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Veep, St. (St. Cyricius)

VEEP, ST. (St. Cyricius), a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Fowey; containing 710 inhabitants. This parish is bounded on the west by the navigable river Fowey, on the north by the Leryn, and on the south by Penpol creek. It is situated midway between Fowey and Lostwithiel, and comprises by computation 2394 acres; the soil is fertile, and the surface hilly. During the civil war, the royalist cavalry were quartered here previously to the capitulation of the Earl of Essex, in 1644. Fairs are held on the Wednesday before Midsummer-day, and the second Tuesday after Shrove-Tuesday. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 0. 7½., and in the gift of F. Howell, Esq.: the rectorial tithes have been commuted for £320, and the vicarial for £231. 10.; the glebe contains 16 acres, and the parsonage-house is in good repair. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. Some remains exist of a small priory founded by one of the earls of Cornwall as a cell to Montacute Priory, in Somerset, and dedicated to St. Cyric and St. Juliett. Walter de Exon, author of a history of Guy, Earl of Warwick, in the latter part of the 13th century, was an inmate of the priory, in which he was interred.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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