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THE NEIGHBOTJEHOOD OF BBOWN "WILLY. 



clog marks along the moor by Crowdy marsh, until they came to 

 the place where the body was found, lying in shallow water. The 

 ravens, strange to say, had left it untouched, but the cattle had 

 torn up the ground in a ring, round the turf on which the victim 

 had bled to death. Undermined by winter torrents this moDU- 

 ment has fallen down, and should be set up again.* 



On the summit of Hough Tor, there is a natural cleft in the 

 granite-pile called the ''Slaughter house," 

 where, it is said, "they" used to kill 

 anything from a man to a sheep. Here 

 also can be traced the outline of a small 

 chapel; the font, window, and a small 

 pillar — (fig. 6. ) of which were confiscated 

 by a farmer some thirty years ago, and 

 may now be seen at Trevelyan gate. The 

 font — (fig. 4.) is a small octagonal bowl, 

 having in addition to the usual hole in the 

 base for emptying, an overflow hole 

 between two buttresses, cut out of the 

 same block as the font itself. The window 

 — (fig. 5.) was never quite finished, and 

 appears not to have been glazed. The 

 door-head at Trevelyan gate also came 

 from this chapel, and was then plain on 

 the face ; but the farmer wishing to have 

 "a Prince of Wales' feathers" over his 

 door, engraved a fleur-de-lys thereupon. 

 He probably copied the design from a 

 doorhead at Temple church, or from a simi- 

 lar one now at Penpont (Altarnon), which 

 displays the Virgin's Symbol, and which 



Fig 6. — FOUR FEET ABOVE GROUND 



OTHER FACES OF CAP NOT 



WORKED. 



* This has since been done. I met Mr. Bastard, steward to Sir W. Onslow, 

 on the spot, and having with two friends guaranteed half the needful sum, com- 

 missioned Mr. Nankivell, a granite mason, to collect the remainder in St. Breward. 

 I instructed him to erect the monument on solid ground, a few yards from the 

 water, where it would not again be undermined, and to retrace the inscription . 

 and later on I visited the spot upon completion of the work. Mr. Bastard kindly- 

 volunteered to erect, at his own expense, the cross known as Mid-moor Post, 

 which was also fallen down. 



More recently, the Rev. R. H. Boles, Vicar of St. Breward, sent me the 



