92 CHBONOLOQICAL MEMORANDA, 1865. 



April 14. West Brtfon publishes a Letter signed "Inquirer," concerning 

 an Ancient Stone Cross on the farm of Tresvere, in the parish of Constantine. 



April 18. Two Swallows seen at Place, Fowey. 



April 18. A discovery of Eoman Coins at Pennance Farm, Budock. A 

 labourer, removing some earth, found, about two feet below the surface, on a 

 foundation or floor of stone, a quantity of second brass Eoman Coins, of the 

 reigns of Constantine, Diocletian, and Maximinus ; and also about eight or 

 ten third brass, some of which are attributed to Gallienus. 



April 28. Eoyal Institution of Cornwall. Spring Meeting ; Mr. Au- 

 gustus Smith, M.P., presiding. The following Papers were read : Identifica- 

 tion of Domesday Manors in Cornwall ; by Eev. John Came, M.A., Eector 

 of Merther. Ornithology; by Mr. E. Hearle Eodd. An Ancient Place of 

 Sepulture at Hallstatt, Austria ; by Dr. C. Barham. Antiquarian Eemains 

 in St. Merryn and St. Eval ; by Mr. W. Edwards Michell. Castallack Bound; 

 by Mr. J. T. Blight. Lanteglos by Camelford ; by Eev. J. J. Wilkinson. 

 The Phoenicians and their Trade with Britain; by Mr. Eeginald Stuart 

 Poole. (See Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. IV.) 



May 1. Plymouth Institution. Annual Meeting ; Mr. Booker, President, 

 in the Chair. A Paper read by Mr. J. B. Eowe, on Octopus vulgaris. 



May 5. West Briton contains a notice of " Ancient Beaches at Pen- 

 zance." 



May 10. Cornish Telegraph publishes a Notice, from Mr. E. Hearle 

 Eodd, of an appearance of two or three specimens of the Golden Oriole at 

 Scilly. 



May 10 and 17. Cornish Telegraph publishes a nan-ative, by John 

 Taylor, the Water Poet, of a sea fight off Cornwall, in 1640, between three 

 Turkish Ships, Pirates, or Men-of-War, and the good ship "Elizabeth," of 

 Plymouth. 



May 17. Cornish Telegraph publishes "The Cornish Cavaliers" — 

 Certain information from Barnstable, in Devon, Monday, 17th October, 1642. 



May 17 and 24. Cornish Telegraph publishes " New News from Corn- 

 wall, being a most true Eelation of the strange behavioui* of the Cavaliers in 

 that County. 1642." 



May 24. Cornish Telegraph publishes " A Eemonstrance or Declaration 

 of the Names of the Knights and Gentlemen that take part with Sir Ealph 

 Hopton and other delinquents in Devonshire and Cornwall, with the number 

 of their Forces. Also the names of the Knights and Gentlemen that stand 

 well affected to the Parliament. 1642." 



June 7. CornisK^Telegraph publishes, from Archceologia, Vol. 3, Dainea 

 Barrington's Account of his interview with Dolly Pentreath (then in her 87th 

 year) in 1768. 



