harge,
to be paid out of the manor of Glivian, in Mawgan, which sum is annually
to be put into a chest which is not to be opened except at the end of
every five years. Then, out of the accumulated sum, a dinner was to be
given to the mayor, collector of customs, and vicar of S. Ives, and two
friends to be invited by each of them, and L15 to be equally divided
among ten girls, natives of S. Ives, under ten years old, who should,
between 10 a.m. and noon on S. James the Apostle's Day, dance and sing
round the mausoleum, to the fiddling of a man who was to receive a pound
for so doing and for fiddling as the procession of girls went to the
obelisk and returned. One pound was to be laid out in white ribbons for
the damsels and a cockade for the fiddler. Some of the money was to go
to keep the mausoleum in repair, and there were certain benefactions
also recorded.

The first Knillian celebration took place in July, 1801, when,
according to the will of the founder, a band of little girls, all
dressed in white, with two widows and a company of musicians, marched
in procession to the top of the hill, where they danced about the
monument, then, as Knill desired, sang the Hundredth Psalm to its old
melody, and after that returned in the same order to S. Ives. The
ceremony still takes place every fifth year.

In dancing the children sing the following in chorus:--

          Shun the bustle of the bay,
          Hasten, virgins, come away;
          Hasten to the mountain's brow,
          Leave, O leave, S. Ives below.
          Haste to breathe a purer air,
          Virgins fair, and pure as fair;
          Fly S. Ives and all her treasures,
          Fly her soft voluptuous pleasures;
          Fly her sons and all their wiles,
          Lushing in their wanton smiles;
          Fly the splendid midnight halls;
          Fly the revels of her balls;
          Fly, O fly the chosen seat,
          Where vanity and fashion meet.
          Hither hasten from the ring,
          Round the tomb in chorus sing,
          And 