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Mr. Iago suggested, and Sir Edward Smirke concurred in the 
suggestion, that they represent the Annunciation. Two other 
objects in the Churchyard attracted attention—the vault in which 
the remains of the late Mr. Humphry Willyams, of Carnanton, 
were recently deposited ; and the rude monument which describes 
how, six-and-twenty years ago, there came ashore at Mawgan a 
boat containing ten frozen sailors. Above their resting-place is 
fixed the stern-board of the boat, recording this fact.—At the St. 
Mawgan Nunnery—formerly the seat of the Pincerna or Lanherne 
family, and afterwards of the Arundels—the excursionists were 
courteously received by the resident priest, who conducted them 
over the garden and chapel. In the garden stands a Saxon Cross, 
with words (which as yet have never been satisfactorily interpreted) 
incised within border lines on the front and back; while the shaft 
is adorned with interlaced network, or braiding of a triple cord. 
The Chapel contains a fine painting (attributed to Rubens) of the 
Flagellation of Our Lord; and in an adjoining vestry were seen 
some magnificent vestments, and the skull of Cuthbert Mayne, a 
priest, who was quartered at Launceston in the 16th century, and 
whose head was set on a pole at Wadebridge. 
Another drive of several miles, under Mr. W. E. Michell’s 
guidance, and the party arrived at Rialton; one of the para- 
mount manors in Domesday, and given by an Earl of Cornwall to 
the Prior and Canons of Bodmin. After the Dissolution of Re- 
ligious Houses, it descended to Mundy, then to Baron Godol- 
phin of Rialton, and afterwards to the Duke of Leeds; but it 
now forms part of the Duchy of Cornwall. The Manor-House was 
largely rebuilt by Thomas Vyvyan, the last Prior of Bodmin ; 
and its few remains, including the dungeon, carved shields and 
inscriptions, &c., existent in a farm-house and mill, were viewed 
with much interest. Built into a wall of one of the farm build- 
ings is an Inscribed Stone, which has been figured and described 
by Lysons and C. 8. Gilbert; and a good drawing of it, by Miss 
Annie Shilson, appeared in the Ilam Anastatie Society’s volume 
for 1871. The inscription has been deciphered, subject to correc- 
tion, as follows :-— 
BONE MIMOR— 
ILL—TRIBVN— 
The Rialton remains were described and explained by Rev. 
W. Iago; after which, the Rev. N. F. Chudleigh, vicar of St. 
Columb Minor, exhibited the parish church, described by Hals as, 
“according to its bigness, the finest, best-kept, pewed, or seated, 
that I know of in Cornwall”; but it now greatly needs restor- 
ation. In a roadside field, not very far from the church, stands a 
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