50 ANTIQUITIES NEAR LISKEARD. 



some neighbouring pig bouse, but the incumbent 

 has given directions that none are to be taken away 

 for the future. St. Cleer's cross, as will be seen by 

 the engraving, is near the well ; it consists of one 

 piece of granite, which is morticed into a cylindrical 

 pedestal of the same sort of stone : until lately it 

 was almost wholly hidden by an accumulation of 

 rubbish around it ; this has been removed with relig- 

 ious care by the sexton of the church, who has made 

 use of it in constructing the walls of his house, which 

 is to be seen in the left of the cut. At present the 

 house consists of one story, but its owner informed 

 us that he had so contrived it as to be enabled to 

 remove the roof and add another story, at any time, 

 without much trouble ; and this he said he intended 

 to do, God willing, in a few years, when his family 

 had become so numerous as to require additional 

 apartments ; he also showed us a pen and ink sketch 

 of his proposed alteration, which has been faithfully 

 followed in the engraving. 



At Saint Cleer we thought.it would not be amiss 

 to procure a guide ; and, in endeavouring to do so, 

 stumbled upon the village schoolmaster, wIk) was 

 busied amongst a numerous and mixed flock of boys 

 and girls : this we felt assured was a most fortunate 

 accident, and would enable us to select the most 

 intelligent of his disciples for a companion. The 

 pedagogue, however, had the interest of his pupils 

 so much at heart, and considered their time of such 

 value, that neither love nor money could prevail upon 

 him to lend us one of them for the morning. Indeed 

 he seemed to look upon us with a vast deal of sus- 

 picion, and no doubt thought we were upon a 

 Burking expedition. When we had proceeded about 

 a hundred yards from the village, we met a young 

 fellow of about fourteen, covered with a white smock 

 frock, and decorated with an old clerical hat, which 

 was a prodigious deal too large for his head ; this he 

 informed us was a present which he had received 

 from " Master Jope, the parson ;" and, to prevent it 



