This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...age of eighty, appears to be one in thirty-two; but by the London bills of mortality, only one in forty. In a parish in Shropshire, it is said, as an extraordinary instance, one in twenty-four had attained that age: in several parishes in Cumberland, it is found to agree with that of Veryan. In Chester (a very healthy town) one in forty dies annually, which corresponds with the estimate of Falmouth; as does, also, several parishes in Suffolk. hazardous employment of a part of its population; together with the influx of strangers. The following extraordinary instances of longevity occur in the registers:--Joan Davis, who died in 1779, aged 101; Catherine Freeman, a Scotch woman, who died in 1793, aged 117; and John Zouster, an invalided soldier, who died 1812, aged 105. It is worthy of remark, that out of twenty-three persons, who had exceeded ninety years of age, in a period of thirty years, seventeen were females. PLACES OF WORSHIP, ©jjurch Of Falmouth was built in 1662, as a chapel to the parish of Budock, (to which Falmouth originally belonged); but became parochial in 1664, when this was made a distinct parish. It was consecrated in the following year, by Dr. Seth Ward, Bishop of Exeter, and " called by the name of Charles I. King and martyr." As in the records of the Church; by which it appears that the parish ought to have borne that name. The expense of building was defrayed by contributions from the King, Duke of York, and other distinguished persons, and the ground was granted by Sir Peter Killigrew. It hasa undergone many alterations at different times. In 1684, a chancel was built at the east end, at the expense of the Rev. Walter Quarme, then rector. In 1686, a gallery was built at the west end, at the cost of Sir Peter...
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