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 CRANTOCK, NEWQUAY, MAWGAN 299 in arms. The country people entitled them the Great Arundells ; and greatest stroke, for love, living, and respect, in the country heretofore they bear. Their house of Lanhearn standeth in the parish called Mawgan, It is appurtenanced with a large scope of land which was employed in frank hospitality." The next attraction at Mawgan is its church. Perpendicular in style but dating from the thir- teenth century, its pinnacled tower is surrounded by beautiful Cornish elms, and close to the grave- yard runs a prattling brook. The restoration by Butterfield was not all that might be desired, but it happily spared the carved bench-ends, the fine pulpit and the screen. There are also some good brasses and memorials of the Arundells. In the churchyard is a remarkable lantern-cross — not Celtic but mediaeval ; it is described by Blight as " the most elaborate of the kind in Cornwall. What is intended to be represented by this carving is not very evident ; an angel seated on a block in a corner holds a serpent turning round a pillar, and with its head touching the face of a king. By the king's side is the figure of a queen kneeling before a lectern." There is also in the graveyard a curious monu- ment, the stern of a boat, bearing the record of ten seamen who drifted ashore in their little vessel, frozen to death, at Beacon Cove in 1846. Before leaving Mawgan most visitors will take a ramble through the beautiful Carnanton woods, while some may remember that Carnanton was the residence of William Noye, Attorney- General to Charles I., who as member for St. Ives had signalised himself as a champion of parliamentary rights. Ministerial rank worked a wonderful 17