FRESCO IN LUDGVAN CHURCH. Bl 
in dressing her locks ; under her are some fish, and, nearer to the 
Eastern corner of the painting, a man of a very dwarfish propor- 
tion drawing out a fish by a line; opposite to this, at the Western 
corner is a Monk in his Cowle, fishing lines in his hands; signify-" 
ing perhaps the Regulars’ incroachments on the Parochial Ministers, 
the Monks of the Mount taking away the tythe fish from Ludgvan. 
On St. Christopher’s shoulder is the Bambino or little Christ, a 
world in his hand, and on his head a party coloured kind of Tur- 
bant. Ona label round his head ‘Dux geres mentem, quia tu 
fers cuncta regentem.’ On the Eastern part of the arch of the 
door is a dog (of the greyhound kind) with a fish in his mouth, 
intimating that the Priests should not be deprived of their tythe 
fish by the fraud of their parishioners, least, like this dog, (pursu- 
ing his proper prey the hare), by having a fish in his mouth may 
be incapable of obtaining it, forasmuch as that fraud in one small 
point may prevent and deprive us of a greater and more natural 
blessing which we might otherwise expect. Above the door is a 
small Parochial Chapel or Chantry, and several such there were 
formerly in this parish ; at Trewoll one; at Colurrian (called St. 
Thomas’s chapel) one ; and at Ludgvan-Lez a third ; if there were 
no more; in the door one of the Clergy, his garment white and 
seeming a surplice on which a scarfe; he holds in his hand a sacred 
wand or stick, at the end of which is suspended the holy cista or 
box in which the Host was carried on solemn occasions from the 
Altar to particular parts of the parish. Over the cista is a bird to 
represent the Holy Ghost as a Dove hovering over the sacrifice of 
the Host ; above the Priest’s head flies a label with the following 
verse in the same text letters as before ‘Miror res minima 
carnis sit Cleris ademta,’ intimating the Priest’s surprise at the 
parishioners defrauding him of his provisional tithes and sustenance 
when from him they had so much more valuable food, even that of 
the Host. At the Western end rises a Tree or Stalk of flowers, 
(mostly of the shape of sun-flowers). On the largest flower perches 
an owl in peaceable gravity, at which some birds of prey fly in a 
hostile manner, as if to pick out his eyes. At the foot of this 
flowering shrub is a fox retiring in great haste with a stolen 
goose on his back. 
Below this is the stem of another tree or shrub of like flower 
as before. The fox is here brought to condign punishment; he 
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