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chapel within the fortress at Tintagel is recorded to have been 

 dedicated ; just as the Cornish name Jennifer is believed to repre- 

 sent the "Guinevere" of Arthurian times.''' 



In the Rectory grounds adjacent were noticed two ancient 

 crosses and a fine old Norman font, of somewhat goblet-like 

 shape, and with cable and zig-zag ornament. 



"Castle Golf" — an ancient entrenchment, near the Eectory, 

 and the Inscribed Stone adjoining, were next visited and inspected. 

 The Camp comprises a larger and a smaller ring ; a plan and 

 description of it by Mac Lauchlan, were published some years since 

 by this Institution.t A sketch of the Stone, with part of its 

 inscription, has been published by Blight, in his " Crosses, &c., of 

 East Cornwall." The stone, of granite, is well formed, and tapers 

 from a broad end (cut away, with shoulders, to form a tenon for 

 a socket) to a squared top ; it is tolerably well placed, both for 

 preservation and for inspection, leaning, as it does, somewhat like 

 a flying buttress, against the southernly wall of a farm building. 

 The Inscription, forming three lines, occupies the upper face and 

 one of the lateral edges of the stone. The words appear to be in 

 mixed Eoman and Saxon characters. A sketch and rubbing were 

 taken by the Reverend W. lago, and compared with those made by 

 Mr. Blight and Mr. Maclean. The result will appear as a wood- 

 cut, with translation, in a forthcoming Number of Mr. Maclean's 

 " Trigg Minor." 



By the courteous and considerate hospitality of the Reverend 

 J. J. Wilkinson and Mrs. Wilkinson, the excursionists, with 

 visitors at the Rectory and friends from Camelford — altogether 

 about 70 in number — partook of an elegant yet most substantial 

 and invigorating luncheon, served on the lawn in the very pictur- 

 esque grounds wherein the modern manse — a building possessing 

 much architectural beauty — is situate ; and, on a proposal from 



* In the " History of Christian Names," by the aiithor of " The Heir of 

 Kedclyffe," " Landmarks of History," frc, there occurs, in a chapter treating 

 of "Names of Cymric Eomance," the following concerning the name 

 " Gwenever " : — " Guenever was her full English name, contracted into 

 Ganivi'e, or Ganore, a form that occurs in old Welsh registers. Jennifer, as 

 they have it in Corn^\'all, is still frequent there ; but nowhere else in our 

 island has the name been followed." 



In another chapter, which treats of "Modern Names from the Latin," 

 occurs the following : — "That V is easily changed to Y, was plain in the 

 treatment received by Violante, who was left to that dignified sound only in 

 Spain ; but in France was called Tolande, or for affection, Yolette ; and in 

 the confusion between y and j, figures in our old English histories in the 

 queer looking form of Joletta." 



t Vide Eeport of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, 1850. 



