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 308 AN ACCOUNT OF SOME MONUMENTAL pearaiice of two crosses, one before the name of the son, and the other before that of the father. It may however have been intended for a branch. Carew, in his " Survey of Corn- wall," gives the following interesting episode on this cross, or " grauedstone :" " In a highe way neere this toune (namely Eowey) there liet/i a big and long moore stone, contayning the remainder of certaine ingraued letters, purporting some memorable antiquity, as it shoulde seeme, but past ability of reading. Not many yeres sithence, a gentleman, dwelling not farre off, was persuaded, by some information or imagination, that treasure lay hidden under this stone : wherefore in a fair moone shine night, thither with certaine good fellowes he hyeth to dig vp : a working they fall, their labor shortneth, their hope increaseth, a pot of gold is the least of their ex- pectation. But see the chaunce ! In the midst of their toyl- ing, the skie gatherith cloudes the moone light is ouercast with darknesse, downe fals a mightie showre, vp riseth a blustering tempest, the thonder crackith, the lightning flash- ith : in conclusion, our money-seekers washed, in stead of loden; or loden with water in stead of yellow earth, and more afraid, then hurt, are forced to abandon their enter- prise, and seeke shelter of the next house they coulde get into*". Whether this procedith from a naturall accident, or a working of the diuell, I will not undertake to define. It may bee, God giueth him such power ouer those, who begin a matter, upon couetousnesse to gaine by extraordi- narie meanes and prosecute it with a wronge, in entring and breaking another man's land, withouten his leave, and direct the end thereof, to the prince's defrauding, whose pre- rogative challengith these casualties." This big long moore stone has long since been set up right again, and is now still to be seen near Castledour on the road to Fowey, about a mile out of that interesting little primitive town. The other incised slab of this character is one which has already been noticed in this Jom^nal^. It is the monument of " Isnioc Vitalis, the son of Torricus," which had long served the pm-pose of a gate post ; and is at present preserved ' A similar fate lias attended more tlKin philosopliers accouiit for this " chamice' this one party of the hunters of "yelinw as they may, I profess to relate only what earth." There are many well attested I believe to have happened in very many accounts of barrow hunters being thus cases. overtaken in the midst of their spoil, and Archaeol. Journal, vol. ii. p. 78. deservedly drenched, if not terrified. Let