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Inscription as : — cirvsivs hic iacit cvnowori filivs. He added 

 "the same learned person (Lluyd) justly thinks the w to be an 

 M reversed, the "w [in the form now in use] being but lately (about 

 A.D. 1200) introduced into any alphabet." Mr. Jonathan 

 Rashleigh deserves -the thanks of Archselogists for having had 

 the stone well set up, on lofty steps, in its present excellent 

 position. Its date has been assigned to the period of centuries 

 extending from the 4th to the 7th. In its summit is a socket, 

 and at the top of the back of the stone is a cross in relief, either 

 a " tau " — cross, or a mutilated cross which once was more 

 complete. The Eev. W. lago described the stone and its 

 legend, to those present, and remarked that a broad-arrow, the 

 " bench-mark " of the Ordnance Survey, was cut in recent years 

 upon the stone. A protest having been sent to head-quarters, 

 the men were forbidden to cut the broad-arrow on Antiquarian 

 remains in future. 



Fowey was next reached, and some of the party crossed 

 Bodinnick Ferry, for the purpose of seeing Hall Walk, which 

 commands a beautiful view of the harbour, and on which King 

 Charles I, it is said, was walking in 1646, when he was fired at. 

 It forms part of the grounds of the old mansion in which he 

 stayed ; at the present time a farm-house marks the site, and 

 the fine chapel is used as a barn. The property belongs to 

 the family of Howell of Ethy, and is in the parish of Lanteglos- 

 by-Fowey. 



Other members of the party, including the Mayor of 

 Bodmin, visited Polruan, with its ancient cross and the ruins of 

 St. Saviour's Chapel. In the precincts of this latter there was 

 found many years ago, a leaden "bulla," which had been the 

 seal of a Papal "Bull," and is now deposited in the Royal 

 Institution Museum, at Truro. It bears, in Lombardic capitals, 

 the legends : — " tjrbanus, pp yi," with small figures of eagles 

 below, on one side, — and " s[anctus] pa[ulus]. s[anctus] 

 PE[TRTrs]." with the Apostles' faces and a crozier, on the other. 

 Urban the 6th was Pope from 1378 to 1389. (For such "BuUge 

 Paparum" see Astle, p. 158, tab. xxviii.) St. Saviour's tower 

 is stated to have fallen in 1825. 



In going down the harbour, from Bodinnick, Mr. E. 

 Rashleigh pointed out the vessel " Mary Ann," an old smuggler 



