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Rh 2. On John Keigwin, by John Boson, 1715. In the Gwavas MS. Four lines.

3. On Capt. Stephen Hutchens, in Paul Church, 1709. The only Cornish inscription in any church. Probably by John Boson. Two lines. Frequently printed in guide-books, etc.

4. On William Gwavas, by himself. In the Gwavas MS., and in Pryce, Polwhele, and Davies Gilbert. Partly in English. These four are also in the Borlase MS., and are printed in the R. I. C. Journal, 1866.

5. On Dolly Pentreath, by Tompson of Truro, engineer. Printed by Polwhele, and later in Blight's Week at the Land's End, and other guide-books. A variant occurs in John Skinner's Journal of a Tour in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, 1797, in Add. MS. 28,793, f. 62, in the British Museum.

Letters.

1. William Gwavas to Oliver Pender, 11th August 1711. Partly in Cornish.

2. Oliver Pender to W. Gwavas, 22nd August 1711. Mostly in Cornish.

3. John Boson to W. Gwavas, 5th April 1710. Nearly all in Cornish.

4. An unsigned letter, including a version of the "Old Hundredth." Partly in rhyme.

5. Note, addressed apparently to one going to America, by William Gwavas, 1710, on the back of a copy of the Creed in Cornish.

These five are in the Gwavas MS., and have never been printed.

6. Letter of William Bodenor to the Honble. Daines Barrington, 3rd July 1776. Printed in Archæologia (vol. v., 1779), in "Uncle Jan Treenoodle's" Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialects, 1846; in a paper