*ST. GERMAN'S, (Cornwall) 180 cm. 220 mm. from London, bet. Saltash and Leskard, on the little r. Liver abounding with oysters. Though once a Bp's. see, removed hither from Bodmin, and from hence to Kirton, and thence to Exeter, it is now a decayed village; yet it has, ever since the 5th of Q. Eliz. sent 2 members to Pt. has a Mt. though a small one, on F. and Fairs May 24 and Aug. 1. The chief magistrate, who is called the mayor, or portreeve, is bailiff also of the Bor. and may make any house in it the prison of the person whom he arrests. He is chosen, about Michaelmas, at the court-leet of the Ld. of the manor, by a jury impanelled for the purpose. The ruins of the episcopal palace are yet visible at a farm-house at Cuttenbeck, 1 m. and half from the T. and in the Ch. which is large and handsome, there are still an episcopal chair (which is for the Bp. of Exeter's suffragan) and the stalls of the prebends. The p. which is the largest in Cornwall, is 20 m. in com. including no less than 17 villages; and it is supposed to have more gentlemen's seats and Lps. than any other p. in England. Here was formerly a priory at a place fronting the s. now called Port-Elliot, from the family of the Elliots, who are Lds. of the manor, which they bought of the Champernoons; to whom it came accidentally at the Diss. One of the late Elliots endowed a public sc. here, and repaired the sessions-house. The rectory of its Ch. is held by lease, for 21 years, of the D. and C. of Windsor. The members of Pt. are chose by all the housholders who have lived a year within the Bor. which contains about 60 houses near the Ch. the rest of the p. being without the Bor. The T. stands on a rising ground, in the form of an amphitheatre; but the houses are meanly built and irregular, as is the rock which is their basis.