234 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
In addition there are a collection of proverbs and motives in 
what is called " Pryce's Grammar." 
Such are the remains of the literature of the language already 
printed; but there are some pieces in MS. which, if the "Cornish 
MS. Society " should become a fact, may be yet published. The 
largest of these is a journey of the Duchess of Cornwall in Cornish. 
You may, however, well imagine that from these literary remains 
something may be gathered as to the general character of the 
language. The drama of the " Berinans Meriasek is larger than 
most of Shakspere's plays ; I should say as long as both parts of 
" King Henry IV." The scriptural dramas nearly fill, with their 
translation, two good-sized volumes in Mr. Morris's edition. "The 
Creacon of Jordan" fills a thin volume in Mr. Stokes's edition with 
its translation, and is a drama of fair length. 
In spite, however, of this quantity of matter there are numbers 
of words doubtless which have been lost. The Rev. B. Williams's 
splendid Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum, a triumph of industry and 
learning, was unfortunately published too early ; i.e. before the 
discovery of the "Berinans Meriasek." It is not complete either 
in not admitting the words which have lingered or become im- 
bedded in the Cornish dialect. It is, in fact, merely a dictionary 
of literary Cornish as it was known ten years ago, but not of the 
whole remains of the language. A new edition or a supplement is 
greatly needed ; for the scriptural dramas and the epic of " Mount 
Calvary," with such relics as Pryce and Lhuyd published, are by 
no means the whole of the debris of the dead language which are 
available to the enquirer. A supplement is needed to represent the 
words of the "Berinans Meriasek" and the examination of the 
Celtic remains in the living Cornish dialect, or the traditions of 
them remembered by the old people. As to the grammar, how- 
ever, I think Mr. Norris and Zeuss had sufficient data on which to 
build their schemes. 
JUDGES AND ADVOCATES. 
BY MR. HAMILTON WHITEFORD. 
(Read December 18th, 1879.) 
