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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1813. Not illustrated. Excerpt:... TRURO CHURCH, CORNWALL. This Church is a spacious fabric of that elegant kind of architecture which flourished in England about the reign of Henry VII.: it consists of two aisles of equal size, and a smaller one, and has a modern steeple of very unharmonious proportions, which does not correspond with the body of the Church. In the windows are several fragments of painted glass; and in one of them on the south side is the date 1518, the year when the Church was finished. Truro, although of no very remote antiquity, may now be denominated the metropolis of Cornwall. Its central situation with respect to the commerce and chief products of the county, its improved and improving state, the regularity and handsome appearance of its buildings, its increased population, and the similarity of its local regulations to those of our principal cities, equally contribute to justify its title to pre-eminence. It is situated in a vale, at the conflux of the two small rivers Kerwyn and St. Allen, which direct their streams on each side of the town, and at the bottom unite with a branch of Falmouth harbour; at every spring tide they form a fine lake or body of water two miles in length, TRURO CHURCH. THE TOMB OF JENKIN WYRHALE, IN • NEWLAND CHURCHYARD, and of sufficient depth to be navigable for vessels of 100 tons burthen. This advantage of situation has doubtless been a principal cause of its rapid progress. The government of Truro is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twenty capital burgesses. The right of returning members to parliament is in these twenty-five persons only, though the number of inhabitants is upwards of 5000. On the election of a mayor, the town mace, by the custom of the borough, must be delivered to the lord of the manor, who retains it...