ST. IVES St. Michael's head, with the result that the arch- angel, as Mr. Matthews says, bears a head like a Dutch cheese. There is a fine cross outside the S. porch, thrown down b)' the Reformers, and re-erected about fifty years since. The church stands so low and near the shore that in rough weather waves have broken right over it. There are almost numberless prehistoric and Christian antiquities in the neighbourhood — crosses, holy wells, cromlechs, cairns, hut-dwell- ings, stone circles, entrenchments ; only a com- plete guide to the district can fully enumerate these. In the Domesday survey St. Ives came within the manor of Ludduham (now Ludgvan). Till the fifteenth century it remained a mere hamlet, but it enjoyed a quiet and increasing prosperity. In the reign of Henry VI. Porthminster was destroyed by the French. In 1497 Perkin Warbeck landed near St. Ives, and was here proclaimed King Richard IV. Rights of market were granted by Henry VII., and in 1558 the town was made a parliamentary borough, re- turning two members. It was a hospitable town, paying away considerable sums of money to relieve shipwrecked persons and unfortunates of all nationalities ; in fact there was quite a remarkable breadth and toleration in its charities, as will be acknowledged by any one who studies its Borough Accounts. Like most active centres of industry, the town held strongly for the Parliament during the Civil War, and therefore its church does not possess 135
