NEWLYN, a parish in the hundred of PYDER,
county of CORNWALL, 2 miles (w.N.W.) from St.
Michael, containing, with part of the borough of St.
Michael, or Midshall, 1045 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £1(5. 13. 4., and
in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter. The Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of
worship here, and there is a small endowed school. Several
rapid streams run through the parish, in which are
some chalybeate springs, and a valuable lead mine. The
petty sessions for the division are held here, on the last
Monday in every month. At Cargol there was formerly
a palace belonging to the bishops of Exeter, to one of
whom a market and a fair were granted in 1312; fairs
are held on the first Tuesday in October and November
8th. In this parish is the fine old mansion of Trerice,
built in 1572, and once the seat of a branch of the
Arundel family.