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INTRODUCTION 45 latter case, care and attention will often restore the greater part. But Cornwall has within the last thirty or forty years lost most of its recovered examples, occasionally through the unwarrantable and repulsive practice of stripping rubble walls of their skin, of which St. Just-in-Penwith is an egregious instance, and more often through Phili- stine objections or careless indifference. The chief remains of wall-paintings now to be noted are at St. Breage, Linkinhorne, Morwenstow, Poughill, Poundstock, and St. Thomas-by-Launceston. 1 The church of St. Neot is celebrated for its ex- ceptional wealth of late mediaeval PAINTED GLASS, second to none in any parish church in England. There is also notable old glass at St. Winnow and St. Kew. As to less important remains, see Index. The following churches retain painted panel copies of the celebrated 1643 Letter of Charles I., expressing his gratitude to the particular loyalty of Cornwall ; several have disappeared within the last half-century : — St. Austell, St. Breage, Calstock, Camborne, Cardinham, Creed, St. Dominic, St. Erth, St. Ewe, Fowey, Gwennap, St. Gwinear, Illogan, St. Kea, St. Keverne, Landulph, Lanlivery, Lan- reath, Lelant, Menheniot, St. Minver, St. Mylor, St. Neot, St. Perran-Zabuloe, Philleigh, Poughill, St. Probus, St. Sennen, Sithney, St. Stephen-by- Saltash, Truro, Veryan, and St. Winnow. 1 See the detailed account of surviving and destroyed mural paintings in the R.I.C (1901-2), vol. xv. 141-160.