This parish measures 2,719 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815: The parish 3469 0 0 East Looe 921 0 0 ――――― ―― ―― £4390 0 0 ――――― ―― ―― Poor Rate in 1831: The parish 231 19 0 East Looe 325 5 0 ――――― ―― ―― £557 4 0
Population, in 1801, in 1811, in 1821, in 1831, The parish 344 343 411 455 East Looe 467 608 770 865 ―――― ―――― ―――― ―――― 811 951 1181 1320 giving an increase on the parish of 32 per cent.⎫ East Looe 42 per cent.⎬ In 30 years. both 39 per cent.⎭
This parish entirely resembles St. Germans, to which it is contiguous.
[3] One of the most eminent chemists and natural philosophers of his age.
St. Martin’s Rectory is situate in the hundred of Kerryer, hath upon the north and east Helford Channel and Constenton, south Manaccan and St. Kevorn, west Mawgan: under what jurisdiction this parish was taxed in the Domesday Book in 1087 I know not. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, into the value of Cornish Benefices in Cornwall, 1294, Ecclesia de Sancti Martini in decanatude Kerryer, was valued at £4. 6_s._ 8_d._ At or before the time of Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, it was consolidated into its superior or mother church St. Mawgan, and therefore not mentioned by itself. I take it to have been founded and endowed by the Prior of St. Michael’s Mount, who formerly was patron of both, now Trevillian; the incumbent Trewinard; and the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, £105. 15_s._
Tremayne, that is the town of stone, or the stone town, in this parish, is the dwelling of an old family of gentlemen, surnamed Thoms or Tomys, Anglice Thomas; so called after the Cornish-British manner, after the font name of some of their ancestors. Of which family was Robert Thomy, who held by the tenure of knight’s service half a knight’s fee at Bliston, in Trigshire, now Blissland, temp. Henry IV. (Mr. Carew’s Survey of Cornwall, page 42). Also one little knight’s fee at Carnanton, in Pedyr, idem liber, page 43. The present posssessor is ―――― Thoms, and giveth for his arms, in a field Argent, a chevron between three talbots Sable. From this family, as I am informed, by younger brothers sprang, from their dwellings at Carveth and Carnsew in Mabe, and Roscrow in Gluvias, three families, who were transnominated after the names of those places, from Thoms to Carveth, and Roscrow, and Carnsew, who in testimony thereof ever gave their arms as aforesaid as Thoms did.