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No. 4. 



Wadebridge. 



Query : — We have been asked, — Is there any likelihood that 

 Leland related what really had been done, when he mentioned that 

 one told him that " the fundation of certain of th' arches was first 

 sette on so quick-sandy ground that Lovebone [that is Lovebond, 

 the Vicar of Egloshayle] almost despairid to performe the bridg 

 ontyl such tyme as he layed pakkes of woole for fundation."? 



Reply : — Some light may be thrown on this legend by com- 

 paring it with similar traditions prevalent elsewhere. London 

 bridge, for instance, has its wool-pack story. 



Fearnside & Harral, in their " History of London ' ' (illustrated 

 by Wood), tell us (at page 64) that the ancient wooden bridge 

 across the Thames was replaced by the stone structure known as 

 Old London Bridge, which was commenced in 11 76, rather to the 

 west of the former site The king, clergy, and laity subscribed 

 funds, and " a tax was imposed on wool towards defraying the 

 expenses, which occasioned the vulgar belief that London Bridge was 

 built on wool packs. 



Peter, minister of St. Mary Cole church, was the architect. 

 He did not live to complete it. A letter in the tower of London 

 (written in the reign of King John) recommends the learned and 

 worthy clerk Isambert as a proper person to finish it. 



By a curious coincidence the ancient cleric Peter, of St. Mary 

 Cole Abbey church, has been of late years succeeded in his office 

 by the son of a successor of Lovebond, the Vicar of Egloshayle, 

 Peter and Lovebond both being connected with the wool-pack- 

 bridge legends. 



W. IAGO. 



No. 5. 

 Lewanick Church. 



The lamentable fire at Lewanick church — so complete in its 

 intensity of destruction, that not a morsel of charcoal from the 

 oak benches, waggon-roof, or other woodwork remained — has 

 served to establish- — contrary to all previous supposition — the 

 superiority of granite, as a heat resisting material, over Polyphant- 



