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 INTRODUCTION 49 added Camborne (1882), Cardinham, Egloshayle (1907), Helland (1888), Helston (1905), St. Kea (1904), Lanlivery, Launceston St. Mary Magdalene (1901), and Stratton (1878). The cathedral church of Truro has a ring of ten bells. 1 There is a curious adjunct to not a few of the churches of Cornwall, in the shape of the old village STOCKS. The stocks of an English village usually The Stocks, Lostwithiel stood near the church, but that was an accidental juxtaposition, arising from the fact that the green or open space for the most part adjoined the church, and that it was the most public place in the town- ship. The custom has, however, sprung up of late years in Cornwall of sheltering the stocks under the church fabric, sometimes in the porch and sometimes at the W. end of the church. This is, of course, done from an antiquarian point of view, and from that aspect it is wholly commendable. But, for our own part, we confess that there is something a little incongruous if not irreverent in the presence of these 1 As to Bell Ringers' rhymed rules, see Index. D