12 Paul, in which parish, Mousehole, the place of her residence is situated. Her epitaph is both in Cornish and English, in both of which languages as it is a literary curiosity, it is here inserted." CORNISH.
- Coth Doll Pentreath cans ha Deau ;
Marow ha kledyz ed Paul plea : — Na ed an Egloz, gan pobel bras, Bes ed Egioz-hay coth Dolly es. ENGLISH.
- Old Doll Pentreaih, one hundred ag'd and two ;
Deceas'd, and buried in Paul parish too : — Not in the church, with pec^)le great and high, But in the church-yard doth old Dolly lie ! It is evident from there being an epitaph on Dolly Pentreath, that the Cornish language in A.D. 1788 was known, and could still be written. Polwhele says, " the author of these verses, of which I have given a literal translation, is a Mr. Tomson a native of Truro, and by profession an engineer." The epitaph was translated by a Mr. Collins, who gave it to Mr. Polwhele. In July, 1776, ^^Mr. Barrington upon more minute enquiry," presented a letter to the Society of Antiquaries written both in Cornish, and English, by William Bodener, a fisherman of Mousehole. This fisherman asserted that there were still four or five persons in Mousehole who could talk Cornish.
- Although this epitaph was written as described there is no
present proof that any inscribed stone was ever placed on Dolly's grave. The present monument is modern. For Jeffery, Dorothy, see Appendix,
