LEZANT, a parish in the northern division of
EAST hundred, county of CORNWALL, 4 miles (S.byE.)
from Launceston, containing 853 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, rated, in the king's books at
£32, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of
the Bishop of Exeter. The church is'dedicated to St.
Breock. At Trecarrel in this parish are the remains of
an ancient chapel.