CORNWALL Newport, which returned two members inde- pendently of the two returned by Launceston. The church, dating from 1259, ^^^ some E.E. portions, but is mainly Perp. The hill on which it stands affords a fine view of castle- crowned Launceston — a town really so beautiful and interesting that it need not regret its lack of industrial life. But this lack is emphasised by the decline of population shown by the latest census (in 1891, 4345; in 1901, 4053). Launceston was formerly the county - town ; prisoners even from Land's End had to travel hither for trial. Assizes were later held both here and at Bodmin ; now at Bodmin only. Lawhitton (2 m. S.E. of Launceston) is a manor belonging to the diocese of Exeter, as it formerly belonged to Crediton. The restored church, dedicated to St. Michael, has a pulpit dated 1665, bearing the Bennet arms. St. Lawrence (i m. N.W. of Bodmin) has traces of an old leper hospital, said to date from the thirteenth century. It was incorpor- ated by Elizabeth, and consisted of seven houses, with a chapel, a mill, and a confinement cell. Its last inmate died a century since, and the endowment now goes to the Truro County Infirmary. The parish is still famous for its cattle fairs. Lelant (3 m. E. of St. Ives) is the mother parish both of St. Ives and Towednack. After the Conquest the manor went to the Bottreaux. The full name of the parish is St. Uny Lelant, and this last word is supposed to be a cor- 156
