On the daïs within are three handsome carved oak chairs, that for the mayor having the arms of the borough on the panel--a lion rampant within a bordure bezanted. On each side of the shield is a Prince of Wales’ ostrich plume. A late mayor was the brother of the famous astronomer, Professor Adams. The official costume of the mayor includes a robe of scarlet cloth trimmed with sable and a cocked hat; the justice or ex-mayor has a black mantle; and the mace-bearers have scarlet, silver-laced gowns and three-cornered hats. The maces date from 1696, and were presented by Francis Buller, Esq., and are three feet seven inches high. Near the water, almost crushed under the mighty arch of Brunel’s viaduct, is a little old shop with the date on it of 1584, and it is one of the very few specimens of a shop of that period that remain to us absolutely untouched. It is precisely the sort of shop “in our alley” from which Sally must have issued to meet her lover. And verily, as I stood drawing the quaint old place, there peeped out at me an absolutely ideal Sally. “Her father he makes cabbage nets, And through the streets does cry ’em; Her mother she sells laces long, To such as please to buy ’em. But sure such folks could ne’er beget So sweet a girl as Sally! She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.” [Illustration: PADSTOW HARBOUR] CHAPTER XI. BODMIN Grown up about a monastery--S. Petrock--Theft of his relics--Ivory reliquary--“Lord’s measures”--The Allan rivers--Pencarrow--S. Breock--Padstow--The Hobby-horse--The neighbourhood--The Towans--Pentyre--Porth Isaac--A cemetery. A town that has grown up about a monastery. The name is a contraction of Bod-minachau, “the habitation of monks”; and it owes its origin to S. Petrock. Petrock is Peter or Pedr, with the diminutive _oc_ added to the name. He was a son of Glwys, king of Gwent or Monmouthshire, according to one account, but according to another his father’s name was Clement. Anyhow, he formed one of the great migration from Gwent to North-east Cornwall. He found a hermit occupying a cell at Bodmin whose name was Guron, and this man surrendered to him his humble habitation. S. Guron’s Well is in the churchyard near the west end of the church. For his education he went to Ireland, where for twenty years he studied profane and sacred literature. He was probably a disciple of S. Eugenius, for Kevin, when aged seven, was entrusted to him by his parents to be reared for the monastic life, and Kevin, we know, learned his psalms from Eugenius. So soon as Petrock considered that he knew as much as could be taught him by his master, he resolved on returning to Cornwall, and embarked on the same boat which had borne him to Ireland twenty years before--a great vessel of wicker-work, covered with three coatings of hide, and with a leathern sail.