MINSTER, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH,
county of CORNWALL, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Bossiney,
containing, with a part of the small sea-port of Boscastle,
425 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £22. 17. 11, and in the
patronage of Thomas John Phillips, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. Metherian: near it are some slight
remains of a priory of Black monks, founded by William
de Bottreaux, as a cell to the priory of Tywardreth.