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well as those of other eras. The papers on Cornish Churches, on the Polychromy of Swedish Churches in the Middle Ages, and on the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, as well as various others, have, he knows, been read in many quarters with extreme interest; and he has had the advantage of receiving an account of the great Discoveries in Orkney direct from the gentleman at whose charge they were made, whilst some of the most competent Runologists have chosen his pages as the medium for communicating with the learned world on the subject. It is indeed with pride that he alludes to the many distinguished men who are enrolled among his Correspondents. Some, whose names in compliance with their own wish do not appear, keep him correctly informed as to the Proceedings of the various Learned Societies; and relatives or friends constantly supply him with Obituaries of all the most prominent persons as they in turn pass away. This is the co-operation that he has so long experienced, and with which he trusts he shall long be favoured.

In consequence of the miscarriage of an additional proof-sheet, some inaccuracies appear in the Memoir of Bishop Mackenzie, at pp. 492-494, which may be thus briefly corrected. The name of the deceased was "Charles Frederic," not "Charles Frazer;" his age was 35, not 36, at the time of his death; and the date of his sailing for the Zambesi was Jan, 12, not Jan. 6, 1861.

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

CORNISH CHURCHES :—

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South Doorway, Cury Church

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Hagioscope and Exterior of Low Side Window, Cury.

Plan of Hagioscope, Cury.

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Gunwalloe Church

Fragment of Font, Gunwalloe

Crucifix and Corbel-head, Mullion Tower

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Stoup, Bench-end, and Arms of the Passion, Mullion
Carving on the Altar, Mullion

Capital and Base of Pier, St. Keverne Church

Plan of St. Keverne Church

Shields on Bench-ends, St. Keverne

Plan of Manaccan Church .

Piscina in Transept and Interior of Chancel, Manaccan

South-east View of Chancel and Transept, Manaccan.
South Doorway, Manaccan

Hagioscope, St. Mawgan

Effigies, St. Mawgan .

Shields on Tower, and Keystone, Tower Window, St. Mawgan
Keystone of Tower-arch and Jamb of Tower Door, St. Mawgan
The Church of St. Antony in Kirrier.

Window of Chancel and East Window of Aisle, St. Antony
Font, St. Antony

Plan of Landewednack Church

Exterior of Low Side Window, Landewednack

Boss on Porch, Landewednack

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South Doorway, Landewednack.
Shield on North and South Bells, Landewednack
Shields on the Bell St. Nicholas, Landewednack.
Font and Inscription on the Font, Landewednack
Window in South Aisle, St. Ruan Major Church.
Carvings on Roodscreen, St. Ruan Major

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Triangular Notching, and Plan of St. Ruan Major Church
Openings at Junction of Chancel and Nave, St. Ruan Major
Tower of St. Ruan Major

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Roof of the Temple, and Water-spout, Dendera.
Temples cut in the Rock, Silsilis

Two Crosses and Recessed Arch at Philæ.

RICKMAN'S ARCHITECTURE :

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Plan and North Elevation of Brixworth Church
Bradford-on-Avon Church, Wiltshire .

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St. Nicholas Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Inside of the
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OBITUARY.-Earl Canning, 100; Lord Willoughby de Broke-Sir James Doughty-
Tichborne, Bart.-Sir Benjamin Hawes, K.C.B., 101; The Duke de San Miguel,
103; The Very Rev. J. H. Cotton, 105; The Rev. Henry Penneck, M.A., 106;
Dr. Joseph Wolff, 107; Charles Parker, Esq., F.S.A., 109; Richard Wharton
Duff, Esq...

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NOTICE. SYLVANUS URBAN requests his Friends to observe that Reports, Correspondence, Books for Review, announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, &c., received after the 20th instant, cannot be attended to until the following Month.

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THOS. BARTON.

Threxton-house, near Watton,

June 12th, 1862. [Some account of this volume will be found in the "Autobiography of Sylvanus Urban," in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for Feb. 1857, p. 152.] DEED OF GIFT TO THE CHURCH

OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. MR. URBAN,-I wish to make a remark on the grant to the abbey of St. Michael's Mount, a copy of which appears in your number for the present month, (p. 747). St. Michael's Mount "in periculo maris" is not the Cornish Mount, but Mont St. Michel in Normandy; the priory at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, was attached to the Abbey at Mont St. Michel until the for

feiture of alien priories. The document of which Mr. Barton sends a copy is not an original grant, but a confirmation, as Bishop Marshall in the twelfth year of his episcopate (about A.D. 1205) granted the church of Otterton and other churches to the monks of St. Michael. (See the grant in Dr. Oliver's Monasticon Exon., p. 253.)—I am, &c. LEON H. COURTNEY.

2, New-square, Lincoln's Inn,
June 18th, 1862.

[In Mr. Barton's letter, as above, for "Bremer," read "Brewer."]

MEANING OF THE WORD
"TORCHER.'

MR. URBAN,-In Turner's "Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages," vol. i. p. 25, note, it is asserted by (I presume) the intelligent editor, that "the signification of the word ' 'torcher' is obscure." But it is still quite common to speak of torching slates or tiles; and by this is meant plastering the under face of them, so as to secure the joints with plastering-mortar. The word 'torch' in this sense evidently comes from the French torcher, to wipe' or 'rub over.' Torchon is a rubber; torchon de paille a handful of straw, such as may be used either in rubbing down a horse or else in thatching a house. Cotgrave, Miege, and Sobrino agree in their definitions of torcher and torchon

I hope on some future occasion to furnish you with a list of several words which, like torcher,' in our sense of it, have no place in any so-called dictionary of the English language.—I am, &c. JAMES RAWSON.

Lichfield, June, 1862.

Press of other matter obliges us to keep over Documents, Correspondence and Reviews, which are in type.

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