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ISogal ^Pnistitution of aTorniMaU. 



ANNUAL EXCURSION, 1894. 



On Tuesday, the 11 th of September, in very favorable 

 weather, the Members and friends of the Institution met at Par 

 Railway Station — where breaks and other carriages were in 

 readiness to take the excursionists to the various points of 

 interest to be visited, under the leadership of Mr. J. D. Enys, 

 r.G.S., the President. 



Before leaving for more distant scenes, a short walk was 

 taken to Tywardreath Church (St. Andrew's). 



Mr. Evelyn Rashleigh called attention to the site of the 

 destroyed Priory, and to many ancient relics preserved in the 

 immediate locality. 



We may here note that the name Tywardreath, like other 

 Cornish names, is significant. Being derived from " Tre " or 

 " Ty," a dwelling-place, — "war," upon, — "treath," a sandy- 

 shore, — it tells us that the sea in former times extended more 

 nearly to the spot than it does now. The bound to which it rose 

 in early days was pointed out, and also the position of an old 

 penny foot-bridge no longer existing. 



Tywardreath Church has been restored chiefly at the cost of 

 Mr. Jonathan Rashleigh, of Menabilly, the lay Rector, a former 

 President of this Society ; who is also the possessor of valuable 

 manuscripts relating to the dissolved Priory, and to other 

 mediaeval foundations (see R.I.C. Journal, vol. v, p. 252 ; vol. 

 VI, p. 213, etc.) In the church a slab remains inscribed to the 

 memory of Thomas Colyns, the last Prior, who died in the 16th 

 century. This ecclesiastic has preserved to us, on one of his 

 seals, what is considered to have been the original pose of the 

 famous Laocoon group of statuary, the broken remains of 

 which, Michael Angelo seems to have incorrectly put together. 



