*ST. IVES, (Cornwall) 229 cm. 278 mm. from London, a harbour in the Irish Channel, the true name of which is St. Ithes. Though it is almost choaked up with land, the coast from hence to the Land's-End being a long tract of sand-banks, so that the people have been more than once forced to remove, it has throve much by trading with pilchards and Cornish dates; and 20 or 30 sail of ships bel. to its harbour. It is governed by a mayor, 12 capital and 24 inferior burgesses, with a recorder, town-clerk, &c. Here is a handsome spacious Ch. Which is often buffeted by the waves of the sea, but the mother Ch. is at Unilalant. Here is a grammar-school that was founded by Charles I. of which the Bp. of Exeter, and the mayor and capital burgesses, are governors. Here are Mts. on W. and S. and Fairs on Good-Friday, April 16, May 10, July 20, Sept. 26, and Dec. 3. The bay, into which runs the r. Hayle, lies much exposed to the N. W. wind. The rocks hereabouts have some streaks of a metal like copper, of which in the neighbourhood there are mines. The manor was anciently in the Ferrers family, from whom it came by marriage to the Champernons, and from them in the same manner to Sir Robert Willoughby Ld. Brooke, by whose daughter it came in marriage to Mr. Paulet, ancestor of the present D. of Bolton, who held it in the R. of Cha. I. and in whose family it did very lately, if it does not still, continue. It is a custom of this manor, that whoever dies worth 10 l. or more, pays 10 s. to the vicar, and no more, but they that die worth less pay nothing. The list of its members of Pt. begins the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary. The land bet. this and Mountsbay is not above 4 m. over, and so situate, that from the hill neither of the two seas, viz. St. George's Channel and the British Channel, is above 3 m. and from hence, in a clear day, may be seen the Islands of Scilly, though above 30 m. off.