Too Frequent

Late morning I attended the funeral of the wife of one of our Shipmates from The Falmouth Royal Naval Association. These are always sad occasions but we support our friends in the best way we know how. The service was followed by an interment at Falmouth Cemetery then the ‘wake’ at the rugby club, both places which are familiar to me, I walked between venues, a decision I regretted when the blisters appeared.
In the evening I rowed again with Epic in the Carrick Roads Races and again I enjoyed it. I needed to get a key cut so arrived at the boatyard from a different direction and noticed this stone.

Glasney College founded in 1265 at Penryn was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious institutions.
However King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries signalled the end of the big Cornish priories, but as a chantry church Glasney survived until 1548, when it suffered the same fate.
The smashing and looting of the Cornish college at Glasney brought an end to the formal scholarship that helped sustain the Cornish language and the Cornish cultural identity, and played a significant part in fomenting the opposition to cultural 'reforms' that led to the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.

The granite taken from the college was used to form and build King Henry VIII's fort at Pendennis castle.