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 CORNWALL Lady Edgcumbe being buried in a trance, and reviving just as the sexton was trying to steal her ring. She recovered, and lived for many years. The same story has done good service elsewhere. Malpas is a riverside village with ferry, 2 miles S.E. of Truro. The name is common in Wales, and there is a Malpas in Cheshire ; it looks like genuine French, but may possibly be a corruption of old Celtic. The Cornish pro- nounce it Mopus. Manaccan (about 8 m. E. of Helston) is a name that might seem to embody the Cornish word mai, which we find in Meneage and Manacles ; but some speak of a female saint named Manacca, possibly fictitious; and there was certainly a St. Manaccus. Mr. Baring- Gould thinks that both Manaccan and Meneage are a corruption of mynachau, " monks ". The place was formerly called Minster, proving the existence of a monastery. The church is very interesting; originally it was certainly cruci- form, but, as so often in Cornwall, one of the transepts has been replaced by an aisle. The surviving chancel and S. transept are E.E., the E. wall of transept having a single lancet and piscina ; there are also traces of a hagioscope. The S. doorway is very fine Norm. The Corn- ish historian Polwhele was at one time rector here. The district yields a mineral known as manaccanite, in which gold has sometimes been found. MiDiades are a perilous ridge of rocks lying 174