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and fixed upright in the ground, so as to read from above down- 

 wards, in accordance with the rule in regard to such monuments. — 

 The present Church, the Tower excepted, was built about 1828, the 

 body of the older edifice having been almost entirely taken down ; 

 but this stone was probably reinstated in its corner. — Where it first 

 stood cannot be ascertained. — There is a tongue of land forming the 

 S.W. portion of Cuby, separated by a brook from Yeryan, which is 

 still called "the Sanctuary," or locally "Centuary" or "Gentry." 

 — This may have been the more sacred spot in very early days ; and 

 it must not be forgotten that Tregoney was, like otheir towns at the 

 head of our tidal rivers, a place of considerable relative importance 

 in those times, — a fit centre for missionary work. 



THE CUBERT STONE. 



The description of this monument by Mr. Longueville Jones, 

 already referred to, is as follows : — 



" In the western side of the tower of St. Cubert's Church, is em- 

 " bedded this stone, which was found when some repairs and recon- 

 " structions were carried on there. The stone is a very hard and 

 " unusually fine-grained granite ; and the inscription seems to have 

 " suffered no injury whatever. It reads off easily : 



CON ETOCI 



FI/LI TEGERNO 



MALI 



" This inscription is not cut so carefully as the one just described," 

 (that at Gulval); "and yet, from the nature of the stone and the 

 "great smoothness of its surface, no manual difficulty ought to have 

 "been experienced by the person who incised the characters. The 

 "irregularities, therefore, mark a time of declining art, and possibly 

 " of trouble ; and no doubt the inscription was the work of hands 

 "found on the spot where it was first erected. The careless N and 

 " T in the first line shew this, and the general want of parallelism 

 "is another indication. — The circumstance of the | being placed 

 "horizontally at the end of the first and third lines, points to an analogy 



