carrying out to the utmost the purposes for which his House was erected; and happily he was taken away, in 1533, from the Evil to Come, and the destruction of that in which his soul delighted. He was very fond of building-Amongst his works we may notice the spire which once stood on the Tower of his Church: Ryalton Priory, in S. Columb Minor: the south Aisle of Eglashagle Church: the Parsonage, at Wythill, &c. Over the entrance doorway of the latter are the arms of Vyvyan of Trelowarren one of the windows of this building contains the arms of Prior Thomas Vivian, of the See of Megara, of Bodmin Priory, and of King Henry VII.

THE PRIOR'S remains lie in S. Petroc's Church, under a noble altar tomb, displaying on its top a full length effigy of Prior Vyvyan in his Episcopal robes, with mitre and crozier, and with his hands clasped on his breast. Little Cherubim are fanning his head with their wings. There are niches in the sides with Saints, Crosses, &c, and the arms of the See of Megara in Achaia, Greece; (of which he was Bishop) viz.-In a field Gules, Three Human Thigh Bones, Saltirewise Or, or Proper the arms of England, France, and Ireland, and those of the Prior's Ancestors.

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THE inscription runs as follows:- "HIC TUmulatur VeNERABILIS PATER THOMAUS VIVIAN, MEGARENSIS EPISCOPUS; HUJUS DOMUS PRIOR, QUI OBIIT TERTIO DIE JUNII, Ano. Dni. M.D.XXXIII. CUJUS ANIME PROPICIETUR DEUS! AMEN," which being interpreted signifies:-"Here is buried THE VENERABLE FATHER, THOMAS VIVIAN, BISHOP OF MEGARA ; PRIOR OF THIS HOUSE, WHO DIED THE THIRD DAY OF JUNE, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1533, ON WHOSE SOUL MAY GOD HAVE MERCY, AMEN.."

After the dissolution the Prior's Church was converted into a parochial one, and the secular Church of Berry left to go to ruin its Tower still remains standing on a hill a little out of Bodmin; is was built in 1501. And now all that remains of this noble House is the Church and the bare name"Bodmin

Priory," by which a modern House, standing on its site, is distinguished. I have a copy of an ancient Document, in latin, giving an account of the removal of the Relics of S. Petroc from, and their final restoration to, the Priory of Bodmin.

THE following is a literal translation, "In the same year, (in the reign of King Henry II.) a certain Canon of the Abbacy of Bodmin, which is situated in the region of Cornwall; Martin by name immediately after the Epiphany of our LORD, secretly stole the body of S. Petroc, and flying with it, carried it across the sea, and bore it with him as far as the Abbacy of Saint Mevennus, situated in the region of Lesser Brittany. And when he had signified this to Roger, the Prior of Bodmin, and the canons serving GOD in that place, the aforesaid Prior, by the advice of his brethren, approached Henry, the Lord King of England, that by the aid of his power, they might recover the body of S. Petroc, which they had lost by theft. At their instance then, the aforesaid King yielded his aid, and commanded by his letters, Rollandus to cause without delay that that body should be restored. The command, therefore, of the King having been heard, the aforesaid Rollandus came with an armed and powerful band to the Abbacy of Saint Mevennus, and ordered that the Body should be restored. And when the Abbot, and the Monks of that place were unwilling to restore it, he added threats, swearing that unless it were quickly restored, he would drag it away by force. And when they heard this they were unwilling to incur the anger of the King of England, but restored that blessed body to the aforementioned Roger, the Prior of Bodmin on the Sunday at the end of Pente Cost! Verily on the Festival of S. S. Gervasius and Prothasus, Martyrs; viz., on the thirteenth day before the Kalends of July. And that sacred body was restored to them in all its entirety, and without any diminution, by the Abbot and Monks of the Church of Saint Mevennus, who sware over the relics in the same Church, that they would keep back no part of the body, and would restore the same body, without any alteration, and when this had beep

done, the afore mentioned Prior of Bodmin returning in joy into England, carried the body of the Blessed Petroc, deposited in an ivory shrine, as far as the city of Winchester. And when it had been brought into the King's presence, the King, having seen and venerated it, permitted the aforesaid Prior to return in peace with his Saint to his Abbay of Bodmin. "

IN THE" Valor Ecclesiasticus," time of Henry VIII; we find respecting Bodmin Priory: Spirtualia, things spiritual including oblations, &c.--and "Temporalia " things Temporal : the former amounted to £72 2s. the latter to £289 11s. 1d. There was formerly an Almshouse at the western end of the Town. Near the market place in olden days stood a house of Grey Friars, which was dissolved in the thirty seventh year of the reign of K. Henry VIII, and was granted to a man called William Abbot. But it was the Church's land, and brought no good to its new possessor, and in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth it was converted into a house of Corection.

AT THE village of S. Lawrence, about a mile from Bodmin, was S. Lawrence's Hospital for nineteen leprous people, two men and women, and a Priest. S. Lawrence was martyred by being broiled upon a gridiron. I have seen the ancient seal belonging to this hospital, and possess, an impression of it: it is in the form of a "vesica piscis," and contains a figure of S Lawrence under a niche and holding a book and a gridiron to signify the manner of his martyrdom. Beneath is a kneeling figure, and around the whole this inscription :-" S. X. SCI LAURENCII BODMONS DEPENPO." It is supposed that Bodmin was an Episcopal See, from the year 936 to the year 981, during which time seven Bishops sat at Bodmin. Their names are said to have been,-Athelstan the First, Conan, Ruydocus, Aldred the First, Brithurnus. Athelstan the Second and Wolphus are supposed to have been the sixth and seventh. In the year 981 the See was removed to S. Germans.

PETEKKIN, or Perkin Warbeck, landed in Cornwall in 1496, and assembled a considerable army at Bodmin. It is very

probable that he was the very Duke of York: two small skeletons were indeed found under the staircase of the Tower, but so many dire deeds have been committed there, that they cannot be proved to have been those of the two Princes: moreover many who had known the young Duke believed on him; the ridiculous confession which he was forced to sign contradicted itself, and his Mother who would surely have known her own son, was never allowed to see him.

IN 1549, there was a rebellion and Arundell, the leader was defeated by Lord Russell. Sir Anthony Kingston, after this defeat, was sent to discover and punish those who had escaped. He was very barbarous, and sly in discovering his victims. Among them was Mr. Boyer of Bodmin, who had been forced to join the sedition much against his will. To him Sir Anthony wrote and told him that he would come and dine at his house on a certain day; the Mayor was pleased at the proposal, and made great preparations.

ON THE appointed day, Sir Anthony came, and was well entertained by the Mayor. Just before dinner he told Boyer that a gallows must be got ready against after dinner as he was going to superintend an execution in the town. The Mayor got one erected, and after dinner told Sir Anthony that it was all ready, and conducted him to the spot; Sir Anthony asked the Mayor whether he considered it to be strong enough, Boyer replied in the affirmative. Then, said Kingston, "make haste and get up, for they are intended for you." 'Surely you don't mean what you say?" said the Mayor in a terrible fright. "Yes," said Sir Anthony, it can't be helped, for you have been a very seditious fellow. And he had him hung up straightway.

NEAR to Bodmin dwelt a miller, a very rebellious fellow. He had heard of the doings at the Mayor's, and telling his servant that he had business from home, instructed him, if any one asked for the miller, to say that himself was he. And,. sure enough, Sir Anthony came, and asked for the miller. The servant came forth and declared himself to be the person sought.

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Sir Anthony said to him, "How long have you kept this mill?” "These three years,” replied the man. Then, said Kingston to his followers, "seize him, and hang him to that tree." which the servant cried out, "I am not the miller! I am only the miller's man!" But Sir Anthony cried, "Stuff! As you told me, so I will treat you; if you are the miller you are a rebellious knave, but, if you are not the miller, you are a lying knave; so hang him, for he deserves to be hung either way." Then, some of the standers-by said that he was only the miller's but Kingston cried, "He couldn't serve his master better than by hanging for him." And so the miller's man was bung.

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CAREW tells us that there lived, in his time, at Bodmin, a Jack-of-all-trades, and so he must indeed have been, if Carew was rightly informed, for he tells us, "Mr. Veale, of Bodmin, is became skilful in well nigh all manner of handy.crafts: a carpenter, à joiner, a mill-wright, a free-mason, a clock-maker, a carver, a metal-founder, an architect; yea, a surgeon, physician, and an alchymist.

IT Now remains for me to notice what I have set down at the head of this Chapter-" Churches appropriated to Bodmiu Priory." The first on my list the Church of the Priory itself and has already been described. (2) S. Wenn, I have nothing to say about the Church, for with the exception of the Tower, it was rebuilt in 1825. There was formerly a Chapel and Holy well of S. Mary Magdalen in this Parish.

3. WITHIEL. The Parsonage here has been already described. In the east windows of the South Aisle of the Church are the arms of Prior Vivian, in stained glass. There is an ancient Cross at Withiel. 4. S. KEw. Here is a good Church, cheifly remarkable for its stained glass. In the east window of the south aisle, which is of five lights, is represented the genealogy of Jesse." This is called "the Jesse Window." It formerly belonged to Bodmin Church, but was purchased, we are told, at the sum of £1. 6s., and erected in S. Kew Church. In the East Win