under his head is a heaume surmounted with the Stourton crest, a demi-figure of a monk, the head covered with a cowl, brandishing a scourge of six knotted cords. He wears a close-fitting jupon with the edge escalloped, and a cingulum across the hips. The head-dress of the lady affords a good example of the crespine, or reticulated caul in which the hair was enclosed; and over this is thrown a coverchief. A portion of the inscription still remains, by which we learn that the date of the knight's death was 1404, and that the name of his wife was Maria. Mens' Aprilis An° dni M°. CCCC°. iiij. et Maria ux' cius quor Ame'.
Inscribed stone near Fowey.
The Rev. William Haslam, of St. Perran-zabuloe, communicated a sketch of an early inscribed memorial, which now stands on the left hand of the road, about a mile distant from Fowey. The only approach to that ancient town, as Mr. Haslam described it, is a narrow winding road with spaces or recesses cut out of the hedge, at intervals of 100 or 150 yards, to allow one cart to draw out of the track while another passes it. This stone was noticed by Leland, who gave a reading very different from that which has been proposed by Lluyd and Borlase[1]. It formerly stood near the four crossways, north of Fowey, and, when seen by Borlase, lay in a ditch in the way from that place to Castledôr. It is a rough slab of granite, measuring about 8 ft. above the level of the ground, about 1 ft. in width, and
- ↑ Leland, Itin. iii. 26; Borlase, p. 392; Moyle's Posthumous Works, i. 189.
