MYLOR CHURCH; ITS CROSSES, FRESCOES, &C. 171 



■5 Nov: 1680." The arms on the shield are marshalled in 16 

 quarterings and 2 impalements. The first impalement is " a fess 

 wa\y between 2 suns," the second " On a fess dancett^e between 

 3 billets, each charged with a lion, as many bezants," for Rolle. 

 This last impalement is of interest, representing as it does, the 

 marriage* connexion, in 1672, of Francis Trefusis (the deceased 

 here commemorated) with Bridget Rolle ; in right of whom, some 

 generations later, the Barony of Clinton and Saye (on the death 

 of the Earl of Orford) passed to the Trefusis family. 



The walls of the North Transept were found to contain four 

 apertures (each about 6 inches square) carefully built with Norman 

 fragments. They may have been, as Mr. Murray the Vicar sug- 

 gests, holes for the use of lepers or others who might thereby be 

 enabled to view or hear Divine Service from without; two of 

 these openings have been preserved. 



The Church when completed will represent, in one harmonious 

 combination, the three fabrics — Norman, Decorated, and Perpen- 

 dicular, which by erection and transformation (as Mr. Murray has 

 pointed out) have successively occupied the same Church site, and 

 remained, as an interesting relic of the past, for so many centuries. 

 Time had reduced the venerable pile to a grey, sinking, tottering 

 mass, almost ready to fall. It was, as the Vicar aptly expressed 

 it, " the very picture of gradual but calm decay." Now, re-edified, 

 —under his own personal direction and supervision (after a careful 

 study of the whole) — ^the leading features of the various parts 

 become distinctly traceable. His aim has been to preserve and 

 reproduce, not to force the whole nor any part into a new mould. 

 Additions and improvements have been effected in exact accord- 

 ance with the style of their several positions. It is therefore a 

 subject for congratulation, that the restoration should have been 

 undertaken by one so well skilled as Mr. Murray is, in the requisite 

 architectural knowledge, and so fully possessing the faculty of 

 close observation combined with archseological taste. With regard 

 to the other ecclesiastical and parochial connexions of Mylor, a 

 few words must suffice, it being beyond the province of a sketch 

 like the present, to particularize the resident benefactors, of whom 

 there are several. 



* See Stockdale, Burke, &c. 



