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OTHER PAPERS. 



At the conclusion of the President's Address, various other 

 papers were read, and subjects discussed. 



Mr. J. H. Collins, F.G-.S., forwarded a continuation of his 

 observations on " The Origin and Development of Ore 

 Deposits in the West of England." 



Mr. P. Jennings, of St. Day, contributed " Notes on the 

 Parliamentary History of Truro, A.D. 1295—1467." 



Mr. F. J. Stephens, of Falmouth— '' The Adventures of a 

 Cornishman (J. Deeble) in foreign parts a hundred 

 years ago." 



Mr. H. Michell Whitley, F.G.8.,— "Supposed Hiding places, 

 at Grolden in Probus." 



The President observed, with reference to Grolden, that Mr. 

 Tregian, the owner, suffered much persecution in England : — his 

 wife nobly sharing his sufferings. He died at Lisbon, and a 

 memorial (in a church there) shews that his memory was much 

 revered. 



The Pev. W. lago, on the same subject, remarked that Mr. 

 Tregian's Chaplain, the Priest Cuthbert Mayne (who had been 

 in hiding) was, when caught, tried at the Assizes and barbarously 

 executed at Launceston. He was hanged, quartered, and 

 decapitated. His head had been exposed on a pole at 

 Wadebridge, and the upper part of the skull is now preserved 

 at Lanherne. It displays the square hole made by the iron 

 spike. He, and other members of the Poyal Institution of 

 Cornwall, had visited Lanherne, and seen it. Cuthbert Mayne 

 was convicted of being a Roman Catholic Priest found in 

 England at a time when the government required all such to 

 leave this country. The Pope had decreed that the dethronement 

 of Queen Elizabeth by her subjects would be justifiable. 

 Danger from the Komish faction, therefore, threatened the 

 Queen, and it was on that ground that all Roman priests were 

 called upon to quit this realm. Cuthbert Mayne came over and 

 remained, for religious purposes, but this constituted political 

 disobedience, and death was the penalty. He had committed no 

 other crime, and may therefore b© regarded as a Martyr. He 



