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 CORNWALL There are traces of a St. Juliet's Chapel on the Island of Tintagel. St. yust-in-Periwith (7 ni. W. of Penzance) pronounced St. Toost, is a large parish oi considerable population. The dedication has been debated ; some say Justus, companion of Augustine, which is certainl}- a mistake. Per- haps it is Jestyn, son of Geraint. There were also Welsh saints named Ust and Usteg ; one of these may possibly be responsible for the name. The church is fifteenth century, but there was an earlier building consecrated in 1336, and though it was supposed that nothing remained of this, restoration about thirty -six years since discovered a portion of the old sanctuary walls, including piscina and sedile. These had been simply plastered over, not rebuilt as was supposed, in 1834. The pier arches difter rather curiously in breadth, but the mouldings of the capitals are very fine. In the wall of the old sacrarium was found an inscribed stone, bearing the words Se/us hir jmrt, with a peculiar labarum on top of the stone ; there is also an ancient inscribed stone found near the ruins of St. Helen's Chapel on Cape Cornwall. Traces of frescoes may be seen on the N. wall. The St. Just Round or ampitheatre is one of those spots known in old Cornwall as pldn-an- guare, which literally means *' place of play," taking the word play in the sense of sport, as in the Cornish proverb, Guare tvheag yro guar-e tcag, " Fair play is good play ". But, as with 138