MERTHER, a parish in the western division of
the hundred of POWDER, county of CORNWALL, 5 miles
(W.) from Tregony, containing 370 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, with the vicarage of St.
Probus, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, endowed with £600 royal bounty. The
church is, dedicated to St. Merther. Here is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. At Tresilian bridge,
in this parish, the treaty between Sir Ralph Hopton
and Sir Thomas Fairfax was concluded, in March 1646,
by which this county was surrendered to the parliament;
There are fairs at Tresilian bridge, on the second Monday
in February, and on the Monday before Whit-
Sunray, for cattle. St. Clement's creek, an inlet of the
river Mopus, between Falmouth and Truro, is navigable
here. Mr. William Hals, author of the Parochial
History of Cornwall, resided at Tresawson in this parish.