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Corn-wairs Cathedral by laying for it a good foundation ; and 

 very soon, it is hoped, our Eoyal Duke and Duchess may be 

 able to take part in the opening services. Our Princely Vice- 

 Patron is thus beheld accomplishing a part of that mission 

 which was sketched out for him by his Royal Ancestor 550 years 

 ago, when in the creating Charter he declared " We have 

 bestowed the name and honour of the Dukedom that our 

 Kingdom and the Holy Church thereof may be the more 

 securely and fitly defended." 



Edward, before he had been 50 years upon the throne, 

 celebrated his personal Jubilee on reaching the 50th year of his 

 age. He marked that event in 1362 by issuing, to Bodmin and 

 other places then of consequence, copies on parchment of his 

 "General Pardon" written in Norman French. These documents 

 are still preserved, and I have deciphered and translated that 

 one which belongs to the County Town. 



"With regard to the next 'King who held a Jubilee the 

 Cornish granite boulders do testify — for upon the rising ground 

 of the common of Pendrift in the parish of Blisland is still to be 

 seen "King Greorge Ill's Jubilee Eock. " Smaller rocks 

 surround it and some of them serve as steps for its ascent. 

 Sculptures appear on the ponderous mass (which is said to weigh 

 not less than 150 tons), these display the Boyal Initials, insignia, 

 and the date 1810, also various armorial devices and mottoes 

 relating to Grreat Britain, to Cornwall and its Duke. There are 

 emblazoned the Boscawen-Pose cognizance of Lord Falmouth 

 and the Arms of Molesworth. Grouped upon the front are the 

 emblems of Peace, Industry, Agriculture and Plenty. Upon the 

 top are sundry masonic signs. Verses relating to the various 

 figures and to Commerce, composed by the sculptor — an officer 

 in the army, Lieut. Sogers, since deceased, — are also engraved 

 upon a plate of brass. 



Pendrift or Pendreive was Mr. Pogers's home, the residence 

 of his father. In his lines he thus addresses his friends and 

 neighbours : — 



" May blessings round your dwellings flock 

 Te merry natives of Pendree, 

 As long as ye revere this Rock 

 In honour of our Jubilee ! " 



