Mr. W. H. Tregellas states that at the death of Sir John Percyvall, about 1504, his widow retired to her native place; but Carew’s words do not appear to justify this inference, and it is stated in the Stocken MSS. in the Guildhall Library that she was buried at St. Mary Woolnoth. Mr. Tregellas does not appear to have been able to trace the will; but Lysons, whose account was published in 1814, says definitely that the will was dated 1512, and this statement has been accepted by subsequent writers. By this will she bequeathed to her brother, John Bonaventer, £20; she made her cousin, John Dinham, who had married her sister’s daughter, residuary legatee, and committed to his discretion the chantry and grammar school founded in her lifetime; she gave a little gilt goblet, having a blue flower in the bottom, to the Vicar of Liskeard, to the intent that he should pray for her soul; and towards the building of the tower of St. Stephen’s by Launceston she left 20 marks. Robert Hunt, in his “Popular Romances of the West of England,” says that Berry Comb, in Jacobstow, was once the residence of Thomasine, and was given at her death to the poor of Week St. Mary. The “Parochial History of Cornwall” gives 1530 as the approximate date of her death. APPENDIX H (pp. 161-62) EPITAPHS OF RUDDLE AND BLIGH The following is extracted from a little book entitled “Some Account of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Launceston,” by S. R. Pattison, 1852:-- “Adjoining is a marble monument, in memory of Sarah, the wife of the Rev. John Ruddle, interred near this place, in 1667. Below the family arms is the following epitaph, entitled “The Husband’s Valediction:”-- “Blest soul, since thou art fled into the slumbers of the dead, Why should mine eyes Let fall unfruitful tears, the offspring of despair and fears, To interrupt thine obsequies. No no, I won’t lament to see thy day of trouble spent; But since thou art gone, Farewell! sleep, take thy rest, upon a better Husband’s breast, Until the resurrection.” A stately monument of fine variegated marble, in the south aisle, is charged with the arms of Bligh, and the following Latin inscription:-- “Juxta hoc marmor jacet Carolus Bligh, Gen. Aldermanus et hujus municipii sæpius Prætor Qui cum sibe satis, suis parum diu vixerat Pietate plenus obiit A.D. 1716, Die 8bris 2do Hunc jam Æternitatem inhians Iudith uxor 27 Maii An. Dni. 1717mo secuta est.” The Botathen Ghost story, as told by “the Rev. Mr. Ruddell” himself, occupies five pages of C. S. Gilbert’s “History Survey of Cornwall, 1817” (vol. i. pp. 115-119). Gilbert does not mention how he came by it. Hawker’s version is obviously a paraphrase of this, with some embellishments of his own. APPENDIX J (p. 185) MICHAEL SCOTT AND EILDON HILL