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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 193 W. wall of S. aisle is a large monument, good of its kind and repainted, to Sir Nicholas Prideaux, 1627, wife and 4 sons, with kneeling effigies. In porch are stocks with 8 holes. As to the highly interesting chartered sanctuary rights of this church, ignored by all Cornish writers, see Dr. Cox's Sanctuaries and Sanctuary Seekers (191 1), pp. 220-6. (Registers, 1599.) St. Paul. — Church, re-dedicated to St. Paulinus of York in 1336, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S. porch, and W. tower. Registers begin with following entry : — Jesu spes et Salus mea. A register of the names of all those that were baptised, married, and buried in the Parish Church of St. Paule in the Countie of Cornwall from the 23 d Daie Julie, the year of our Lord God 1595, on the which Daie the Church, toure, bells, and all other things pertaining to the same, together with the houses and goods, was Burn'd and spoil'd by the Spaniards in the said parish, being Wensdaie the date aforsaid, in the 37th yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, Fraunce and Ireland, defender of the Faith. Per me Johannem Trewearne, Vicarium Ejus. Two first entries record burial of two parishioners killed by Spaniards. This petty invasion gave rise to siege and capture of Cadiz in following year. It is obvious, however, that fire did little more than N