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ZENNOR old bench-end known as the " Mermaid of Zennor " ; she is there endowed with the customary tail, long hair, comb and mirror, but with hardly enough beauty to account for the upshot of the tale. On the tower wall is a bronze dial also bearing the figure of a mermaid. On this dial are inscribed the words : " The glory of the world paseth. Paul Quick fecit, 1737." Two of the three bells bear old Latin inscriptions, in true mediaeval fashion. It would seem that a former vicar of the parish had some trouble in collecting his tithes, if we may judge from the following entry taken from the parish register : — " Be it remembered. That on Sunday the 27th of June, 1762, Thomas Osborn of Tre- wey, Robert Michell of Tregarthen, Matthew Thomas of Treen, and Elizabeth Phillips of the Church Town, brought Butter and Cheese into the Chancel in the time of Divine Service, imagining, I suppose, it would be accepted instead of their Tithes for Cows and Calves ; but not being taken away either by them or any one else before it grew offensive, I ordered the Church Wardens, under pain of being cited to the Spiritual Court, to remove the same as an Indecency and a Nuisance to the Congrega- tion. I here insert this lest my successor should be imposed upon by being told that I accepted of that or any other Butter and Cheese instead of tithes of Cows and Calves, which I assure him I did not, nor of any other sort of tithe according to the Tenor of the Terrier, dated 267