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It is one solid stone, the Lack being about five feet bigh, and the 

 seat — wbicb is very comfortable to sit on — about two feet from 

 the ground. It looks like a work of art, rather than of nature, 

 and according to tradition it was here that the Arch-Druid was 

 wont to watch the rising sun. Tonkin and How, Lyonesse, 59. 



2. Griant's Chair, Trencrom Hill, St. Ives. "On the largest 

 of these earns are rock-basins, [one of which is] known as the 

 Griant's Chair." Matthews, St. Ives, p. 17. 



3. Griant's Chair, Grodolphin Hill. On the S.W. slope of 

 this hill is a very fine mass of rock, which has naturally 

 assumed the shajDe of a chair. The back gradually slants off 

 into a angle and surmounts the seat, which is much smoothed by 

 attrition from the fi^ecjuent use to which it has been put for 

 sitting purposes by the neighbouring inhabitants. The seat is 

 large enough to hold three persons, comfortably, and therefore 

 we may reasonably suppose that the giant from whom it takes 

 its name was three times as large as an ordinary human being. 

 And he must have been at least as large as this, if, as the legend 

 tells, he were able to hurl huge blocks of granite as far as 

 Prospidnick, (where they formed the staple of the adjoining 

 granite quarries, ) a distance of close upon four miles, as the crow 

 flies. He chose this rock as his chair to repose his wearied 

 limbs after his exertions. The chair faces the hill so that there 

 was no prospect to distract the giant's attention from sleep. 



4. Mr. Halliwell mentions another Griant's Chair on 

 Church Town Hill, Zennor. 



Ohuech Chairs. 



Misereres. These were seats of wood, moving on j)ivots, and 

 were often elaborately carved. They were intended as a 

 merciful provision for the rest of the occupant of the stall 

 during the recitation of the choir office. I have only heard of 

 six in the County, one at Bodmin, of which I can give no 

 particulars ; four at St. Burian ; and the other at St. Grermans. 



I take the account of the misereres at St. Burian from Mr. 

 Peter's valuable pajDer, published in the Cornish Magazine. 



St. Burya7i Misereres. One was no doubt intended for the 

 Dean, and the others for the prebendaries of Eespernell, 



