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 CONSTANTINE— CRANTOCK place. Among the lovely woods by the river- side is a small chapel, commemorating the narrow escape of Sir Richard Edgcumbe, whom Richard III. desired to arrest at a time when arrest would certainly have meant execution. The knight escaped in these woods, and the sight of his cap floating on the stream led his pursuers to think he had been drowned. Covernck Cove (and village), in the Lizard, is chiefly of interest geologically, and for memories of shipwreck. Crniitock (2^ m. W. of Newquay) is a peaceful old village with a church dedicated to St. Carantoc, the Irish Cairnech, who assisted St. Patrick in the compilation of the Senchus Mor. Possibly he was Irish; but the more general supposition is that he was either Welsh or Cornish, which in that day meant much the same thing. Strangely enough, there is another dedication to him near the Welsh Newquay, at Llangranog. He is said to have landed on the banks of the Gannel, and built his oratory probably near the site of the present holy well. The spot seems previously to have been known as Garrow or Carrow; hence it became Langarrow, and, finally, Crantock. A collegiate foundation was established here in Saxon times, mentioned in the Exeter Domes- day as Langorroc; and this establishment was restored or refounded in the reign of Edward III., with accommodation for a dean and nine prebendaries. The present church (chiefly Perp., with Dec. and E.E. portions) is being 89