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 INTRODUCTION 47 Many Strange Victories over their & our Enemies, In dispite of all humane probabilities & all Imaginable Disadvantages that as We Cannot be forgetful of so great Deserts, So We Cannot but desire to publish to all the World & perpetuate to all time the Memory of their Merits & of Our acceptance of the Same & to that end we do hereby tender our royal thanks to that our County in y e most Publick and lasting Manner We can devise Commanding Copies hereof to be printed & published & one of them to be read in every Church & Chapel therein & to be keept for ever as a record in y e Same y fc as Long as the History of these times & of this Nation shall Continue the Memory of how Much y e County hath Merited from us & our Crown may be derived with it to Posterity : Given at our Camp at Sudly Castle y e 10 th of September, 1643. Although many fell victims to the earlier restora- tions of last century, several good examples of Royal Arms, both panel-painted and in plaster, are extant. In three cases, namely, at Blisland (1604), Lanhydrock, and South Petherwin, the arms are those of James I. ; they are very seldom found in English churches. The arms of Charles I. are at St. Feock, St. Newlyn, St. Mylor, and Poughill. The feathers of Charles II. as Prince of Wales, dated 1635, appear at Lanreath, and his arms, mostly dated 1660, at Cardinham, St. Columb Minor, St. Ive, St. Juliot, Lanreath, Lanteglos - by - Fowey, St. Mawnan, St. Merryn, Mevegissey, St. Minver, St. Mylor, Pillaton, St. Veep, Warleggan, and Week St. Mary. The arms of James II. (1605) occur at