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CORNWALL Drus). TheTamar is a most tortuous but most beautiful river. Take it for all-in-all, it is the queen river of the west, lovelier because more varied than either the Dart or the Fal. Its one rival, among English rivers, is the Wye. St. Tea til (3 m. S.W. of Camelford) is connected with the name of St. Ytha, an Irish saint. In the S. transept E. window of the church are blazoned the arms of Henry VII., thereby giving its date ; but the tower is not earlier than 1630. In this same year the quaint carved pulpit seems to have been set up, bearing the arms of the Carminows, a branch of which ancient family lived at Tre- hannick in this parish. The Carminows claimed descent neither from Norman nor Saxon nobility, but from the days of King Arthur himself By this claim they made good their right to bear their arms — azure, a bend or — when that right was disputed by the Scropes and Grosvenors, in the time of Richard II. The family is now extinct. Temple (7 m. N.E. of Bodmin) is a tiny parish in the heart of the Bodmin Moors. The Templars once obtained land here and made a settlement. They must have done so with the best of motives ; there was nothing else to tempt them. The church which they built, and for which they gained some special privi- leges (such as the right of marriage without banns), long since fell out of use and decayed ; but it has been restored within the past few years. The restoration embodies a part of the 236