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CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 



1869. 



January 1. The Western Morning News publishes an Article entitled : 

 ■" 1868 in the West of England." 



January 6. The Cornish Telegraph publishes an "Abstract of the 

 Weather at Penzance and its neighbourhood for the year 1868"; by W. 

 Hosken Eichards. 



January 6, and subsequently, passim. Cornish Telegraph publishes, m 

 continuation from the preceding year, a Series of Articles entitled " The 

 Excursion," by " Old Celt " ; including the Tin- Streamer's Story; Witch- 

 craft ; the Witch of Zennor ; the History of the Sailor ; Margaret's Feast ; 

 the Privateer's Adventures, &c., &c. 



January 8. Annual Meeting of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society ; 

 Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P., President, in the chair. Lord Eliot, Colonel 

 Tremayne, Rev. Saltreu Rogers, Mr. John Freeman, and Capt. W. Teague 

 elected Vice-Presidents. Mr. Giaisher and Mr. Frank Buckland elected 

 Honorary Members. 



January 14. The West Briton, in a notice of the Restoration of Wen- 

 dron Church, states that, " on uncovering the face of the wall in the north 

 transept, a series of holes with occasional corbels, was discovered at a uni- 

 form height of about six feet from the^or, and it has been suggested, with 

 some appearance of probability, that it was in this portion of the building 

 that the stage was erected periodically in medieval times, for the perform- 

 ance of miracle plays." 



January 27. Death of Mr. Richard Foster, of Castle, Lostwithiel. 



January 28. Cornwall Gazette states that a magnificent eagle had been 

 ^ seen twice within the last few days at Tregothnan.— It also records the 

 recent discovery of a fossil reptile, about 20 inches long, at Trebarwith 

 Downs, Tintagel. 



February 4 and 18, and March 4. Letters in the West Briton, from 

 " Cornubiensis," "N," and "H.H.Drake," concerning the Hext pedigree 

 and the families of Tredenhanx, Hawkins, and Scoble. 



February 9. Death of Mr. John Francis Basset, of Tehidy, aged 37. 



February 24. Cornish Telegraph records that, a short time ago, a young 



