widdow of both And as after the fathers decease good agreement betweene the mother and eldest sonne hath commonly weake continuance because both being enfranchised to a sudden absolute iurisdiction neither of them can easily temper the same with a requisite moderation so it chaunced that shee and hers fell at square which discord with an vnnaturall extremity brake forth into a blow by him no lesse dearly then vndutifully giuen his mother for vpon so iust a cause she disinherited him of all her lands being seuenteene mannours and bestowed them on her yonger sonnes This I learned by the report of Sir Peter Carew the elder of that name and eldest of our stock a Gentleman whose rare worth my pen is not able to shaddow much lesse with his due lineaments to represent at such time as being a scholler in Oxford of fourteene yeeres age and three yeeres standing vpon a wrong conceyued opinion touching my sufficiency I was there called to dispute ex tempore impar congressus Achilli with the matchles Sir Ph. Sidney in presence of the Earles Leycester Warwick and diuers other great personages By the forementioned conueyance she disposed of her sayd mannours as followeth Haccumb Ringmore and Milton shee gaue to Nicholas Lyham Manedon Combhall and Southtawton to Hugh East-Antony Shoggebroke and Landegy to Alexander Wicheband Widebridge Bokeland and Bledeuagh to William and lastly Roseworthy Bosewen and Tregennow to Iohn al which she entailed to them and the issue of their bodies substituting for want thereof the one to be heire to the other and in witnes hereof sayth she in her conueyance to each of these deedes fiue times indented I haue set my seale and because my seale is to many vnknowne haue procured the seale of the Maior of the Citie of Exon to be also adioyned Thomas her eldest sonne repayred this losse in part by matching with one of Carminowes daughters and heires From Nicholas is descended Carew of Haccumb who by vertue of this entayle succeeded also to Hughs portion as deceasing issuelesse From William is come Carew of Crocum in Somerset shire and from Iohn Vere the now Earle of Oxford deriueth his pedigree Alexander maried Elizabeth the daughter of Hatch and begate Iohn who tooke to wife Thamesin one of the daughters and heires of Holland their sonne Sir Wymond espoused Martha the daughter of Edmund and sister to Sir Anthony Denny Sir Wymond had Thomas the husband of Elizabeth Edgecumb and they my selfe linked in matrimony with Iulian daughter to Iohn Arundel of Trerice and one of the heires to her mother Catherine Cosewarth who hath made me father of Richard lately wedded to Briget daughter of Iohn Chudleigh of Ashton in Deuon Touching our stock in generall and my family in particular being once vainly disposed I would it had bene but once I made this idle obseruation CArew of ancient Carru was And Carru is a plowe Romanes the trade Frenchmen the word I doe the name auowe The elder stock and we a braunch At Phoebes gouerning From fire to sonne doe waxe and wane By thrift and lauishing The fire not valuing at due price His wealth it throwes away The sonne by seruice or by match Repaireth this decay The smelling sence wee sundry want But want it without lack For t' is no sense to wish a weale That brings a greater wrack Through natures marke we owne our babes By tip of th'upper lip Black-bearded all the race saue mine Wrong dide by mothership The Barons wife Arch-deacons heire Vnto her yonger sonne Saue Antony which downe to me By 4. descents hath runne All which and all their wiues exprest A Turtles single loue And neuer did tha'duentrous change Of double wedding proue We are the fift to swarue herefrom I will not though I could As for my wife God may dispose Shee shall not though she would Our family transplants itselfe To grow in other shires And Countrey rather makes then takes As best behoofe appeares Children thrice three God hath vs lent Two sonnes and then a mayd By order borne of which one third We in the graue haue layd Our eldest daughter widow fell Before our yongest borne So doe hard haps vnlooked come So are our hopes forlorne Mine trebled haue in either sexe Those which my parents got And yet but halfed them which God My graundsire did allot Whose grace in Court rarely obtaynd To th'yongst of those eighteene Three Kings of England Godfathers For Godmother our Queene The Armes of our family are Or. 3. Lyons passant sable armed and Langued Gules It exceedeth good maners to inuite your longer stay at our colde harbour and yet for that diuers strangers haue either vpon cause or kindnesse pretended to like well of a saltwater pond there made and others whose dwelling affoordeth a semblable oportunity may perhaps take some light herefrom to doe the like if they be so disposed I will put my selfe to the payne of particularly describing it and you may notwithstanding at your pleasure saue the labour of perusing it wherein I will by the way interlace some notes for the Imitaters better instruction There lyeth a creeke of Ose betweene two hilles which deliuering a little fresh rillet into the sea receyueth for recompence a large ouerflowing of the salt water tides This place is deepened to apond by casting vp part of the Ose to the heades part to the middle and part to the sides the vpper head stoppeth out the fresh water the lower keepeth in the salt the middle rayseth an Iland for the VVorkmens ease the owners pleasure and the fishes succour The Ose thus aduanced within short space through the sunne and winde changeth his former softnes to a firmer hardnesse Round about the pond there is pitched a frith of three foote heighth sloped inwards to barre any Otter from issuing if hee there aduenture his naturall theft as it would foreclose his entrance but lose the pastime of his hunting if the same declined outwards In one of the corners next the sea standeth a flood-gate to bee drawne vp and let downe through reigles in the side postes whose mouth is encompassed with a double frith of two foote distance eche from other and their middle space filled vp with small stones this serueth to let in the salt water and to keepe in the fish when the flood-gate is taken vp and therefore you must not make the frith too close nor the compasse too little lest they too much stop the waters passage It riseth of equall heighth with the banks they must outreach the highest full sea mark by two foot at least neyther ought your flood-gates foote to stand euen with the pondes bottome lest emptying the water it wholly abandon the fish but must leaue about three foot depth within In the halfe circle enclosed between the flood-gate and the compasse frith there is digged a round pit of three foot diameter and foure foot depth frithed on the sides which is continually fedde with the water soaking
away with the ball if they can catch it at aduantage But they may not so steale the palme for gallop any one of them neuer so fast yet he shall be surely met at some hedge corner crosse-lane bridge or deepe water which by casting the Countrie they know he must needs touch at and if his good fortune gard him not the better hee is like to pay the price of his theft with his owne and his horses ouerthrowe to the ground Sometimes the whole company runneth with the ball seuen or eight miles out of the direct way which they should keepe Sometimes a foote-man getting it by stealth the better to scape vnespied will carry the same quite backwards and so at last get to the goale by a windlace which once knowne to be wonne all that side flocke thither with great iolity and if the same bee a Gentlemans house they giue him the ball for a Trophee and the drinking out of his Beere to boote The ball in this play may bee compared to an infernall spirit for whosoeuer catcheth it fareth straightwayes like a madde man strugling and fighting with those that goe about to holde him and no sooner is the ball gone from but hee resigneth this fury to the next receyuer and himselfe becommeth peaceable as before I cannot well resolue whether I should more commend this game for the manhood and exercise or condemne it for the boysterousnes and harmes which it begetteth for as on the one side it makes their bodies strong hard and nimble and puts a courage into their hearts to meete an enemie in the face so on the other part it is accompanied with many dangers some of which doe euer fall to the players share For proofe whereof when the hurling is ended you shall see them retyring home as from a pitched battaile with bloody pates bones broken and out of ioynt and such bruses as serue to shortē their daies yet al is good play neuer Attourney nor Crowner troubled for the matter Wrastling is as full of manlinesse more delightfull and lesse dangerous which pastime either the Cornish men deriued frō Corineus their first pretended founder or at least it ministred some stuffe to the farcing of that fable But to let that passe their cōtinual exercise in this play hath bred thē so skilfull an habit as they presume that neither the ancient Greek Palestritae nor the Turks so much delighted Pelrianders nor their once countrymen and stil neighbours the Bretons can bereau them of this Laurell and matchlesse certes should they be if their cunning were answerable to their practise for you shall hardly find an assembly of boyes in Deuon or Cornwall where the most vntowardly amongst them will not as readily giue you a muster of this exercise as you are prone to require it For performing this play the beholders cast themselues in a ring which they call Making a place into the empty middle space whereof the two champiō wrastlers step forth stripped into their dublets and hosen and vntrussed that they may so the better commaund the vse of their lymmes and first shaking hands in token of friendship they fall presently to the effects of anger for each striueth how to take hold of other with his best aduantage and to beare his aduerse party downe wherein whosoeuer ouerthroweth his mate in such sort as that either his backe or the one shoulder and contrary heele do touch the ground is accounted to giue the fall If he be endangered and make a narrow escape it is called a foyle This hath also his lawes of taking hold onely aboue girdle wearing a girdle to take hold by playing three pulles for tryall of the mastery the fall-giuer to be exempted from playing againe with the taker and bound to answere his successour c. Many sleights and tricks appertaine hereunto in which a skilfull weake man wil soone get the ouerhand of one that is strong and ignorant Such are the Trip fore-Trip Inturne the Faulx forward and backward the Mare and diuers other like Amongst Cornish wrastlers now liuing my friend Iohn Goit may iustly challenge the first place not by prerogatiue of his seruice in her Maiesties gard but through hauing answered all challenges in that pastime without blemish Neither is his commendation bounded within these limits but his cleane made body and actiue strength extend with great agility to whatsoeuer other exercise of the arme or legge besides his abilitie vpon often tryall to take charge at Sea eyther as Master or Captayne All which good parts hee graceth with a good fellowlike kinde and respectfull carriage Siluer prizes for this and other actiuities were wont to be carried about by certaine Circumferanei or set vp for Bidales but time or their abuse hath now worne them out of date and vse The last poynt of this first booke is to plot downe the Cornish gouernment which offreth a double consideration the one as an entire state of it selfe the other as a part of the Realme both which shal be seuerally handled Cornwall as an entire state hath at diuerstimes enioyed sundry titles of a Kingdome Principality Duchy and Earledome as may appeare by these few notes with which I haue stored my selfe out of our Chronicles If there was a Brute King of Brittaine by the same authority it is to bee proued that there was likewise a Corineus Duke of Cornwall whose daughter Gwendolene Brutes eldest sonne Locrine tooke to wife and by her had issue Madan that succeeded his father in the kingdome Next him I finde Henninus Duke who maried Gonorille one of King Leirs daughters and heires and on her begat Morgan but whiles he attempted with his other brother in law to wrest the kingdome from their wiues father by force of armes before the course of nature should cast the same vpon them Cordeilla the third disherited sister brought an armie out of Fraunce to the olde mans succour and in a pitched battell bereft Henninus of his life Clotenus King of Cornwall begat a sonne named Mulmutius Dunwallo who when this Iland had beene long distressed with the ciuil warres of petty Kings reduced the same againe into one peaceable Monarchy Belinus brother to that great terror of the Romanes Brennus had for his appaunage as the French terme it Loegria Wales and Cornwall Cassibelane succeeding his brother Lud in the kingdome gaue to his sonne Tennancius the Duchy of Cornwall After this Iland became a parcell of Iulius Caesars conquests the same rested it self or was rather vexed a long time vnder the gouernment of such rulers as the Romanes sent hither But the Bretons turning at last their long patience into a sudden fury rose in armes slewe Alectus the Emperour Dioclesians deputy and inuested their leader Asclepiodotus Duke of Cornwall with the possession of the kingdome Conan Meridock nephew to Octauius whome the Emperour Constantine appoynted gouernour of this Iland was Duke of
escapes this sport I take Where pond doth th' Ocean captiue make I carried once a purpose to build a little woodden banqueting house on the Iland in my pond which because some other may perhaps elsewhere put in executiō it wil not do much amisse to deliuer you the plot as the same was deuised for mee by that perfectly accomplished gentleman the late Sir Arthure Champernowne The Iland is square with foure rounds at the corners like Mount-Edgecumb This should first haue bene planched ouer and rayled about with ballisters In the midst there should haue risen a boorded roome of the like fashion but lesser proportion so to leaue sufficient space betweene that and the rayles for a walke round about this square roome should within side haue bene sieled roundwise and in three of the places where the round ioyned with the square as many windowes should haue bene set the fourth should haue serued for a dore Of the 4. turrets shut out by this round one should haue made a kitchin the second a store-house to keepe the fishing implements the third a buttery the fourth a stayre for ascending to the next loft which next loft should haue risen on the flat roofe of the lower in a round forme but of a lesser size againe so to leaue a second Tarras like the other and as the square roome below was sieled round so should this vpper round roome be sieled square to the end that where the side walles and sieling ioyned three windowes and a doore might likewise find their places The voyd spaces betweene the round and square hee would haue turned to Cupboardes and boxes for keeping other necessary vtensiles towards these sishing feasts Ouer-against this pond lyeth beggers Iland so called as our neighbours relate euer since my great grandsire espying 2. of that idle occupation at a hote combate on the shore while he was rowing homewards from Saltash tooke them into his boat there set them on land to try as in a lists the vttermost of their quarrell which place they could not quir vntil the low water should enfranchise them by wading the respite vent out the aly e fume of their fury About 40. yeres agoe it chanced that a boat ouerfraighted with people in rowing downe the riuer from Saltash market was by the extreme weather sunk neere to a place called Henpoint and all the folke drowned sauing one onely woman named Agnes the wife of one Cornish whome it pleased God so to protect and direct that in her first popping vp againe which most liuing things accustome shee espyed the boat after it had discharged his burtlien risen likewise and floting by her full of water whereon she got holde sate astride vpon one of his sides and by the winde and tyde was vnusually and almost miraculously driuen athwart the chanell to a place called Wilcoue where shee no sooner stepped ashore but the boat as hauing done his enioyned errand presently recommitted itself to the stormes disposition The woman thus freed from one perill at sea aduentured another of little lesse consequence at land for being not yet throughly restored to her sēse she clymed vp the cliffe in such a steepe place as the very consideration thereof doth euer sithence halfe amaze the beholders But that ground was foreordained to her good for not long after her husband tooke the same with the rest of the tenement in lease and it now serueth her for a dwelling and many others by her charitie for a reliefe Her sayd husband their two onely sonnes at seuerall times by one kind of misfortune found their buriall in the waues The Oysters dredged in this Lyner finde a welcomer acceptance where the taste not appetite is Cater for the stomack then those of the adioyning Tamer which groweth as I coniecture because Lyners lesser streame leaueth them to bee seasoned with a more kindely and better relished saltnes The next parish vpō this riuer is called Sheuiock somtimes the anciēt Dannyes inheritance inhabitance by whose daughter heire the same together with other faire possessions descended to the Earles of Deuon In the church there lie two Knights of that name and one of their ladies by her husbands side hauing their pictures embossed on their tombes in the side walles and their Armes once painted round about but now by the malice not of men but of time defaced They are held to be father and sonne and that the sonne slayne in our warres with Fraunce was from thence brought home to be here interred There runneth also a tale amongst the parishioners how one of these Dannyes ancestours vndertook to build the Church and his wife the barne adioyning and that casting vp their accounts vpon finishing of their workes the barne was found to cost three halfepence more then the Church and so it might well fall out for it is a great barne and a little Church In this parish standeth Crasthole which by the high site might more fitly be termed Open hill a poore village but a much frequented thorow-fare somewhat infamous not vpon any present desert but through an inueterate byword viz. that it is peopled with 12. dwellings and 13. cuckolds for as the dwellings are more then doubled so I hope the cuckolds are lesse then singled Howsoeuer many wayfarers make themselues glee by putting the Inhabitants in minde of this priuiledge who againe especially the women like the Campellians in the North and the London Bargers forslow not to baigne them vnlesse they plead their heels the faster with a worse perfume then Iugurth found fault with in the dungeon where the Romanes buried him aliue to attend his languishing and miserable death Vpon Sheuiock abbutteth S. Germanes the greatest parish in Cornwall if you ioyne to the store of people the quantity and quality of the soyle wherethrough it affoordeth commodious dwellings to sundry ancient Gentlemen and wealthy Farmours amongst which first sort I may not without withdrawing my testimony due to venue omit M. George Keckwitch of Catch-French a house so named by likelyhood for some former memorable though now forgotten accident whose continuall large and inquisitiue liberality to the poore did in the late deare yeres extraordinarily extend it selfe to an inuiting emulation but beyond the apprehensiue imitation of any other in the shire He hath issue by Blanch the daughter of Sir Frauncis Godolphin his father George maried Buller his graundsire their ancient dwelling was in Essex where this Gentleman enioyeth fayre possessions beareth for his armes Ar. two Lyons in bend passant Sa. cotised G. The Church towne mustreth many inhabitants and sundry ruines but little wealth occasioned eyther through abandoning their fishing trade as some conceiue or by their being abandoned of the religious people as the greater sort imagine for in former times the Bishop of Cornwals See was from S. Petrocks in Bodmyn remooued hither as from hence when the Cornish Dioces vnited with Deuon it passed to Crediton
vefled in master Otwell Hill as heire to his mother the daughter and heire to Cosowarth to whome it likewise accrued by matching with the daughter and heire of that name a seate through his fruitfulnesse and other appurtenances supplying the owner large meanes of hospitalitie and by him so imployed who reckoneth to receiue most good when he doth it He deriueth himselfe from a populous and well regarded familie in Lancashire and matried the daughter of Denham and beareth G. a Cheuron betweene three Garbes Ermine Art he adioyning Saint Tue dwelleth master Richard Tremayn descended from a yonger brother of Colocumb house in Deuon who being learned in the lawes is yet to learne or atleast to practise how he may make other profit there by then by hoarding vp teasure of gratitude in the mindfull brests of poore and rich on whom hee gratis bestoweth the fruites of his paines and knowledge He married Coffyn hee beareth G. three Armes in circle ioyned at the Tronkes O. with hands proper Dudman a wel knowne foreland to most Saylers here shouldreth out the Ocean to shape the same a large bosome betweene it selfe and Rame head which are wel-neere twentie myles in distance Amongst sundrie prouerbs allotting an impossible time of performance the Cornishmen haue this one When Rame-head and Dudman meet Whose possession yet though not theÌ„selues met in Sir Peers Edgecumb as inioying that in right of his wife and this by descent from his Father Bodrugan a large demaines adioyning thereunto which I will not deriue from Sir Bors du Ganis though the neighbours so say was the dwelling of Sir Henrie Trenowith a man of great liuely-hood who chaunged his name with the house and lost house and holding through attainder for rebellion against king Henrie the seuenth The king bestowed it by an intailed gift vpon Sir Richard Edgecumb Next lyeth the foreremembred Carybayes Kery haz in Cornish signifieth to beare his seede or as some other define it delighting in seede descended to M. Charles Treuanion the present possessioner by a long ranke of auncestors from Arundels daughter and-heire his father married the daughter of Morgan and sister to the first Lord Hunsdons wife which brought him an honourable ally Three of this Gentlemans elder brethren Edward Iohn and Hugh forewent him in successioned their fathers inheritance and passed to the better world in a single life himselfe by matching the daughter and heire of Witchalse whose mother was coheire to Marwood hath raised issue vnto them and continueth the hope of posteritie Sir William Treuanions his Graundfire tooke to wife the said Sir Richard Edgecumbs daughter The Treuanions Armes are A. a Fesse B. charged with three Escalops O. betweene two Cheurons G. Roseland is a circuite containing certaine Parishes hereabouts and benefiting the owners with his fruitfulnesse so that though the original of his name came perhaps as master Camden noteth from his former thickets yet his present estate better resembleth a flowrie effect By this time we approch the limits of Falmouth Hauen vpon one of whose Creekes standeth the market and incorporate towne of Tregny not specially memorable in my knowledge for any extraordinarie worth or accident Of better regard is Truro alias Truru or Trisow as the principall towne of the Hauen priuiledged with a Mayraltie and benefited with the generall Westerne Sessions Coynages Markets Faires c. The shape of the towne and Etymon of the name may be learned out of this Cornish propheticall rime Truru Triueth cu Ombdina geueth try ru Which is to say Truro consisteth of three streetes and it shall in time bee said Here Truro stood A like mischiefe of a mysterie they obserue that in taking T. from the towne there testeth ru ru which in English soundeth Woe Woe but whatsoeuer shall become therof hereafter for the present I hold it to haue got the start in wealth of anyother Gornish towne and to come behind none in buildings Lanceston onely excepted where there is more vse and profit of faire lodgings through the Countie Assizes I wish that they would likewise deserue praise for getting and imploying their riches in some industrious trade to the good of their Countrie as the Harbours oportunitie inviteth them Descending from Truro to the Hauens mouth by water you are ouer-looked by sundrie Gentlemens commodious feates as Fen ten golian in English the Haâ—ts well lately appertaining to master Carmynow by interpretation often louing and now to master Holcomb who married the daughter of master Peter Courtncy Master Sayers house Ardeuora inhabited by master Thomas Peyton a Gentleman for his age and vertues deseruing a regardfull estimation Master Befcawnes Master Sayers but amongst all vpon that side of the riuer Taluerne for pleasant prospect large scope and other hous-keeping commodities challengeth the preeminence it was giuen to a yonger brother of Lanhearne for some six or seuen descents past and hath bred Gent of good worth and calling amongst whom I may not forget the late hind valiant Sir Iohn Arundell who matched with Godolphin nor Iohn his vertuous and hopeful succeeding sonne who married with Carew though this remembrance renew that sorrow which once I partly expressed in the insuing Epitaph Seeke not blind eyes the liking with the dead T is earth you see our Arundel is gone To ioyne with Christ as member to his head And skernes and pities this our bootlesse mone Yet pardon vs sweete soule mans nature beares We to thy losse should sacrifice our teares Thou time hast changed to eternitie But timelesse was that time in our regard Since â—â—ught thou leau'st vs saue the memorie Of thy deare worth so soone not to be spared Soft be the grine vnrathy resting bones Short be the date that vs againe atones Vpon the East side of the Hauens entrance Saint Maryes alias S. Mawes Castle witly his Point-blanke Ordinance comptrolleth any shipping that deserue a deniall of admission or passage and is commaunded by master Viuian a Gentleman who through his worth deserueth and with due care and iudgement dischargeth the Martiall and ciuill gouernments committed to his trust hee beareth partie per fesse Ar. and Vnsase 6. in chiefe a Lyon rampant G. We will close vp this Hundred after our vsuall maner with the Gentlemen of marke but not orderly marked Such are Tanner who married the daughter of Rosicarrock who beareth A. on a chiefe S. three Morions heads O. Pomeroy a branch of Bery Pomeroy in Deuon he beareth O. a Lyon rampaÌ„t G. who matched with Tanner and whose daughter heire apparant hath taken to husband the yong Penkeuil who beareth A. two Cheurons and in chiefe a Lyon passant G. Polwheele whose name in deduced from his dwelling and his dwelling may be interpreted The mity worke linked in wedlock with the coheire of Trinâ—â—â—â—â—e in English The towne of the borough His mother was Lower of Trelask Palwheel beareth S. a Saultier engraysed Erm. Hearle lineally desoended from sundry Knights
great deale of the sand water and fish which instant if it take any passenger tardy shrewdly endangereth him to flit for company and some haue so miscarried To this poole adioyneth M. Penrose his house whose kinde entertainment hath giuen mee and many others experience of these matters He maried the daughter of Rashleigh he beareth A. 3. Bendes S. charged with 9. restes of the field Those 2. riuers of Haill and Lo rising not farre asunder doe enclose betweene them as they runne into the sea a neck of land particularized with the name of Meneag and in regard of his fruitfulnesse not vnworthy of a seuerance Within this circuit lie Trelawarren M. Viuians house and Erisy seated in 2. parishes and descended by a long ranke of ancestours to the Gent. of that name now in ward His father married Carew his graundsire one of Militons coheires who ouerliuing her husband ended the course of her long and well commended widdowhood in becomming Lady to Sir Nicholas Parker The Eâ—zies beare S. a Cheuron betweene 3. Griffons Sergreant O. Clowance deriued from Cloow which signifieth to heare is the possession and dwelling of M. Saintabin whose very name besides the conquest roll deduceth his first ancestours out of Fraunce His graundfather married Greinuile his father one of Whittingtons coheires which later couple in a long and peaceable date of yeeres exercised a kinde liberall and neuer discontinued hospitality Himselfe tooke to wife the daughter of Mallet and with ripe knowledge and sound iudgement dischargeth the place which he beareth in his Countrey Hee beareth O. on a crosse G. fiue Bezaunts Pengueraz in Cornish importeth a head to help from which some deduce the Etymon of Pengersick a fayre house in an vnfruitfull soyle sometimes the inhabitance of M. Militon Captaine of the Mount and husband to Godolphin whose sonne being lost in his trauaile beyond the seas enriched 6. distafs with his inheritance They were bestowed in mariage but by me not orderly marshalled as followeth 1. to Erisy and Sir Nicholas Parker 2. to Laniue 3. to Trefuses and Tregâ—deck 4. to Trenwith Arundel and Hearle 5. to Bonithon 6. to Abbot Not farre from thence riseth Godolghan ball or hill at whose foote standeth a house of the same name and so intitling his owner though lately declined with a milder accent to Godolphin in Cornish it signifieth a white Eagle and such armes they carry in this sort G. an Eagle displayed with two heads betweene three Floures de luce A. This hill hath for diuers descents supplyed those Gent. bountifull mindes with large meanes accruing from their Tynne-works and is now possessed by Sir Frauncis Godolphin Knight whose zeale in religion vprightnesse in Iustice prouidence in gouernment and plentifull housekeeping haue wonne him a very great and reuerent reputation in his Countrey and these vertues together with his seruices to her Maiestie are so sufficiently knowne to those of highest place as my testimony can adde little light thereunto but by his labours and inuentions in Tynne matters not onely the whole Countrey hath felt a generall benefit so as the seuerall owners haue thereby gotten very great profit out of such refuse works as they before had giuen ouer for vnprofitable but her Maiesty hath also receyued encrease of her customes by the same at least to the value of 10. thousand pound Moreouer in those works which are of his owne particular inheritance hee continually keepeth at work three hundred persons or thereabouts the yerely benefit that out of those his works accrueth to her Maiestie amounteth communibus annis to one thousand pound at the least and sometimes to much more A matter very remorceable and perchaunce not to be matched againe by any of his sort and condition in the whole Realme He succeeded to the inheritance of his vnkle Sir William Godolphin who as hath bene said before demeaned himselfe verie valiantly in a charge which hee bare at Boloigne towards the latter end of the reigne of King Henry the 8. is like to leaue the same to another Sir William his sonne who giueth hope not onely of the sustaining but increasing of the reputation of his family Hee matched with Killigrew his father with Bonythou his Graund-father with Glynne Diuers other Gentlemen there dwell in this Hundred as Lanyne the husband of Kekewitch his father married Militon and beareth S. a Castle A. standing in waues B. ouer the same a Faulcon houering with bels O. Pernwarne that matched with the coheire of Tencreek who beareth S. a Cheuron betweene three Flowers de luce A. Lagherne who tooke to wife the daughter of Nants and beareth B. a Cheuron betweene three Escalops O. Nansperyan coupled in matrimonie with and his two daughters and heires apparent with Prideaux and Mathew who beareth A. three Losenges S. Penwith Hundred MY last labour for closing vp this wearisome Suruey is bounded as Cornwall it selfe and so the West part of England with Penwith Hundred The name in English signifieth the head of Ashen trees belike for some such eminent marke while the Countrie was better stored of Timber The Danes sayling about Penwith Steort saith Houeden made foule hauocke in Deuon and Cornwall Vpon the North sea lieth Nants which importeth a valley and houseth a Gent. who therethrough hath worne out his former name of Trengoue in English the Smithes towne and assumed this he married Sir Iohn Arundels daughter of Trerice and beareth A. a crosse haumed S. During summer season the Seales haunt a Caue in the Cliffe thereby and you shall see great store of them apparently shew themselues and approch verie neere the shore at the sound of any lowde musicke or other such noyse Beyond Nants M. Basses possesseth Tehiddy who married Godolphin his father Caffyn hee beareth O. three Piles in point G. a Canton Er. with a difference And so leauing these priuate Inhabitances keeping still the North coast we arriue at the towne and port of S. Ies both of meane plight yet with their best meanes and often to good and necessarie purpose succouring distressed shipping Order hath bene taken and attempts made for bettering the Road with a Peere but eyther want or slacknesse or impossibilitie hitherto withhold the effect the whiles plentie of fish is here taken and sold verie cheape As you row to the Westwards from hence the sea floweth into a large Caue farder vp then any man durst yet aduenture to discouer and the Cliffes thereabouts muster long strakes of a glittering hiew which import a shew of Copper and Copper mynes are found and wrought in the grounds adioyning M. Camden obserueth that neere hereunto stood the watch-towre mencioned by Orosius and oppositely placed to such another in Galitia Stepping ouer to the South sea for the distaunce is in comparison but a step S. Michaels mount looketh so alost as it brooketh no concurrent for the highest place Ptolomey termeth it Ocrinum the Cornish men Cara Cowz in Clowze that
many noble men besides But not too much of this least a partiall affection steale at vnwares into my commendation as one by my mother descended frō his loynes and by my birth a member of the house Certaine olde ruines yet remaining confirme the neighbours report that neere the waters side there stood once a towne called Weststone house vntill the French by fire and sword ouerthrew it In the yeere one thousand fiue hundred ninetienine the Spaniards vaunts caused the Cornish forces to aduance there a kind of fortification and to plot the making of a Bridge on barges ouer that strait for inhibiting the enemies accesse by boates and Gallies into the more inward parts of the hauen But it may be doubted whether the bridge would haue proued as impossible as the Sconcefell out vnnecessarie Master Peter Edgecumbe commonly called Peers married Margaret the daughter of Sir Andrew Lutterel his father Sir Richard married the daughter of Tregian his father Sir Peers married the daughter and heire of Stephan Durnford and his father Sir Richard married the daughter of Tremayn These names of Peers and Richard they haue successiuely varied for sixe or seuen descents Hee beareth for his Armes Gules on a Bend ermine betweene two Cotises Or. 3. Bores heades coped arg armed as the three Langued is the field A little inward from Mountedgecumb lieth a safe and commodious Road for shipping called Hamose and compounded of the words Ose and Ham according to the nature of the place Here those vessels cast anchor which are bound to the Eastwards as those doe in Catwater who would fare to the West because euerie wind that can serue them at Sea will from thence carrie them out which commoditie other Roads doe not so conueniently affoord It is reported that in times past there was an ordinary passage ouer this water to a place on Deuon side called Horsecoue but long since discontinued At the higher end of a creek passing vp from hence Milbrook lurketh between two hilles a village of some 80. houses and borrowing his name from a mill and little brook running therethrough In my remembrance which extendeth not to aboue 40 yeeres this village tooke great encrease of wealth and buildings through the iust and industrious trade of fishing and had welneere forty ships and barks at one time belonging therevnto But our late broyles with Spayne haue set vp a more compendious though not so honest way of gayning and begin by little and little to reduce these plaine dealers to their former vndeserued plight Yet do they prescribe in a suburbiall market as I may terme it to Plymmouth for their reliefe by intercepting if not forestalling such corne and victuals as passing thorow their streights cannot for want of time or weather get ouer Crymell passage to the other and surely they are not vnworthy of fauour for this towne furnisheth more able Mariners at euery prest for her Highnesse seruice then many others of far greater blaze It chanced about twenty yeeres sithence that one Richaurd wife to Richard Adams of this towne was deliuered of two male children the one ten weekes after the other who liued vntil baptisme the later hitherto Which might happen in that the woman bearing twinnes by some blow slide or other extraordinary accident brought forth the first before his time and the later in his due season Now that a childe borne in the seuenth moneth may liue both Astrologers and Phisicions doe affirme but in the 8. they deny it and these are their reasons The Astrologers hold that the child in the mothers wombe is successiuely gouerned euery moneth by the seuen Planets beginning at Saturne after which reckoning he returning to his rule the 8. month by his dreery influēce infortunateth any birth that shal then casually befall whereas his succeeder Iupiter by a better disposition worketh a more beneficiall effect The Phisicions deliuer that in the seuenth moneth the childe by course of nature turneth itself in the mothers belly wherefore at that time it is readier as halfe loosed to take issue by any outward chance Mary in the eightth when it beginneth to settle againe and as yet retayneth some weakenes of the former sturring it requireth a more forcible occasion that induceth a slaughtering violence Or if these coniecturall reasons suffice not to warrant a probability of the truth Plynies authority in a stranger case shall presse them farther for hee writeth that a woman brought a bed of one childe in the seuenth moneth in the moneths following was also deliuered of twinnes A part of Mount-Edgecumb and of this Milbrook though seuered from Deuon by the generall bound yet vpon some of the foreremembred considerations haue bene annexed thereunto Aside of Milbrook lyeth the Peninsula of Inswork on whose neckland standeth an ancient house of the Champernons and descended by his daughters and heires to Forteskew Monck and Treuilian three Gentlemen of Deuon The site is naturally both pleasant and profitable to which the owner by his ingenious experiments daily addeth an artificiall surplusage Passing somewhat farther vp you meet with the foot of Lyner where it winneth fellowship with Tamer that till then and this yet longer retayning their names though their ouer-weake streames were long before confounded by the predominant salt water A little within this mouth of Lyner standeth East-Antony the poore home of mine ancestours with which in this maner they were inuested Sir Iohn Lerchedekne Knight and not priest for he was so called of his family and not by his calling as in Froissard you shall note the like to be familiar amongst the nobility of Gascoigne by Cecill the daughter and heire of Iordan of Haccumb had issue 9. sonnes Ralph Waryne Richard Otho Iohn Robert Martyn Reignald and Michael Richard married Ione the daughter of Iohn Bosowr that bare him Thomas in whome the heires male of this multiplyed hope tooke an end Warine afterwards knighted tooke to wife Elizabeth one of the daughters and heires to Iohn Talbot de Castro Ricardi and on her begate three daughters and heires Alienor wedded to Sir Walter Lucy Margery to Sir Thomas Arundel of Taluerne and Philip to Sir Hugh Courtney of Bauncton which I take is now named Boconnock From Lucy descended the Lord Vaux and others Margery dyed childlesse anno 1419. as is testified by her toomb-stone in West-Antony Church where shee lyeth buried Sir Hugh Courtney was second sonne to Ed. Earle of Deuon had 2. wiues the first Maud daughter of the L. Beaumond to whose children for want of issue in the elder stock that Earledome deuolued the later our foreremēbred Philip who left her inheritance to her only daughter Ione and she taking a patterne from her fathers fortune espoused likewise 2. husbands viz. Sir Nicholas Baron of Carew and Sir Robert Vere brother to Iohn Earle of Oxford to Sir Nicholas shee bare Thomas Nicholas Hugh Alexander and William to Sir Robert Iohn and became