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26 Sundry Cornish writings, by W. Gwavas, dated 1731; pp. 156-65, 167-68. Monumental inscription to be put on my tomb, dated 16th September, 1719; Wm. Gwavas, parish of Sithney, son and heir of Will Gwavas; p. 166. Mr. William Gwavas was the son of William Gwavas, and was born in 1676. He became a barrister of the Middle Temple, where he for some time resided in Brick- court. He was impropriator or lay vicar of Paul, and in that capacity had various disputes with the fishermen of that parish respecting the tything of fish. A printed document referring to this matter, a copy of which is now in the possession of Mr. Henry Williams, of the Mount's Bay Bank, Penzance, bears the following title, ^^ Private case between William Gwavas and William Kelynack, and 116 parishioners and fishermen, relating to the right of tything fish. An appeal before the House of Lords, 1730, fol. Privately printed." Some time ago there was pub- lished " Some observations on the Eev. E. WilHams's preface to his Lexicon, by Prince L. L. Bonaparte [London, May, 1865,] s.sh., 4to." This work contains '*A copy of a letter from the Eev. (sic) W. Gwavas to T. Tonkin," dated Penzance, 25th Jan., 1732, and is, as far as we know, the only other document referring to Mr. Gwavas besides those already mentioned. Some of Mr. Gwavas's Cornish writings have been printed by Borlase, Pryce, and Pol- whele. Mr. Gwavas died in 1741, and was buried at Paul, on the 9th Jan. in that year." In 1865, was published the Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum by the Eev. Eobt. Williams, M.A. This dictionary of the