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Description of a Fresco in Ludgvan Church ; from the original 
drawing by Dr. Borlase—By Mr. William C. Borlase, Castle 
Horneck. 
Notes on some Antiquities in East Cornwall.—By Mr. R. N. 
Worth, Plymouth. 
A few observations on Tintagel Castle—By the Reverend Pre- 
bendary Kinsman, M.A., Constable of the Castle. 
On an extraordinary phenomenon in the waters of the Mediterranean. 
—By Mr. Richard Edmonds. 
Rev. ‘W. [Aco gave an account, historical and descriptive, of 
an interesting and valuable Ivory Casket, the property of the 
Corporation of Bodmin; of a Skyppet, discovered in Bodmin: 
Church ; and of a Forcer, made of cwir bowilli, found at Lanivet. 
Mr. Iago illustrated many of his statements by means of diagrams ; 
and he also exhibited drawings of four Tallies found at Lanivet, 
which he compared with an ancient Exchequer Tally. (Mr. Iago 
promises to furnish, for our Journal, a written communication on 
the subjects which he had now, orally, brought before the Insti- 
tution ; and we gladly avail ourselves of his offer.) 
On the reading of Sir John Maclean’s paper, “On the Poll- 
Tax of 1377,” the earliest recorded census of the population of 
Cornwall, Mr. PENGELLY observed that formerly the term “ Corn- 
wall” frequently included the country so far east as the Axe, and 
Totness was continually mentioned as being in Cornwall.—Rev. J. 
R. CornisH, however, explained that, in Sir John Maclean’s Paper, 
the Hundreds in Cornwall were severally mentioned, and thus the 
‘ boundaries of the County in 1377 were identified with those now 
existent.—It appeared that in 1577, the recorded number, in 
Cornwall, of persons above the age of 14, omitting the clergy 
and non-fraudulent beggars, was 34,274; which, adding the pro- 
portion for children under 14, would make the total population 
51,524. At the time of the first official census, in 1801, the 
population of Cornwall was 189,278,—an increase since 1377 of 
about 267 per cent.—Dr. BARHAM thought the parish registers 
were not sufficiently made use of as means of ascertaining the 
population in early times. By studying them a very near approxi- 
mation could be obtained, and it would be seen how diseases, of 
which we have now no experience, occasionally swept over the 
country. In the 17th century, the inhabitants of Tavistock de- 
serted the town, where a plague had broken out, and encamped on 
Dartmoor ; 642 persons, out of a population of propa 5,000, 
having been carried off by the disease. 
