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disfigurement whicli might have ensued, I have felt no hesitation 

 in giving designs, in accordance with their various styles, for the 

 remounting of the Anglo-Saxon Font of Lanteglos-by-Camelf ord, 

 now at St. Conan's, Egloshayle ; the transition-Norman Font 

 of Temple ; and the ancient gothic Cross-heads of Launceston 

 and Lostwithiel. As to the present location or use of any of 

 these, I am not responsible. 



Moreover, I have at di:fferent times supplied from early 

 rubbings some of the missing figures of brasses in Lanteglos-by- 

 Fowey and St. Breock Churches, to aid in commemorating the 

 departed whose tombs had been despoiled of their effigies. But 

 as a rule I disapprove of replacing lost portions of ancient work 

 by new. 



Of course no compunction could exist when circumstances 

 enabled me to restore to Bishop Vivian's tomb, in Bodmin 

 church, one of the original but long-lost supporting Angels 

 which had been broken off from the monument, had been 

 embedded within the premises of an Inn, and had been, for 50 

 years after its discovery there, mistaken for the image of a 

 Mayor of the Borough who had been hanged !* 



It was also satisfactory to me to be able to assist in bringing 

 together once more the Armorial-Shield and the Inscription-plate 

 of " CristofPer Tredeneck " (Sheriff of Cornwall in the reign of 

 Henry VIII) at St. Breoke. This shield although mentioned is 

 not figured in Dunkin's work, for some of its charges were not 

 clearly deciphered when he wrote, I made them out afterwards, 

 and also discovered that some over-zealous puritan by cutting a 

 line of erasure in the brass had endeavoured to obliterate from 

 the legend the aspiration that Glod's mercy might be extended 

 to the soul of the deceased. 



The excavations for the new branch Railways have resulted 

 in discoveries as already briefly noted. At Launceston some 

 remains of the old Priory were brought to light. 



At Bodmin the new Station and the cutting approaching it 

 mark the site of the mediseval cemetery of the Chapel of St. 

 Nicholas, several graves containing skeletons and silver coins of 

 the 13th century having been found by the men employed. 



* Bodmin Eegister, p. 211. E.I. of C. Journal, Vol. VII, p. 195, and Vol. 

 VIII, p. 316. 



