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cease until more were found. Mr. Paull was a diligent inquirer 

 after such antiquities ; and if that gentleman had been present on 

 this occasion, he would have told him that if he would go to 

 Rialton, he would there find a sculptured stone which he (the 

 President) had repeatedly incjuired about. He found it the other 

 day when on a visit to Newquay. The stone had been removed 

 from its ancient site, and was now built into the wall of a farm 

 building, about half a mile from the old manor-house at Eialton, 

 — The President next referred to the contribution, from Mr. Mac 

 Lauchlan, of a fine series of engravings illustrative of ancient 

 Eoman roads. It was well known that Mr. Mac Lauchlan had 

 been most extensively employed not only as a professional sur- 

 veyor of eminence, but also in tracing and describing Roman 

 remains in the North of England for the late Duke of Northum- 

 berland. For ail records of such remains in that part of the 

 country, we were indebted to Mr. Mac Lauchlan and Mr. Bruce, 

 and it was gratifying to find that a gentleman, whose duty 

 brought him into this county about thirty years ago on business 

 connected with the Duchy, so well remembered his friends here 

 that, from time to time, he transmitted to Dr. Barham both 

 Papers and objects of interest as contributions to the Museum 

 of this Institution. — Referring to the Journal just issued (No. VII) 

 as being very interesting, the President pointed out the first 

 Paper in it as one of which he felt called on to speak -with very 

 great approbation. It contained by far the best list of Cornish 

 bishops that he had ever seen. An attempt in this direction had 

 been made by a late member of this Society, who had a very com- 

 petent knowledge of ancient documents; but he must say that 

 Mr. Carne, in this Paper, had furnished a more detailed, method- 

 ical, and complete account of the Cornish Bishops, with the 

 authorities in every instance, than had previously been given. 

 It ought to be stated, however, that Mr. Carne was in a better 

 position than he (the President) was to form a judgment on the 

 matter, and Mr. Carne spoke extremely favourably of Mr. Pedler's 

 Avork. One defect with regard to Mr. Pedler's work was that, 

 in certain old MSS. called the Bodmin Gospels, he took it for 

 granted that every name he found mentioned in connection with 

 Bodmin was, as a matter of course, that of a Cornish Bishop. 

 At the utmost, it would only amount to a possibility ; but Mr. 

 Pedler would seem to have assumed that such Bishop could have 

 belonged to no other Bishopric ; although in certain diplomata 

 and early charters unconnected with Cornwall, Burhwold, an un- 

 doubted Bishop of Cornwall, was mentioned as " Bishop," mthout 

 mention of his See. Persons acquainted with such ancient docu- 

 ments must know that the signature of a Bishop as an attestuig 



