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Eos and its variations ; 350 with Bo, Bos, Bod, &c. ; 300 with 

 Lan, Lam, La ; 200 with Pol ; and 200 with Car, Caer, &c. 



The President mentioned, as in some degree pertinent to the 

 remarks made by Mr. Bannister, the great attention which had 

 been bestowed on names of Cornish places and persons, by the 

 Eev. J. Cai'ne, who had clone more than any other person in Corn- 

 wall towards identifying the names of places recorded in Domesday. 

 The President added that it was really worth while for any 

 gentleman, of antiquarian propensities, to make search among the 

 Records, which had lately been rendered accessible gratuitously, 

 by Lord Romilly, to all literary inquirers. His Lordship had 

 lately opened a magnificent circular building, in which the same 

 facilities were afforded as at the British Museum for consulting 

 works and making notes and extracts ; and, as such access was 

 thus afforded for the first time, to materials of most authentic 

 character, it would seem almost as if the time was come for re- 

 writing history. — Incidentally, in connection with these observa- 

 tions, Mr. Smirke spoke of the interest attaching to the records 

 of proceedings by Judges-Itinerant in past times, when, it appears, 

 they sometimes remained six or seven years on circuit, and had 

 established places of residence in the country. 



Dr. Barham, after mentioning the present that day by Mr. 

 Charles Fox, of a specimen of the Bul-hul, stated that he had re- 

 ceived a letter from Mr. Edwin Norris, in which that gentleman 

 ofiFered to make available for the Journal some curious information 

 with which he had been furnished concerning a negro language in 

 West Africa, in which he possessed the manuscript of a Tale 

 which bore a striking analogy to a Cornish story published by 

 Lhuyd and reprinted by Pryc0^. 



Mr. Charles Fox stated that in a recent number of the Fort- 

 nightly Review a return was given from the ecclesiastical registries in 

 Yorkshire of the number of clergymen who died about the year 

 1350 from the plague known as the Black Death. He considered it 

 would be very interesting to know whether in the diocese of Exeter 

 any similar return could be obtained ; for he understood that in 

 Norfolk, and some other counties of England, the number of 

 churches before that period was much larger than at the present 

 day. 



Dr. Barham observed that, in 1626, the mortality in the 

 West was as great in projDortion as in the parts referred to by Mr. 

 Fox. Some years ago he made an abstract from the parish regis- 

 tries of Tavistock, and the townsfolk there migrated to Dartmoor 



