STEPHENS (ST.), a parish in the northern division
of the hundred of EAST, county of CORNWALL,
of a mile (N. N. W.) from Launceston, containing,
with the borough of Newport, 977 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, endowed with £200
private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary
grant. John Horwell, in 1717, bequeathed
funded property amounting to £1705. 15. 2., to be applied
for teaching poor children.