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 POUNDSTOCK— PRUSSIA COVE lecture, is the most beautiful as it is also the highest in the duchy. The height is 125 ft., and the style, of course, late Perp.; every foot of the granite facing is covered with rich ornament. In the lowest of the storeys are three canopied niches ; the second has window and clock dial ; the third a double window and panelling. Above rise eight clusters of foliated pinnacles, one at each angle, the others inter- mediate. This tower has wisely been left in its original gracefulness ; the rest of the church has been restored. The panels of the old rood-screen have been utilised in the present chancel-screen ; the lettering on these panels runs : " Jesus, hear us. Thy people, and send us Grace and Good for ever ". This is clearly a reference to the double dedication, and rather increases the air of abstraction surrounding the names of Probus and Grace. There is a good modern reredos, some brasses, a beautiful E. window, and some ancient stonework at the altar. In the tower is a peal of six bells. There was a collegiate foundation here before the Conquest, attributed to Athelstan ; but the choice of site for this and many similar colleges is mysterious. Probus is merely a village now, and does not give sign of ever having been anything else. At Golden Farm, in this parish, priests' hiding-places have been discovered. Prussia Cove (7 m. E. of Penzance) is so named after the old King of Prussia inn, whose landlord. Carter, was a notorious smuggler, yet withal a devout Methodist. After many daring 223