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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17958	The survey of Cornvvall. Written by Richard Carew of Antonie, Esquire	Carew, Richard, 1555-1620.	1602 (1602)	STC 4615; ESTC S107479	166,204	339

the West Helston For the Hundreds of East Kellington of West Laureath of Trig Bodmyn of Lesnewith Camelford of Stratton that towne of Powder Grampond of Pider S. Columbs of Kerier Helston of Penwith Pensants East H. hath parishes 30. corporations 2. West H. parishes 19. corporations 2. Trig Lesnewith Stratton Powder Pider Kerier Penwith Corporations are priuiledged with the administration of iustice within their liberties more or lesse according to the purport of their Charter Such are Saltash Launceston Liskerd Eastloo Westloo Bodmyn Camelford Lostwithiel Padstowe Grampond Truro Helston Perin The Maiors and Recorders in some of these are Iustices of the peace for their owne limits and welneere all of them haue large exemptions and iurisdictions A garment in diuers mens opinions ouer-rich and wide for many of their wearish and ill-disposed bodies They alleadge for themselues that speedy iustice is administred in their townes and that it saueth great expences incident to assize trials which poore Artificers cannot vndergoe But the other answere that these trials are often poasted on with more haste then good speed while an ignorant fellow of a sowter becomes a magistrate takes vpon him peremptory iudgement in debts and controuersies great and doubtfull Againe the neernesse of commencing their suits draweth on more expences then the shortnes of tryals cutteth off whereas longer respit would make way to deliberation and deliberation open the doore to reason which by the fumes arising from cholers boyling heat is much obscured Thus dooth the oportunity inure them to vexation vexation begetteth charges and charge hatcheth pouerty which pouerty accompanied with idlenes for they cannot follow law and worke seeketh not to releeue it selfe by industry but by subtilty wherethrough they become altogether depraued in body goods and minde Adde hereunto that the Maior exercising his office but during one yeere for the first halfe thereof is commonly to learne what he ought to doe in the other halfe feeling his authoritie to wane maketh friends of that Mammon serueth others turnes to be requited with the like borrowing from iustice what hee may lend to his purse or complices for as it hath bene well sayd He cannot long be good that knowes not why he is good They conclude how from these imperfect associations there spring pride amongst themselues disdayne at their neighbours and Monopolies against the Common-wealth This inuectiue is somewhat deeply steeped in gall must therefore bee interpred not of all but the worst Surely for mine owne part I am of opinion that how cōmodious soeuer this iurisdiction may proue amongst themselues it falleth out sundry times very distastefull and iniurious towards strangers and strangers they reckon all that are not Burgesses Now let such a one bee arrested within their corporatiōs no sureties but townsmen can finde acceptance be his behauiour neuer so honest his cause neuer so iust his calling neuer so regardfull his ability neuer so sufficient yet if he haue none acquaintance in the towne if the action brought carry a shew of waight if the bringer be a man of sway in or neere the towne if any other townsman of the higher sort beare him an old grudge he must be contented to fret the colde yrons with his legges and his heart with griefe for what one amongst them will procure an euerlasting enemy at his doore by becomming surety for a party in whō he possesseth none or little interest The ancients vsed to grace their Cities with seuerall titles as Numantia bellicosa Thebae superbae Corinthus ornata Athenae doctae Hierusalem sancta Carthago emula c. and the present Italians doe the like touching theirs as Roma santa Venetia ricca Florenza bella Napoli gentile Ferrara ciuile Bologna grassa Rauenna antiqua c. In an imitation whereof some of the idle disposed Cornish men nicke their townes with by-words as The good fellowship of Padstowe Pride of Truro Gallants of Foy c. The Clarke of the markets office hath beene heretofore so abused by his deputies to their priuate gaine that the same is tainted with a kinde of discredit which notwithstanding being rightly duly executed would work a reformation of many disorders and a great good to the Common-wealth Foure Coroners chosen by the voyces of the freeholders do serue the shire who for the present are Bligh Tub Trenance and Bastard The Vice-admiralty is exercised by M. Charles Trenanion a Gentleman through his vertue as free from greedinesse as through his faire liuely hood farre from needinesse and by daily experience giuing proofe that a minde valewing his reputation at the due price will easily repute all dishonest gaine much inferiour thereunto that in conuersing with the worst sort of people which his office oftētimes enforceth he can no more be disgraced then the Sunne beames by shining vpon a dunghill will be blemished I haue here set downe the names of those Commissioners for the peace who at this present make their ordinary residēce in Corn. as they stād placed in the Cōmission where the priority is mostly deferred to antiquity Q. Fra. Godolphin M. 1. Q. Nic. Parker M. 2. Q. Iona. Trelawney M. 3. Q. Reg. Mohun M. 4 Q. P. Petrus Edgecōb 5. Q. Ric. Carew de Anth. 6 Q. Bern. Greinuile 7. Q. Antonius Rowse 8. Petrus Courtney 9. Q. Tho. Chiuerton 10. Q. Christ. Harris 11. Io. Arund de Trerise 12. Th. Arun. de Taluerne 13 Q. Nic. Prideaux 14. Q. Hannibal Viuian 15. Carolus Treuanion 16. Thomas S. Aubin 17. Q. Rob. Moyle 18. Q. Ed. Hancock 19 Tristramus Arscot 20. Thomas Lower 21. W. Treffry de Fowey 22. Iohannes Henser 23. Q. Willi. Wray 24. Georgius Kekiwiche 25. Q. Arth. Harris 26. Io. Harris de Lansre 27. Q. Degor Chamons 28. Iohannes Trefusis 29. Otwel Hill 30. Their ordinary vse was to begin the quarter Sessions for the East halfe of the Shire on the Tuesdayes and VVednesdayes at Bodmyn and to adiourne the same for the West halfe to be ended at Truro the Friday and Saterday following leauing one dayes space for riding betweene But about twenty yeres sithence the Easterne Iustices making the greatest number and in this separation hauing farthest to ride when they were disposed to attend both places either in regard of their ease or vpon scruple of conscience or for both together called into question whether this custome were as warrantable by right as it was pleadable by prescription and whether it as much aduanced the administration of iustice as it eased the trauell of the people And thereupon they began to appoynt the intire Sessions at either place one after another This was sometimes performed and sometimes broken by the Westerne Iustices so as seuerall and contrary precepts of summons were directed to the Sheriffe with the great vncertaynty ill example and trouble of the Countrey It hapned that one newly associated and not yet seasoned with either humour made this motion for a reconcilement viz. that