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 340 In going by the " Church road " from Mousehole to Paul, the south east angle of Paul churchyard is first reached on the right hand. Close inside the churchyard wall there, next the "Church road," and lengthways between two trees, lies the grave with nothing to mark its place (1882). Close to the west end of the grave is the gate opening into the path which leads directly from the " Church road" to the square headed chancel door in the south side of the Church. Thirteen or fourteen paces more to the west of this (chancel) gate stands the misplaced memorial to Dolly by the Prince L. L. Bonaparte. The long inscription (already given) faces the road, and on the north side of the stone is a shorter inscription facing the churchyard, in these words — " Dorothy Pentreath who conversed in ancient Cornish, died 1778. This stone is erected by Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte and the Rev. John Garrett, I860.'' There is good evidence notwithstanding the confusion of dates, that Dolly Pentreath was aged 102 when she died in 1777, (not 1778 as on the present monument). There seems no reason to doubt that an epitaph in ancient Cornish, and a translation of the same into English was written, and which is referred to by Drew, Pol whole, and others, but there is no evidence to prove that such an epitaph was ever inscribed on stone, and placed upon Dolly's grave at or about the time of her burial. If we are to believe writers who lived near the time of the events which they recorded, then Dolly Pentreath was the Ust who spoke Cornish as her native tonj^ue, for