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ST. IVES— ST. JULIOT mace-bearers and police, escorted to the mauso- leum ten girls under ten years of age, two old women to attend them, and a fiddler. To the strains of the violin the children danced for a quarter of an hour around the monument, and for so doing they each received los., the; fiddler and the women getting a sovereign each." In conclusion, it mav interest some to be told that John Wesley paid as many as twenty-seven visits to St. Ives. The place savours strongly of Wesleyanism and of pilchards. (See Fisheries.) Artists also are almost as plentiful as at Newlyn, and scenes of the quaint streets, the fishing smacks, the rough coast, have often figured in the great exhibitions. yncobstoic (about 7 m. S. of Bude) is apparently a dedication to St. James, and a Saxon settlement. In this parish is Penhallam, mentioned in Domesday. Jamaica Inn (11 m. W. of Launceston), on the Bodmin Moors, once a solitary house of refreshment, is now the centre of a small hamlet. St. jfohn's (i m. S.E. of Antony) is situated at the head of St. John's Lake, an inlet of the Tamar. The church, beautifully placed, has a good Norm, tower. A John is named as one of the Brychan saints, but Johns so abound in every calendar that it is impossible to say which gave his name to this parish. St. yuliot or Julietta (2 m. S. of Boscastle) is locally sometimes called St. Jilt ; perhaps the dedication is to Julitta, mother of St. Cyriacus. 137