PAR— PELYNT his diaries we read (15th January, 1854): "Went to St. Paul's Church. Saw an ancient tomb with the inscription in Cornish at the N. end. Sat in a pew under a blaclc suit of armour belonging to the Godolphin family, with two swords." The epitaph which at- tracted his notice was this : — ' ' Bounas heb dueth Eu poes Karens wei tha pobl Bohodzhak Paull han Egles nei ". The words have been thus translated : — " Eternal life be his whose loving care Gave Paul an alms-house and the church repair ". Pelynt (5 m. W. of West Looe) has a church now dedicated to St. Mary, but formerly to St. Nonna or Nun, the mother of St. David ; her holy well is here, in fairly good condition — it must not be confounded with that at Alternon. The church, with a Dec. tower, has been much and not well restored. Equally renovated is Trelawne, the second seat of the famous Tre- lawnys ; their first was at Trelawne in Alternon, from which Sir Jonathan Trelawny migrated in 1600, bringing the name of his old estate with him. It was another Sir Jonathan whose name has travelled far and wide on the wings of a ballad-burthen — " And shall Trelawny die? — There's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why ". Trelawny was one of the " Seven Bishops," and there can be no doubt that this refrain, 203
