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and the vicar ; but I have been unable to trace it. The College 

 had to wait ten years before they enjoyed the fruits, and doubt- 

 less, in their condition of poverty, chafed a bit at this long 

 waiting for dead men's shoes. However, their time came, and on 

 the 8th of October, 1365, John Carbons was appointed the first 

 vicar of this parish. 



Buller, in his interesting little history of this parish (p. 41) 

 states that the Manor of Lafi'ouda belonged to Grlasney before 

 the appropriation of the benefice. This may likely have been so, 

 but Mr. Buller gives no authority for it, and I have been unable 

 to find any. The name Lafrouda is said, — I am out of my depth 

 and express no opinion, — to be formed of Laf {i e. Lan ?) a church, 

 rood, a cross, and dha, holy, and this mixture of languages to 

 mean " The Church of the Holy Cross." It may mean this ; but, 

 assuming the etymology to be even approximately correct, it may 

 also mean the Church Cross, or Market place, referring to the 

 cross which, until quite recent times, stood in the centre of the 

 village. 



I do not purpose repeating to you the names of the rectors 

 and vicars of this parish. There is an almost complete list of 

 them preserved in the church, as I could wish was the case in 

 every church. The bare list of names and dates, even if nothing 

 is known of the men themselves, is an eloquent tribute to the 

 continuity of the church, and where the names of the patrons are 

 also given, we have a valuable record of the dealings with the 

 benefice from age to age. I do not know that any of the vicars 

 have been very eminent, except Dr. Borlase, whose works, though 

 much of them is obsolete, — and further knowledge has shown him 

 to be more often wrong than right, — were yet amongst the very 

 earliest attempts at being correct. James Millett is remembered 

 solely because he had three wives, and is said to have worn a ring 

 engraved with the legend "If I survive I will have five." 

 He was evidently a vigorous old gentleman. He was vicar of 

 this parish for 54 years, and an undated Terrier is signed proudly 

 " James Millett, Vicar, vEtatis suse, 80." Nankivel is only re- 

 membered as the friend of two greater men, Dr. Walcot and 

 John Opie. John Buller wrote a history of the parish, and is 

 also known to lawyers by a case in the Law Reports, from which 



