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college ignorantly setting fire to a barrel of gunpowder, the 

 parish stores laid up in the rood loft, as Hals tells us. This 

 original college of St. Oolumb was destroyed by fire in July 1701, 

 and not the slightest remains of the structure now exist. The 

 next rectory-house appears to have been built on somewhat of 

 the same plan, and must have been of a very interesting character, 

 and although destroyed in the early part of this century, to make 

 room for the present parsonage, it is still clearly remembered by 

 some of the old inhabitants, and from their remembrance and 

 notices by some of our local historians, the following description 

 is compiled. It is supposed to have been built by Sir John 

 Arundel, Knight, (who is said to have received his education in 

 the old college), on the model of his collegiate home. The build- 

 ing was long and low, with entrance porch leading into a lobby 

 with a hall on the right hand, and three rooms on the left. These 

 constituted two sides of a narrow quadrangle, whilst the kitchens, 

 grand staircase and some rooms above formed the other sides. 

 From the room on the left of the lobby, supposed to have been 

 the rector's parlour, a spiral staircase led to the rooms overhead, 

 namely, the dormitory for pupils, deacon's room, and the rector's 

 room. The kitchen was clearly marked out by its open roof and 

 its old-fashioned cooking arrangements, and from the back 

 kitchen there arose another spiral staircase to the servant's room 

 above. The grand staircase led to a bedroom, which was, no 

 doubt, reserved for the Bishop or Archdeacon at the respective 

 visitations of each. Adjoining this room was the chapel, 

 running east and west, long, lofty, and broad. As years passed 

 on changes took place in the old building, the chapel was par- 

 titioned oG into two bedrooms, the school into a parlour and 

 pantry, and other so-called improvements were made in the 

 Bishop's chamber, the grand staircase, and the lobby, until the 

 whole building was at last destroyed, to make room for the 

 present rectory-house, and this most interesting structure, the 

 reputed work of Sir John Arundel, the echo of the so-called 

 college of Monks Augustine, has faded from the minds of nearly 

 all the inhabitants of St. Columb. 



A paper contributed by Mr. Cole, C.E., on " The main roads 

 of Cornwall in the 17th century," was then read. The principal 

 roads of Cornwall in the l7th century have been minutely 

 delineated by John Ogilby, in his " description of the main roads 



