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"To niakii)g- the Yane and plaisteriiig' tlie Chappie £1 . 1- . 2." 

 " 1746 To Emauuel Rigg's for joiners work on Chnreh and Island 

 Chappel 17/4." 



From the horoug'h accounts (one of the most interesting volumes 

 I know) I extract : 



''1592. Ite' i>aide to John Kalamey for mendinge 8t. Nicholas 

 Chappell Is. 4d.", and under 1689 we lind several entries 

 suggestive of its ha^'ing• been damaged Ly storm, one of the 

 items being " pd Try to save the lielling-stones blowne of, 6cl." 



Sf. Leo)iar(Ps Vhopcl is still preserved, though now only 

 serving as a shelter for men using the pier that it adjoins, and 

 with nothing in its appearance to suggest its history. All lovers 

 of history must feel grateful to Mr. Edward Hain who, in 1886, 

 caused it to be repaired and so preserved one of oiir links with the 

 past."** It is said that, during the middle ages, this chapel was 

 especially devoted to the use of the hshermen who maintained a 

 chaplain to say mass for them there, they paying him by an 

 offering of lish proportioned to the amount caught by them. I 

 do not know the authority for this statement. It was at any rate 

 kept in repair. In the borough accounts, under date 1592, we 

 lind, "paid two men one day about St. Lenards chapi^ell." There 

 are several references in these accounts to "the chapel," but 

 there is nothing as a rule to show which chapel is referred to. 

 The following, however, clearly refers to St. Leonard's, 1696, "pd 

 to amend the chapell on the Kay, 16s. lOd," In the church- 

 warden's accounts of 1792 is "For work about the church, 

 chaple, (S:c., £1.7.11." If this refers to St. Leonard's it was 

 probably the last work done on it, as, according to tradition, it 

 has not been used as a chapel for at least a hundred years. 



There was formerly a chapel on the rocks at Porthminster 

 Avhich, with the surrounding village, was burned down 1)y 

 French sailors in the time of Henry VI.'" The foundations are 

 said to have been traced as late as 1870, near the spot where 

 they found two stone coffins, each containing a leaden chalice. 



26 Cornwall is much indebted to this gentleman, who has performed many 

 useful acts such as this. It is to him we are indebted for the discovery and preser- 

 vation of the early borough accounts, wliich he has, moreover, done so much, by 

 lecturing and otherwise, to make accessible and interesting to others. 



27 Was it in consequence of injury done by the same visitors that tlie church 

 was at this time re-built .' 



