Thomas Willyams, a Captain in the Navy (brother of Mr. John Willyams, who married Miss Bridgman Noye,) married ―――― Fox, of Deal; they left a son John Willyams, also a Captain in the Navy, who married Anne Goodyere, and their son, the Reverend Cooper Willyams, Rector of Kingston, near Canterbury, is known to the world by various publications:
A Campaign in the West Indies, with the reduction of the Island of Martinique, &c.
A Voyage up the Mediterranean, with description of the Battle of the Nile; and some others.
Mr. Cooper Willyams died July the 17th, 1816, leaving two sons and two daughters.
The late Mr. John Oliver Willyams related to me an anecdote, illustrative of the contingencies which are incident to human life, and of the concatenation between public and private events.
His grandfather, Mr. John Willyams, had undertaken a journey to Oxford in the year 1685, but was stopped at Exeter by the Duke of Monmouth’s invasion; he returned in company with a gentleman of St. Columb, and remained there a few days, where at some public exhibition he met with Miss Bridgman Noye, who soon afterwards became his wife.
Mr. Hals devotes some pages to the virulent abuse of Colonel Humphrey Noye, against whom it is obvious that he must have entertained a personal animosity; but the Editor, having omitted various similar effusions, hopes that he shall not be accused of any partial favour towards his own ancestors, by omitting this also, which does not carry with it the semblance of truth.
Mawgan in Pider measures 6078 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 4016 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 360 6 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 543 | 622 | 580[6] | 745 giving an increase of 37 per cent. in 30 years. Present Rector, the Rev. Philip Carlyon, instituted on his own presentation in 1806. Net income in 1831, 585_l._
This parish is situated entirely within the calcareous series, and its rocks are the same as those of the adjoining parishes, St. Colomb Major and St. Evall.
The parish feast is celebrated on the nearest Sunday to St. James’s Day, July the 25th.
[5] Probably a Bishop in Partibus Infidelium.
St. Mellyn Rectory is situate in the hundred of East, and hath upon the north Kellaton, east St. Dominick, south Pillaton, west Quethiock.