INSCRIBED STONES AND ANCIENT CROSSES OF DEVON. 159 
This cross is in the village of Holne, on the eastern border of 
Dartmoor, in the rectory of which Charles Kingsley was born. It 
stands in the churchyard, not far from a fine old yew-tree, on appa- 
rently a modern pedestal of three steps. It is a plain granite cross, 
with the edges chamfered. 
In the same churchyard is the following epitaph (now nearly 
obliterated) over the grave of a local worthy : 
" Here lies poor old Ned 
On his last mattrass bed. 
During life he was honest and free : 
He knew well the Chase,* 
But has now run his race ; 
And his name was Collins, 
D'ye see ? 
Died Dec r ., 1780, aged 77." 
* Holne Chase is in the valley below, in the same parish. 
