St Michael's Mount

Coordinates: 50°06′58″N 5°28′38″W / 50.1160°N 5.4772°W / 50.1160; -5.4772

St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, (Carrek Los yn Cos), meaning "hoar rock in woodland", also known colloquially by locals as simply the Mount is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. The population of this parish in 2011 was 35. It is managed by the National Trust, and the castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since approximately 1650. The earliest buildings, on the summit, date to the 12th century, the harbour is 15th century and the village and summit buildings were rebuilt from 1860 to 1900, to give the island its current form.

Its Cornish language name — literally, "the grey rock in a wood" — may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded, indicating a description of the Mount set in woodland. Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe, but radiocarbon dating established the submerging of the hazel wood at about 1700 BC.

Saint Michael (disambiguation)

Saint Michael is originally Michael the archangel, the Biblical heavenly being. Saint Michael or Saint Michaels may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

Settlements

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (Cary, North Carolina)

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church & School is a Roman Catholic church and lower school located in Cary, North Carolina in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh.

Church

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church is one of the largest churches within the diocese. Rev. Douglas Reed is the current parish priest.

The church's mission statement is: "Saint Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church is a worshipping servant community dedicated to stewardship, social justice, and ministering to our members and to the greater community in the image given to us by Jesus. This ministry is centered around the sacraments and our acts of faith, hope, and charity."

School

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School hosts grades preK through eight. The school feeds into Cardinal Gibbons Catholic High School. The school is a member of the Triangle Catholic School Athletic Conference. St. Michael the Archangel was recently awarded the Blue Ribbon Program Award for outstanding student achievement.

Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)

Mitchell, or St Michael (sometimes also called St Michael's Borough or Michaelborough) was a rotten borough consisting of the town (or village) of Mitchell, Cornwall. From the first Parliament of Edward VI, in 1547, it elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.

History

The borough encompassed parts of two parishes, Newlyn East and St Enoder. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start.

The franchise in Mitchell was a matter of controversy in the 17th century, but was settled by a House of Commons resolution on 20 March 1700 which stated "That the right of election of members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of St Michael's, in the County of Cornwall, is in the portreeves, and lords of the manor, who are capable of being portreeves, and the inhabitants of the said borough paying scot and lot": this gave the vote to most of the male householders.

The borough was often not in the complete control of a single proprietor, the voters being swayed between those of the lords of the manor from whom they expected to receive most benefit in return. Namier quotes a memorandum on the state of the Cornish boroughs from Lord Edgcumbe to Prime Minister Newcastle in 1760, describing the Mitchell voters as "in general low, indigent people, [who] will join such of the Under Lords from whom they have reason to expect most money and favours. Admiral Boscawen..., by supplying some of the voters with money and conferring favours on others, seems to be adding very considerably to the strength of his interest."