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 WADEBRIDGE built bridges ; he raised the fine tower of Egloshayle Church, and must have had some- thing to do with its stone pulpit, on which his name and device appear. The walls of the church are E.E. Egloshayle means the " church by the river," and its graveyard is washed by its tides ; it was, indeed, at this " ha}le " that Petrock and other Welsh saints landed in the sixth century, when he founded Padstow. St. Breock, on the W. bank, is the other Wade- bridge Church. Breock had come hither from Wales a good deal earlier than Petrock, and he was granted this piece of land by Conan, chieftain at Pencarrow, whom he is said to have converted. His church is in a lovely situation, with a brook flowing through the graveyard. Tower and font are Dec. ; the rest is restored Perp. There is a fourteenth century stone in the church, praying mercy for the soul of " Tomas de Vicarie ". At Transcowe, in this parish, is a far older inscribed stone, whose lettering has been read as Vlcagni Fill Sever. Near are the wild St. Breock Downs, over 700 ft. in height, whose desolate surface is scattered with prehistoric antiquities. Egloshayle is a living in the gift of the Bishops of Exeter, which explains Bishop Courtenay's efforts in assisting Lovibond to build the bridge. The doorway of the church, the font, the Kestell Monument, dated 1522, deserve careful inspection. It was at the long and low vicarage of Egloshayle that the late Professor Shuttleworth was born, his father being vicar here. Wade- bridge was an even quieter place in the days of 259