meant Merlyn Ara Lesâ—â—y Pawle Pensanz ha Newlyn Not farre from the lands ende there is a little village called Trebegean in English The towne of the Giants graue neere whereunto and within memory as I haue beene informed certayne workemen searching for Tynne discouered a long square vault which contayned the bones of an excessiue bigge carkas and verified this Etimology of the name At Saint Buriens a parish of great circuit and like benefit to the Incumbent King Athelstane accomplished his vowe in founding a Colledge of Priests what time he had conquered the Sillane Ilands Chiwarton signifyeth a house on the greene lay and a Castle on a greene hill is giuen by the Gent. of that name who in a quiet single life maketh no farther vse of his knowledge gotten in the lawes during his younger age or that experience wherewith a long course of yeeres hath sithence enriched him then may tend sine lucro to the aduauncement of publike iustice or sine strepitu to the aduisement of his priuate acquaintance Hee beareth A. a Castle S. Standing on a hill V. Sundry other Gentlemen people that remote quarter as Lauelis c. touching whom I must plead non sum informatus Diogenes after he had tired his Scholers with a long Lecture finding at last the voyde paper Bee glad my friends quoth hee wee are come to harbour With the like comfort in an vnlike resemblance I will refresh you who haue vouchsafed to trauaile in the rugged and wearysome path of mine ill-pleasing stile that now your iourny endeth with the land to whose Promontory by Pomp. Mela called Bolerium by Diodorus Velerium by Volaterane Helenium by the Cornish Pedn an laaz and by the English The lands end because we are arriued I will heere sit mee downe and rest Deo gloria mihi gratia 1602. April 23. Corrections FOlio 9. a. lin 13. read Lanine Fol. 10. lin 28. read Sic. Fol. 15. a. l. 5. ere Fol. 16. a. l. 27. certainly Fol. 17. b. l. 28 Gentleman ibid. l. 30. appeale fol. 18. b. l. 12. expected fol. 19. a. l. 10. canding fol. 20. b. l. 28. may fol. 21. a. l. 17. an fol. 23. a. l. 17. Kerier fol. 25. a. l. 16. dieting ibid. b. l. 1. affect fol. 32. a. l. 8. Dories fol. 33. a. l. 4. celler ibid. b. l. 11. foreclosing fol. 53. b. l. 22. of which fol. 55. a. l. 6. Bonithon and l. 20. Carminow ibid. b. l. 2. Tedna ibid. l. 22. guiddn fol. 56. a. l. 8. Pedn fol. 61. b. l. 28. Trerice fol. 66. b. l. 11. leaue out of straw fol. 67. b. l. 15. siluer fol. 68. a. l. 17. breeder ibid. l. 26. vnpleasing fol. 75. a. l. 32. from him ibid. b. l. 22. Peluianders fol. 76. a. l. 19. fore-hip ibid. b. l. 2. Circumforanei fol. 77. a. l. 2. appannage fol. 80. a. l. 29. Newelm fol. 82. b. l. 1. entrusted ibid. l. 16. entrusted fol. 84. b. l. 22. ventings fol. 87. a. l. 25. interpreted fol. 88. a. l. 18. Hender fol. 98. a. l. 7. interlaced fol. 100. b. l. 22. third and l. 23. as fol. 106. b. l. 4. net becomes fol. 110. a. l. 24. Saultier ibid. b. l. 21. Lineth fol. 111. a. l. 7. eie fol. 112. a. l. 28. faire fol. 116. b. l. 19. Trerice fol. 117. b. l. 10. pearced and l. 11. segreant and l. 30. strata fol. 118. a. l. 14. Treuenner fol. 122. b. l. 18. Cambala fol. 127. b. l. 3. tripped The Table of the first Booke THe Suruey of Cornwal coÌ„taineth a description generall in the first booke reporting her Accidents Elements Inhabitants THe Suruey of Cornwal coÌ„taineth a description Special in the 2. book containing matters Topographical Historicall Accidents wherein are deliuered the name shape Fol. 1. Climat 2. The quantitie length and breadth ibid. Borders ibid. Commodities of the situation 3. Discommodities 4. Temperature 5. Elements Earth aboue forme qualitie 5. Things of life growing and feeling Earth vnder Mynerals 6. Precious Diamonds Pearle and Agats 7. Water fresh springs riuers ponds 26. Therein the fish 28. The taking 30. Sea things liuelesse liuing fish foule Things of life growing Mats 18. Hearbs 19. Corne dressing ibid. kindes 20. Trees for fruit ibid. Fewel timber 21. Things of life feeling Wormes 21. Beastes Venery 22. meat 23. vse 24. Birds ibid. Minerals Stones for walling windowes couering pauing lyme 6. Mettals Tynne 7. Copper 6. Siluer and Gold 7. Tynne-works Kindes finding 8. Colour bignesse 10. Working expressing the persons Aduenturers ibid. Captaine ibid. Labourers ibid. Maner tooles ibid. Loose earth rockes 11. Conueyance by water engines Addits ibid. Tynne-dressing Breaking stamping drying crazing washing ibid. Blowing 12. Iurisdiction Charter 16. Officers supreme L. Warden Vice-warden 17. Ioterior Stewards Gaylour 18. Iuries great petty ibid. Witnesses ibid. Orders Sharing 12. Places Wastrel Seuerall 13. Bounds doales measure ibid. Coynage in time 13. Post 14. and their places ibid. times ibid. Officers ibid. Price by free sale Preemption 17. Vsury in Tynne black white 15. Sea things liuelesse Briny Salt-mils Ilands hauens 26. Sand Orewoods Shels and Nuts Shipping 27. Sea things liuing Fish partaker of the fresh 28. Therein the fashion shelly flat round 30. Within hauen 29. Their taking generall and particular 30. Vpon the coast 31. Sauing and venting 33. Foule eatable not eatable 35. Inhabitants estate reall Priuate grounds houses 36. Entercourse bridges high wayes 53. Traffike markets fayres ibid. Wayghts and measures 54. Inhabitants estate personall Names 54. Language 55. Number 57. Disposition ancient ibid. Disposition later of mindes holinesse 58. Sciences Diuines ibid. Ciuilians 59. Phisicians 60. Statemen Martiall Free schooles 61. Mechanicall 62. Disposition later of bodies strength ibid. Actiuity health 63. Degrees Nobility and Gentlemen ibid. Townsmen 65. Husbandmen 66. Poore 67. Recreations Feasts Saints 69. Haruest Church-ale 68. Pastimes of the minde songs 72. Guaries 71. Pastimes of the body shooting 72. Hurling to goales 73. Hurling to countrey 74. Wrastling 75. Games 76. Gouernment as an entire State Gouernours ibid. Royalties 79. Gouernment as a part of the Realme Spiritual Arch-bishop Bishop Arch-deacon 82. Peculiars 81. Gouernment as a part of the Realme Temporall Martiall Commaunders 83. Martiall Forces ibid. Orders Forts 84. Beacons Poasts 85. Ciuill Magistrates Iudges 89. Iustices 88. Vice-admirall Coroners Clarke of the market 87. Corporations 86. Parliaments 90. Ciuill Ministers Constables Baylifs 85. Gaylour 90. Limits Hundreds Franchises parishes 86. Proportions places to meete rates ibid. The end of the first Table The Table of the second Booke COrnwall in generall 96. East Hundred 98 Topographicall Plymmouth hauen 98. Rame head ibid. Causam bay ibid. S. Nicholas Iland 99. The bridge ibid. Mount-Edgecumb ibid. West Stonehouse 100. Hamose ibid. Milbrook 101. Insworke ibid. Antony 102. Lyner riuer ibid. Saltwater pond 104. Banqueting house 107. Beggers Iland ibid. Sheuiock 108. Chrasthole ibid. S. Germanes ibid. Cuddenbeake 109. Seaton 110. Wotton ibid. Trematon Castle 111. Saltash 112. Ash torre
Birds they haue Lynnets Goldfinches Ruddockes Canarie birds Blacke-birds Thrushes and diuers other but of Nightingals few or none at all whether through some naturall antipathie betweene them and the foyle as Plinie writeth that Crete sostereth not any Owles nor Rhodes Eagles nor Larius lacus in Italy Storkes or rather for that the Country is generally bare of couert and woods which they effect I leaue to be discussed by others Not long sithence there came a flocke of Birds into Cornwall about Haruest season in bignesse not much exceeding a Sparrow which made a foule spoyle of the Apples Their bils were thwarted crosse-wise at the end and with these they would cut an Apple in two at one snap eating onely the kernels It was taken at first for a forboden token and much admired but soone after notice grew that Glocester Shire and other Apple Countries haue them an ouer-familiar harme In the West parts of Cornwall during the Winter season Swallowes are found sitting in old deepe Tynneworkes and holes of the sea Cliffes but touching their lurking places Olaus Magnus maketh a farre stranger report For he saith that in the North parts of the world as Summer weareth out they clap mouth to mouth wing to wing and legge in legge and so after a sweete singing fall downe into certaine great lakes or pooles amongst the Canes from whence at the next Spring they receiue a new resurrection and hee addeth for proofe hereof that the Fishermen who make holes in the Ice to dip vp such fish with their nets as refort thither for breathing doe sometimes light on these Swallowes congealed in clods of a slymie substance and that carrying them home to their Stoues the warmth restoreth them to life and flight this I haue seene confirmed also by the relation of a Venetian Ambaffadour employed in Poland and heard auowed by trauaylers in those parts Wherethrough I am induced to giue it a place of probabilitie in my mind and of report in this treatise After hauing thus laid open euerie particular of the land naturall order leadeth my next labour to bee imployed about the water and the things incident thereunto the water I seuer into fresh and salt Touching fresh Water euerie hill wel-neere sendeth forth plentifull fresh cleare and pleasant springs all profitable for moystning the ground and wholesome for mans vse diuers by running through veines of mettals supposed also medicinable for sundrie diseases of which more in their particular places These springs as seuerall persons assembling make a multitude take aduantage of the falling grounds to vnite in a greater strength and beget Ryuers which yet are more in number and swifter in course then deepe in bottome or extended in largenesse For they worke out their bed through an earth full of Rockes and stones suting therethrough the nature onely of some speciall fishes of which kind are Minowes Shoats Eeles and Lampreys The rest are common to other Shires but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt howbeit in bignesse and goodnesse commeth farre behind him His baites are flies and Tag-wormes which the Cornish English terme Angle-touches Of the Ryuers and Hauens which they make occasion will be ministred vs to speake particularly in the next booke and therefore it shall suffice to name the chiefest here in generall which are on the South coast Tamer Tauy Liner Seaton Loo Foy Fala Lo. On the North Camel Halae Of fresh water Ponds either cast out by nature or wrought out by Art Cornwall is stored with verie few though the site of so many narrow vallies offereth many with the onely charge of raysing an head But the Oceans plentifull beames darken the affecting of this pettie starlight touching whose nature and properties for his saltnesse in taste strength in bearing course in ebbing and flowing the effects are so well knowne to the vulgar as they neede not any particular relation and the causes so controuersed amongst the learned as it passeth mine abilitie to moderate the question onely this I will note that somewhat before a tempest if the sea-water bee flashed with a sticke or Oare the same casteth a bright shining colour and the drops thereof resemble sparckles of fire as if the waues were turned into flames which the Saylers terme Briny Amongst other commodities affoorded by the sea the Inhabitants make vse of diuers his creekes for griste-milles by thwarting a bancke from side to side in which a floud-gate is placed with two leaues these the flowing tyde openeth and after full sea the waight of the ebbe closeth fast which no other force can doe and so the imprisoned water payeth the ransome of dryuing an vnder-shoote wheele for his enlargement Ilands S. Nicholas in the mouth of Plymmouth S. George before Loo S. Michaels Mount and the Iles of Scilley Hauens on the South coast there are Plymmouth Loo Foy Falmouth Helford and the Rode of Mountsbay On the North S. Ies and Padstowe of which more hereafter Diuers of these are dayly much endammaged by the earth which the Tynners cast vp in their working and the rayne floods wash downe into the riuers from whence it is discharged in the hauens and shouldreth the sea out of his ancient possession or at least encrocheth vpon his depth To remedy this an Act of Parliament was made 23. H. 8. that none should labour in Tynneworks neere the Deuon and Cornish hauens but whether it aymed not at the right cause or hath not taken his due execution little amendement appeareth thereby for the present and lesse hope may be conceyued for the future Yet this earth being through such meanes conuerted into sand enricheth the husbandman equally with that of Pactolus for after the sea hath seasoned it with his salt and fructifying moysture his waues worke vp to the shore a great part thereof together with more of his owne store grated from the cliffes and the Tillers some by Barges and Boats others by horses and waines doe fetch it therewith dresse their grounds This sand is of diuers kindes colours and goodnesse the kinds some bigger some lesser some hard some easie The colours are answereable to the next Cliffes The goodnesse increaseth as it is taken farther out of the Sea Some haue also vsed to carry vp into their grounds the Ose or salt water mudde and found good profit thereby though not equalling the sand To this purpose also serueth Orewood which is a weed either growing vpon the rockes vnder high water marke or broken from the bottome of the sea by rough weather and cast vpon the next shore by the wind and flood The first sort is reaped yeerely and thereby bettereth in quantity and qualitie the other must be taken when the first tyde bringeth it or else the next change of winde will carry it away His vse serueth for barly land Some accustomed to burne it
burial of a Duke whose heire was maried to the prince But who it should bee I cannot deuise albeit my best pleasing coniecture lighteth vpon Orgerius because his daughter was married to Edgar At the last Cornish commotion S. Richard Greynuile the elder did with his Ladie and followers put themselues into this Castle there for a while indured the Rebels siege incamped in three places against it who wanting great Ordinance could haue wrought the besieged small scathe had his friends or enemies kept faith and promise but some of those within slipping by night ouer the wals with their bodies after their hearts and those without mingling humble intreatings with rude menaces he was hereby wonne to issue forth at a posterne gate for patley The while a part of thoserakehels not knowing what honestie and farre lesse how much the word of a souldier imported stepped betweene him and home laid hold on his aged vnweyldie body and threatned to leaue it liuelesse if the inclosed did not leaue their resistance So prosecuting their first treacherie against the prince with suteable actions towards his subiects they seized on the Castle and exercised the vttermost of their barbarous crueltie death excepted on the surprised prisoners The seely Gentlewomen without regard of sexe or shame were stripped from their apparrell to their verie smockes and some of their fingers broken to plucke away their rings and Sir Richard himselfe made an exchange from Trematon Castle to that of Launceston with the Gayle to boote This Castle vaunteth the Lord Warden his steward by Patent Master Anthonie Rouse his Baylife by inheritance and Richard Carew of Antony his keeper by lease Of the ancient officers one yet retayneth the name though not the place viz. M. Porter to whose ancestor when Vantor was L. thereof one by a deed before date gaue land lying without the gate by the title of Russell Ianitori de Trematon which he still enioyeth M. Porters Armes are Sa. Three Belles Ar. a Canton Erm. It standeth in S. Stephens parish the sheafe whereof together with other farre reuennues M. George Wadham enioying in the right of his wife the daughter and heire to master Hechins liberally bestoweth in continuall hospitalitie Master Hechins Armes are Sa. a crosse Fleurty quarterly B. and G. betweene 4. Lyons heades erased Sa. langued of the second M. Wadhams G. a Cheuron betweene three Roses Ar. The same parish also compriseth Saltash in olde writings called Villa de Esse Esse his towne and such Gentlemen there haue bene of ancient descent and faire reuennues The word Salt is added thereunto because it standeth on the sea to distinguish it from other places of the same name It is seated on the declyning of a steep hill consisteth of three streets which euery showre washeth cleane compriseth betweene 80. and 100. households vnderlyeth the gouernment of a Maior his 10. brethren and possesseth sundry large priuiledges ouer the whole hauen to wit an yeerely rent of boates and barges appertayning to the harbour ancorage of strange shipping crowning of dead persons laying of arrests and other Admirall rights besides electing of Burgesses for the Parliaments benefit of the passage foreclosing all others saue themselues from dredging of Oysters except betweene Candlemas and Easter weckely markets halfe-yeerely fayres c. The towne is of late yeeres well encreased and adorned with buildings the townsmen addict themselues to the honest trade of marchandise which endoweth them with a competent wealth Some 7. or 8. ships belong thereunto It was not long since that the neighbour-ministers successiuely bestowed their paines in preaching there on the market daies and the bordering gentlemen yeelded their presence Sermon ended the Preachers resorted to one ordinary and the Gentlemen to another This affoorded commendable effects to many works of loue and charity but with the retorted blame from one to another it is now wholly giuen ouer Heere that great Carrack which Sir Frauncis Drake surprised in her returne from the East Indies vnloded her frayght and through a negligent fyring met with an vnproper ending In this towne also dwelleth one Grisling deafe from a long time who besides his merry conceites of counterseyting by signes like the Romane Pantamimi any kinde of occupation or exercise hath a strange quality to vnderstand what you say by marking the mouing of your lips especially if you speake deliberately of any ordinary matter so as contrary to the rules of nature and yet without the helpe of arte he can see words as they passe forth of your mouth and of this I haue caused him to giue often experiments And if Plyny now liued I suppose he would affoord a roome in his natural History to a dogge of this town who as I haue learned by the faithfull report of master Thomas Parkins vsed daily to fetch meate at his house there and to carry the same vnto a blinde mastiffe that lay in a brake without the towne yea that more is hee would vpon Sundayes conduct him thither to dynner and the meale ended guide him back to his couch and couert againe I had almost forgotten to tell you that there is a well in this towne whose water will neuer boyle peason to a seasonable softnes At the foot of Saltash there abbutteth vpon the sea a rock called Ashtorre alias Esses Torre which is inuested with the iurisdiction of a mannour and claymeth the sultes of many Gentlemen as his freeholders in Knights seruice Belowe this there is a rock on eche side of the riuer the one termed the Bull the other the Hen that on Deuon this on Cornwall side The Hen standeth a little distant from the shore which giueth occasion to a Packe how between it and the land the Queenes greatest ship may saile but it is meant of the farther distant Aboue Saltash Cargreen a fisher towne sheweth it selfe but can hardly muster a meane plight of dwellings or dwellers so may their care be greene because their wealth is withered Neere thereunto is Clifton a neat seated house appertayning to one of the Arundels descended by a yonger brother from those of Trerice he maried Hill his father Cole Neither hath your eye searcely quitted that when it receiueth Halton the pleasant and commodious dwelling of M. Anthony Rouse both which benefits he employeth to a kind vninterrupted entertainment of such as visit him vpō his not spare inuiting or their owne occasions who without the selfe guilt of an vngratefull wrong must witnes that his frankenesse confirmeth their welcome by whatsoeuer meanes prouision the fewell of hospitality can in the best maner supply His auncestours were Lords of little Modbury in Deuon before the descent of times grew to a distinguishment by the date of writings which mannour together with other lands through a lineall succession fell to be possessed by Raphe Wil. Raphe Iohn Wil. Raphe and Raphe whose daughter and heire Elizabeth bestowed the same with