VEEP (ST.), a parish in the hundred of WEST,
county of CORNWALL, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Fowey,
containing 585 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £5. 0. 7., and in the
patronage of - Howell, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Cyricius. The navigable river Fowey bounds
the parish on the west, and the Leryn and Penpoll
creeks on the south. A fair for cattle and sheep is
held on the first Wednesday after June 16th. In this
parish are some remains of the chapel of the small,
priory of St. Cyric and St. Juliett, founded by one of
the Earls of Cornwall, as a cell to that of Montacute
in Somersetshire. The royalist cavalry were quartered
here a short time prior to the capitulation of the Earl,
of Essex, with his army, in 1644.