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has been, in our own day, Beatified by the Church, of Rome, 

 and at Douay College are preserved some sensational pictures 

 which include a representation of the shocking treatment he 

 underwent at the hands of justice. 



Referring to some other topics which had been brought 

 before the notice of the Institution, Mr. lago stated that he had 

 consulted the authorities at the British Museum with reference 

 to the age of the Heathen Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions, at 

 Prideaux Place, which he had deciphered, and the date assigned 

 to them is the beginning of the First Century, A,D. 



He also received confirmation of the view that the Hebrew 

 tin image, at Lanhydrock, is a genuine relic of mediaeval time : — 

 its date appearing to be of the 13th century. 



He had also taken the opportunity of comparing manuscripts 

 of Defoe and other writers in the British Museum with some 

 which gave the full story of the Botathen Ghost. The conclusion 

 he arrived at was that Hawker, when stating what he alleged to 

 be fact, was writing fiction, and instead of quoting from an 

 original "Diurnal," had copied (misprints included) from C. S. 

 Gilbert. He hoped to contribute to the Journal full particulars 

 of these and other investigations. 



Canon Moor, in making feeling allusion to the death of Sir 

 A. W. Franks, C.B., testified to the great interest that eminent 

 archaeologist took in Cornish antiquities. 



Votes of thanks were accorded to the President and other 

 contributors of papers. 



The President, in replying, made suitable allusion to the 

 60th year of Her Majesty's Reign : — the Queen being the Patron 

 of their Institution. Mr. Courtney added that Her Majesty's 

 long connection with the Society was not the only cause of their 

 strong devotion towards her. She was Queen and Empress of 

 the vastest Empire in the world, and in that capacity had shown 

 wonderful political knowledge and discretion, and had endeared 

 herself to everyone of her subjects. The Queen had lived in the 

 time of many persons of great political distinction, men of 

 enormous power, who had devoted their minds to the service of the 

 country, and who had produced great changes in its political 



