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Thence to Madron Church. In 1203 there was a clisj)ute 

 concerning the afl\owson between King John and the Knights 

 Hospitallers, which was settled in favour of the latter. In an 

 extent made in looS (anil published by the Camden Society), 

 the rector}' is described as appropriated to the preceptory of the 

 Hospitallers at Trebigh, in St. Ive. The church (well restored 

 in 1887) is a 14th century building, much altered in the 15th 

 and 16th centuries. Its high altar was consecrated in 1336. 

 There is some old glass, stated in Trans. Penzance Nat. His. and 

 Anticj. Soc. (vol. 1, p. 312), to be by Holbein, but without 

 reference to evidence. One of the bench-ends bears the arms of 

 Henry YIII. There are liere nine alabaster figures of angels, 

 probably part of a medieval reredos, a Norman font, and other 

 objects of interest, old and recent. In the yard is the well-known 

 epitaph of Alex. Daniell (died 1668) : 



" Belgia me Birth, Britain me Breeding gave, Cornwall a 

 Wife, ten children and a grave." 



His son G-eorge, who established a free school here, is buried 

 near by. 



Here ended a pleasant excursion, thongh many objects of 

 interest liad, through lack of time, been passed by unnoticed. 

 There were no formal papers read during the day. 



Dinner was enjoyed at the Railway Hotel at Penzance, 

 where the party were the guests of the ever generous president, 

 Sir E. Durning-Lawrence, whose enforced absence was much 

 regretted. The chair was taken by Mr. J. D. Enys, who gave 

 the usual loyal toasts, after which Mr. J. H. Collins proposed 

 the health of the president in a witty and genial speech that 

 put everybody on the best of terms with himself and everybody 

 else. The Rev. S. Rundle proposed the health of the chairman 

 and remarked that however much his hearers might differ on 

 such questions as the age of Chysauster or the object of the 

 men-an-tol they were certainly united in regai'ding Mr. Enys 

 with regard, esteem and affection. Mr. Enys suitably replied. 

 Remarks were also made by Mr. J. H. Bennetts (Mayor of 

 Penzance), the Rev. Charles F. Rogers, Dr. Hugh Montgomery 

 Major Parkyn, Messrs. A. K. Barnett, Thurstan C. Peter, and 

 John R. Collins. 



