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 APPENDIX. DOLLY PENTEEATH, In Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall it is stated that the parish register of Paul, near Mousehole, contains the following entry. (The words in italics are put so by the writer of this.) "Dorothy Jeffery was buried Deer. 27. (1777)." On the south face of her monument, erected, not on her grave but in the churchyard wall, in 1860, there is this inscription. " Here lieth interred Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1778 * said to have been the last person who con- versed in the ancient Cornish, the peculiar language of this county from the earliest records till it expired in the eighteenth century, in this parish of St. Paul. This stone is erected by the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, in union with the llev. John Garrett, vicar of St. Paul, June 1860. "Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Exod., XX, 12. register states, she was buried in 1777, (see above) it is clear accord- ing to this that she was buried alive I ! which is absurd.
 * If Dolly, as the Prince has stated died in 1778 and, as the parish