DOMINICK (ST.), a parish in the middle division
of the hundred of EAST, county of CORNWALL, 2 miles
(E. S. E) from Callington, containing 690 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£23. 11. 0., and in the patronage of Mrs. Bluett. William
Brent, in 1784, gave £ 5 per annum for teaching
poor children. On the glebe estate are vestiges of a
Roman intrenchment, called Berry, and the remains of
an old monastery at Baber. The navigable river Tamar
forms the eastern boundary of the parish. At Halton
was born, in 1579, .Francis Rous, a distinguished politician,
speaker of thS Little Parliament in the time of
Cromwell, and provost of Eton College.