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Excerpt from The Parochial History of Cornwall, Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin, Vol. 2 of 4: With Additions and Various Appendices The parish of Falmouth is a dismembered part of the old parish of Budock, taxed in the Domesday Roll 1087, and separated from it by virtue Of an Act of Parliament made 15th Charles II. Whereby that church is deprived of its rectory, the great and small tithes, as far as the boun daries of this new parish extends, on the humble petition of Sir Peter Killigrew, of Arwinike, Kut. Who by his own bounty, and the charitable benevolence he had begged of others (by leave of the King and Bishop of Exeter), had built on his own land a church and cemetery, at the south end of Falmouth town, whereof he was lord and high lord, for convenience of himself, his servants, and tenants, that were far off from Budock church. This church, so built. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.