CORNISH CHAIRS. 389 



At Holy Yale, St. Mary's, Scilly, in tlie house at the end of 

 tlie row is an old-fashioned arm-chair which belonged to 

 Charles I, when he was at the Star Castle, in 1645. Our present 

 King, when Prince of Wales, visited the house and sat in the 

 chair, in 1865. "Lyonesse," p. 66. 



A set of old fashioned high-backed chairs — older than the 

 time of Bp. Trelawney, to whom probably they belonged — was 

 purchased at a sale at Trelown, by Thomas Bond, of East Looe. 

 One is at Enys, others are at Trelissick. 



At Cothele, two chairs have brass-plates affixed to them with 

 the following inscriptions: — "On Tuesday, August 25th, 1789, 

 His Majesty King Greorge the 3d honoured this old mansion 

 with his presence, and sate in this chair, while he condescended 

 to take a breakfast with the Earl and Countess of Mount 

 Edgcumbe. Their Eoyal Highnesses, Princess Royal, Princess 

 Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth, also honoured them at the 

 same time with their presence." 



"On Tuesday, August 25th, 1789, Her Majesty Queen 

 Charlotte honoured this old mansion with her presence and sate in 

 this chair, while she condescended to take a breakfast with the 

 Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe." Lake: s«5 Calstock. 



Saints' Chairs. 

 Of this class of chairs I am acquainted with but three in the 

 British Isles, two of which are in Cornwall ; the third, St. 

 Maughold's, is in the Isle of Man, but of this I can procure no 

 particulars except those given in Butler's Lives of the Saints 

 (Dublin, 1833). I have also given under this class the chair at 

 St. Michael's Mount, though in accuracy it ought to occupy a 

 place of its own. 



St. Germans Chair. In the north-eastern part of St. Germo's 

 churchyard stands a weather-beaten, time-worn structure. It is 

 about ten feet high by six feet and a half long approximately 

 by about six feet wide. The exterior is of somewhat crumbling 

 masonry, surmounted by a dilapidated slate roof. The front is 

 divided into two parts by a central pillar four feet one in height 

 and having a girth beneath the plain moulded capital of 34 inches. 

 This granite pillar seems to be in its correct perpendicular 

 position, but the two exterior ones are made of odd portions of 



