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INTRODUCTION 43 Cornwall is not specially distinguished for its MONUMENTAL REMAINS other than those in brass. Sepulchral slabs of the 13th cent., with Norman- French marginal inscriptions, occur at Bodmin, St. Breock, St. Buryan, Little Petherick, and St. Merryn. At Ruan-Lanyhorne there is the 13th cent, semi-effigy of an ecclesiastic. There are a few more or less mutilated early stone effigies yet extant, namely, in the churches of Botus Fleming, St. Breward, Lansallos, St. Mawgan-in-Meneage, and Stratton. At Egloskerry and St. Teath are effigies of 14th cent, laymen; at Duloe a 15th cent, armoured effigy ; at Callington a noble one of 1503 ; and at Bodmin the fine monument of Prior Vyvyan, 1 533- Two 17th cent, kneeling effigies are on a tomb at St. Dominic. There are various mural kneeling effigies of later date, as at Davidstow, St. Mellion, Minster, St. Mylor, and St. Stephen-by-Saltash. At Truro is the costly but unsightly monument of John Roberts and his wife, 1614, with semi-recum- bent effigies. There is an incised slab effigy at Helland, 1500, and another at South Hill, 1507. The towering wooden monument in Lanreath church, with diminutive effigies, erected in 1623, is without a known parallel. But the special charac- teristic of the later monuments of Cornwall is the use of slabs of slate within the churches, though the stupi- dity of certain church u restorers " has ejected them into the churchyard, or even brought about their destruction. Viewed rightly, these slate memorials