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CORNWALL with other lines now forgotten, really circulated from mouth to mouth throughout Cornwall during the agitation of that memorable trial. He was not the Cornishmen's own bishop, for his diocese was Bristol ; but the fact that he was a Trelawny was enough to set all Corn- wall aflame. The ballad as at present existing was the production of R. S. Hawker, but many, including Scott and Macaulay, were deceived into thinking it a genuine song of the period. The crozier of this bishop is preserved in the church, in a restored condition ; the original was injured and partly destroyed by lightning. Parts of Trelawne House are of the fifteenth century ; it is supposed to have been built by Lord Bonville, of the Devon Bonvilles, to whom it passed from the Bodrugans and Champer- nownes. There are some good pictures. At Tregarrick are memories of the Winslades and Bullers. Readers should turn to Mrs. Bray's novel, Tre/au'uy oJ'Trelazcnc. Pen is a very common prefix to place-names in Cornwall, as in Wales, and always signifies headland or point. In Scotland it is Ben, and signifies hill more often than headland ; we have the same root on the Continent, in Apennine. The Goidelic form of the word is hen. Pencari'ow (3* m. N. of Bodmin) has been the seat of the Molesworths since Elizabeth ; it is one of the finest seats in Cornwall. The house, rebuilt in the eighteenth century, contains some good pictures. Pencarrow is pcncaerau, the hill of camps. There are two 204