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name in consonance with, its castellated style. And in the old, 

 old days it was called Gwarthendra. The present building is 

 Elizabethan, and has not suffered much alteration. Carew 

 describes it as " the new and stately house of Mr. Nicholas 

 Prideaux, who thereby taketh a full and large prospect of the 

 toune, haven, and country adjoining ; to all of which his wisdom 

 is a stay, his authority a direction," — a tradition which is 

 admirably maintained by the present highly esteemed repre- 

 sentatives of that ancient family, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. 

 Prideaux-Brune. The house is believed to occupy the site of 

 an ancient monastery, which was destroyed by the Danes, when, 

 according to the Saxon Chronicle, they plundered and set fire to 

 the town. 



The company lunched, through the hospitality of Mr. 

 Prideaux Brune, in the old oak-pannelled dining hall of the 

 mansion ; and after luncheon, Dr. TroUope, the Bishop of 

 Nottingham (suffragan of Lincoln), read an interesting paper 

 on "the antiquities of the neighbourhood." He alluded to a 

 volcanic hill and submarine forest on the other side of the river. 

 He suggested that the forest was now submarine, by reason of 

 the sinking of the ground, and not because of the encroachment 

 of the sea. He mentioned the finding of many remains in that 

 neighbourhood which he considered pointed unmistakably to 

 that part of (Jornwall, at all events, having been occupied by the 

 Romans. The Bishop also alluded to the shifting of the sands 

 on the other side of Padstow harbour, and the discovery of the 

 remains of the ancient church of St. Enodoc. 



There was no time to discuss the Bishop of Nottingham's 

 paper; but time was of course found to thank Mr. Prideaux 

 Brune for his hospitality. Mr. lago was the first to express the 

 gratitude of the company for such a haven of rest and refreshment 

 as Prideaux Place proved to be after the storms of the day. He 

 observed also that he had long known Bishop TroUope as a 

 writer on Cornish antiquities, and alluded to the recent discovery 

 of another distinct trace of Eoman remains in North Cornwall 

 of the time of the Emperor Licinius. Canon A. P. Moor then 

 proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Prideaux-Brune for his liberal 

 and graceful hospitality, and recalled a similar reception the 



