Bishop Tanner says of Tregony, in his Notitia Monastica, the advowson of the Priory of Tregony, as belonging to the Abbey of De Valle, in Normandy, is mentioned fin. div. com. 52 Hen. III. n. 18. Perhaps, instead of the priory, it should have been only the rectory or church of St. James, in Tregony; which, by means of some exchange, was made over by the abbot and convent of De Valle to the prior and convent of Merton, to whom it was appropriated, and a vicarage endowed by Peter Quiril, Bishop of Exeter.
Dugdale, edit. 1830, vol. vi. p. 1045, repeats from Tanner, and adds in a note, Tanner says: Vide inter munimenta Eccl. Cath. Exon. cartam Abbatis et Conventus de Valle, de resignatione hujus Prioratus. See also MS. Cole, British Museum, vol. XL. p. 59.
Cubye contains 2,186 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | £2,402 | £. | s. | d. | ||
Tregony | 841 | 3243 | 0 | 0 | ||
Poor Rate in 1831, the parish £187 15s | ||||||
the town 466 3 | 653 | 18 | 0 |
Population,— The parish, The Town, |
in 1801, 139 937 |
in 1811, 152 923 |
in 1821, 140 1035 |
in 1831, 155 1127 | |
1076 | 1075 | 1175 | 1282 |
giving an increase on the whole of 19 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Vaughan, presented by the Marquis of Cleveland in 1825.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
Cubye extends much further south than the parishes of Cornelly and Creed; but it is composed of similar kinds of rocks, principally abounding in beds of a lamellar micaceous rock, all belonging to the micaceous series.