Duloe (St. Cuby)

DULOE (St. Cuby), a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of the county of Cornwall, 3¾ miles (N. N. W.) from West Looe; containing 937 inhabitants. This parish is bounded on the east by the Looe navigation. A few years since, a silver and lead mine was opened, and wrought for some time, but without adequate success. The living is a vicarage and a rectory consolidated, valued together in the king's books at £30. 15. 2½., and in the patronage of Balliol College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for £620, and the glebe comprises 53 acres. The church contains an altar-tomb with sculptured ornaments, upon which is a recumbent figure of an armed knight, with an inscription in memory of Sir John Colshull, who died in 1483.