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16. Three couplets of verse, and a short piece of prose from J. Boson's Duchess of Cornwall's Progress. In the Borlase MS. Unpublished.

17. Prophecy, attributed to Merlin, of the burning of Paul, Penzance, and Newlyn. Two lines. In the Borlase MS., and often printed in Cornish histories and guide-books.

18. Elegy on the death of James Jenkin of Alverton. Four verses of three lines each, by John Boson, 17 Feb. 17 11/12. In the Gwavas MS. Unpublished.

Proverbs, Mottoes, and Maxims.

1. From Scawen. Fourteen proverbs. In the Borlase MS.; printed in the edition of Tonkin's abridgment of Scawen's Antiquities Cornu-Britannick, 1777, and in Davies Gilbert's History, and in his edition of the Poem of the Passion. Also in R. I. C. Journal, 1866, with sixteen others from the Borlase MS.

2. Mottoes of the families of Gwavas, Harris of Hayne,^[1] Glynne, Tonkin, Godolphin, Boscawen, Polwhele, Noye, and Willyams of Carnanton. All except those of Glynne, Noye, and Willyams are printed in Pryce. All but Glynne and Willyams occur in Davies Gilbert's edition of Jordan's Creation, and the Willyams motto, though it occurs as a Cornish phrase in Pryce's preface and in the Gwavas and Tonkin MSS., is only found as a motto in pedigree books and on the sign-board of the inn in Mawgan Churchtown. The Glynne 'motto, "Dre weres agan Dew" (Through the help of our God), is given, with an incorrect translation, in Mr. Hobson Matthews's History.

1. The motto of Harris of Hayne, "Car Dew dres puk tra" is mentioned in Boson's Nebbaz Gerrtau, and is part of stanza 23 of the Poem of the Passion.