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ST. IVES 249 dance for a quarter of an hour at least, on the ground adjoining the mausoleum, and after the dance sing the 100th Psalm of the old version, to the fine old tune to which the same was then sung in St. Ives Church ; £1 to a fiddler who shall play- to the girls while dancing and singing at the mausoleum, and also before them on their return home therefrom ; £2 to two widows of seamen, fishermen or tinners of the borough, being sixty- four years old or upwards, who shall attend the dancing and singing of the girls, and walk before them immediately after the fiddler, and certify to the mayor, collector of Customs, and clergyman, that the ceremonies have been duly performed ; £1 to be laid out in white ribbons for breast- knots for the girls and widows, and a cockade for the fiddler, to be worn by them respectively on that day and on the Sunday following." These observances have been duly performed, the last date being 1906, when many visitors attended to witness the proceedings. A little eastward of Carbis Bay is Lelant, the mother-parish of St. Ives. Its full title is St. Uny Lelant, and the dedication is to the Irish Eoghain or Euinus, whom we find in Brittany as Uniac. There are other traces of him in Cornw^all, as at Redruth and Sancreed ; and it is probable that he arrived in Cornwall about the same time as St. la, but the fullest traditions of him relate to his Irish life. The word " Lelant " is explaned as Lan-nans, the " valley-church " ; in old books we still find the parish named as Lanant. The stronghold of Tewdrig, who murdered St. la and other saints, is supposed to have been on the coast here, its traces concealed by the sweeping sands that very nearly made an end of the village entirely, as they