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TliG Taunton collection given to us by Mr. Stokes wUl prove 

 most useful to anyone who may undertake to write a History of 

 Truro. Tlie donor informs me that he entrusted other papers 

 of the same series to the late Eev. E. Gr. Harvey of Mullion, 

 who was contemplating the production of a work of the kind. 

 The author, compiler, and collector of these papers was Richard 

 Taunton, M.D., F.R.S., Senior Physician of the Eoyal Cornwall 

 Infirmary at Truro. He married a daughter of Whitaker, and, 

 having died in 1838, was buried in St. Mary's churchyard. 

 Let us hope that the excavations for the Cathedral have not 

 disturbed his remains. Several old records are preserved 

 amongst his manuscripts. Some relate to the castles of St. 

 Mawes and Pendennis, others to Penryn ; two well-preserved 

 sealed parchments, dated A.D., 1394 and 1504 respectively, 

 describe a Hopkyn endowment in St. Mary's, Truro, and a grant, 

 by Arundell, of stone for building the Tower of the same 

 Church. Copies of these I have made, to lay before you. 



The Wallis manuscripts have been bequeathed to me, and I 

 hope to be able to select from them some that may be of value 

 to this Institution. The Eev. John Wallis, M.A., F.S.S., Vicar 

 of Bodmin and Archdeacon's official, was the author of the 

 Bodmin Register, Cornwall Register, and other published works, 

 including ecclesiastical maps of the Diocese. His twin brother 

 Capt. Wallis of the 15th Madras Native Infantry, was engaged 

 in surveying India for the English Government. Their father 

 John Wallis, Attorney at Law, was Yice- Warden of the 

 Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall. 



Biographical notices of the several writers whom I have 

 named and accounts of their works have been given in the 

 Cornish Bibliotheca and Collectanea, also in the Journal of the 

 British Archaeological Association,* and in the Volumes of our 

 own Journal. t 



In concluding this address, I would allude to the folio sving 

 pleasing facts : — We have not lost any member by death during 

 the past year. Our county has reaped the benefit of extended 

 Railway accommodation, the Helston and the Bodmin lines 



*Vol. 33, p. 35. ~ ~ 



t Vol. 4. pp. XXV. xxvi. of Annual Meeting 1873, and Vol. 6, pp. 163, 

 167, &c. 



