260 NOTES ON THE CHUKCH OF ST. IVES. 



" Pilgrimage of Grace " of 1549. According to tradition, the 

 provost carried out tlie execution \Yitli tlie same brutal levity that 

 is attributed to him in the legends of other places, first dining 

 with his victim, and then hanging him in the street before the 

 door. In the south aisle was, until 1898, a bench-end sur- 

 mounted by a very spirited representation of an angel kneeling 

 at a low desk on Avhich he supports a book. This bench-end 

 was formerly in the chancel, and has again very properly been 

 placed there. One of the western standards on the south side 

 side has a spirited representation of a jester. The pulpit is 

 made up of carved panels from the old benches. 



There is a pre-reformation monument in the church, or, 

 rather, the fragments of one, formerly on the chancel floor, but 

 now mounted on a slate against the southern wall of the 

 Trenwith aisle. The tigure of Otho Trenwyth is missing. St. 

 Michael has been placed in a position that is ridiculous, in view 

 of the fact that the lady is addressing him in prayer, and who- 

 ever " restored " the brass mistook the nimbus for the outline of 

 his head, thereby producing a most extravagant grotesque. ^^ On 

 a scroll at the top we read " See Micaell ora pro nobis," and at 

 the foot is the inscrijjtion " Hie iacet Oto Trevnwyth', Generosus, 

 q'. obijt die dnica px' ante festu purilicacois bte marie virginis. 

 A.° regni Eeg' Edwardi. iiijti. scdo q' fuit vir benign' deo et 

 mundo ac bene disposit' Et diia Agnes Censors ei' quorum 

 aiabz ppiciet' ds," that is '' Here lie Otho Trenwyth, Gentleman, 

 who died on the Sunday next preceding the Eeast of the 

 Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the second year of 

 the reign of King Edward IV. [1462], and who was a man 

 acceptable to God and to the world, and well disposed, And 

 Dame Agnes his wife, on whose souls God have mercy." It is 

 probable that Otho Trenwyth was the builder of this chapel. ^- 



On the western wall of this aisle is a slate tablet in memory 

 of "Four hopefull sonns a granclsire and a maid" as the very 



It The figure of St. Michael is ii^ inches in height ; that of Dame Trenwith i6i 

 inches. St. Michael's head as restored measures 2\ inches across. 



12 For an account of the manor of Trenwith (in Domesday, Trenwit and of the 

 family of that name .see Matthews' History of St. Ives, London, I'g?. In tSgS many 

 of the carved benches formerly in the Trenwith Chapel were removed to make room 

 for a side altar, then in course of erection, and these benches have now been placed 

 in the nave. 



