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ON A MAP OF PART OF THE PARISHES OF BUDOCK AND MTLOR, 

 DRAWN ABOUT A.D. 1580, WITH A NOTICE OF ARWENACK 

 HOUSE. 



Exhibited by HENRY M. JEPFBRY, F.E..S., Vice-President. 



This map (Plate A) is extracted from a book of maps, whicli 

 is preserved in the British Museum ; it contains Lord Burghley's 

 hand-writing, and may be quoted as Burghley's Map. It 

 gives a ground-plan, not based on a survey, but carefully 

 sketched by an artist without actual measurement from Mylor 

 Pool to Pennance Point. Pendennis is drawn in elevation, and 

 its extremities must have been sketched from positions far apart. 



We are indebted to Burghley's map alone for our know- 

 ledge of the manor — and farm — houses of Budock and Gluvias, 

 which were standing in Elizabeth's reign, of their churches, of 

 the town of Penryn and, in its outskirts, of Glasney College, and 

 the Bishop's Palace (now Poat's Court), and Arwenack House, 

 the precursor of Falmouth, in the main still standing. Pen- 

 dennis and St. Mawes Castles are also drawn. By the aid of 

 this map, so clear and distinct, and of existing remains, Mr. 

 Dunstan of Penryn has reproduced a plan and drawings of 

 Glasney College and Arwenack Manor House. The former 



were published in the 47th Annual Eeport of this Journal, 1865, 

 bytheEev. C. R. So well, of Gorran, to illustrate his valuable 

 monograph on the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas of Glasney. 

 Of the College Chapel dedicated to Thomas-a-Becket the tower 

 alone appears in Burghley's map : but Mr. Dunstan has repro- 

 duced the whole edifice by the help of the existing foundations. 

 The rest of the Monastic Buildings appear intact. We must 

 therefore infer that in the interval between the dissolution of 

 Monasteries in 1545 and 1580, the probable date of this map, 

 demolition had begun. The map, however, may be some years 

 earlier. 



