96 THE CHURCH GOODS OF CORNWALL 



althougli in the returns for Devon they are continually enumer- 

 ated, still one is given in the detailed return for Stratton in 

 the Churchwardens' accounts, and at Bodmin in 1539 there were 

 five) ; a silver ball at Bodmin, and a clock at St. Austell, the 

 only one mentioned in the county, its dial cut in the stonework 

 of the west face of the tower still remaining.^ The bells were 

 numerous, the most usual number in the tower was 3, there 

 being 73 churches possessing that number, 35 had four, 5 had 

 two, and only one — St. Anthony — one bell ; at Breage the bells 

 are especially mentioned as "bells of great burden," and the tenor 

 there is still the largest bell in the county; many churches 

 also possessed sanctus, lich or burial bells, and sacring or sacra- 

 ment bells, the two latter being often hand-bells; at G-lasney 

 College the sanctus bell appears to have been called the 

 " Marrowmass bell."f The only mention of an organ occurs 

 with reference to this church, in a previous chantry certificate, 

 but there were others in the county, Bodmia possessing a pair 

 as well as Stratton. 



Turning now to the vestments, although the returns for 

 Kerrier are the only ones preserved, their number and variety at 

 once attract attention, and there appears no reason to doubt that 

 the other hundreds probably equalled, if not excelled, Kerrier in 

 the richness of this class of Church goods. 



We meet in these returns with copes and vestments of cloth of 

 "Botkyn" or cloth of gold, the richest of all materials; of 

 Lucca cloth of gold, of velvet, Morys velvet, damask, silk, 

 Venice silk, satin, satin of Bruges, and serge ; the greater 

 number of the copes being of velvet, and of the vestments of 

 velvet, silk, and satin : at Gluvias was " a cope and a hole sute 

 of vestments of cloth of Botkyn ; '' Breage possessed amongst 

 others a pair of vestments of blue velvet purple, broidered in 

 gold work, as well as a cope of Morys velvet of purple, broidered 

 in gold work ; Euan Minor had a pair of vestments of Venice 

 silk, and a cope of satin of Bruges ; and at Sithney were a pair 

 of vestments of red, and another of yellow satin, of Bruges, 



* There was a clock at Stratton made in 1513 at a cost of 10s., and one at 

 Bodmin, 

 f In Kent the sanctus bell was often called the " Morrowmass bell." 



