PELYNT, a parish in WEST hundred, county of CORNWALL, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from West Looe, containing 750 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the Icing's books at £17. 18. 6., and in the patronage of J. Buller, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Nunn, contains a curious monument to the memory of Francis Buller, Esq., who died in 1615. At Trelawny, in this parish, there remains a portion of a castellated mansion, erected by Lord Bonville, in the fifteenth century.