols, with 
this marginal note [St. Auftol, erat Ilermital 
It is alfo call’d St. Auftol in the Bilhop’s Regiftei 
at Exeter ; and it is imagined by a learned gentle- 
man, (Rev. Dr. Milles, Chaunter of Exeter) that 
the proper way of writing this name is St. Auffil 
a corruption of St. Auxiiius an Irifti Bifhop. 
d Reciius Ryddruith. 
r *^ e ^ ev - Mr. Haydon’s portable Barom r . 
Conarton was an ancient Manor formerly be- 
S" gm tf T t0 thc Crown of England, and in time of 
wen. UI. convey’d by letters patent (yet to be feen 
1 a Fu , a S ’ .'f Eis MS. of Cornwall) at Lanhern, 
together with the Baylywic of the Hundred of 
renwith, to Simon Pincerna (or Butler) Lord of 
Lanhern, in lieu of the Lordfhip and Manor of St. 
James atWeftmmfter. In the name of Pincerna 
it continued till Edward III. when one of the 
Heireffes of that family, (i. e. of the Pincerna’s) 
was married to Arundel of Trembleth, direct an- 
ceftor ot the laft oir John Arundel of Lanhern. 
g Norden, pag. 46. 
h Eight Virgae made a Hide; the Virga or Vir- 
gata of land was an uncertain and very different 
meafure in different places, it fometimes confifted 
of 24 Acres, fometimes of 30, 40, and fometimes 
only of 20, 15, or even but 4 Acres. Spelman. 
Gloff in voce virgata. 
1 A Farthing Land was like the other Meafures 
of our anceftors, various ; fometimes confifting of 
ten Acres, fometimes of 30. “ Divifiones nuf- 
“ quam requae nec partium quantitas ufquam 
“ certa.” Spclm. Gloff. p. 320. 
k Rialton and Pauton, though they loft the 
honour of giving name to Hundreds, retain’d even 
to Queen Elizabeth’s time the privilege of fending 
Bayliffs to attend the publick fervices as the 
Hundreds did. Carew. p. 86. 
Hides, 
