JACOBSTOW, a parish in the hundred of STRATTON,
county of CORNWALL, 8 miles (S. S. "W.) from
Stratton, containing 571 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of
Exeter, rated in the king's books at £ 19, and in the patronage
of the Earl of St, Germans. The church is dedicated
to St. James. Degory Wheare, the first Camden
Professor of History at Oxford, and author of a
Treatise on the Method of Studying History, was born
here in 1573.