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
Cornwall At the Sinode of Arles in Fraunce there was present one Corinius sonne to Salomon Duke of Cornwall After the abouenamed Octauius his decease Maximianus a Romane who maried his daughter succeeded him also in gouernment betweene whome and the foreremembred Conan grew great warres which concluding at last in a peace Maxim passed with an armie into Fraunce conquered there Armorica naming it little Brittaine and gaue the same in fee to Conan who being once peaceably setled wrote ouer vnto Dionethus or Dionotus Duke or King of Cornwall as Mathew of West termeth him to send him some Maidens whom he might couple in mariage with his people whereon S. Vrsula her companions the 11000. virgins were shipped miscaried as their welknown history reporteth Nicholas Gille a French writer deliuereth vpon the credit of our British Historians that about this time Meroueus a Paynim king of Fraunce caused his owne sonne to be throwne into the fire and burned for that he had slayne the king of Cornwall as he returned from a feast Hee also maketh mention of one Moigne brother to Aurelius and Vter-pendragon Duke of Cornwall gouerner of the Realme vnder the Emperour Honorius Caredoc Duke of Cornwall was employed sayth D. Kay by Octauius about founding the Vniuerfitie of Cambridge And vpon Igerna wife to Gorlois Duke of Cornwall Vter begat the worthy Arthur and a daughter called Amy. This Arthur discomfited in fight one Childerick a king of the Saxons and afterwards vpon certaine couenants suffred him quietly to depart the Realme But Childerick violating the word of a king bound with the solemnity of an othe inuaded estsoones the Westerne coasts harrowing the Country as he passed vntil Cador Earle of Cornwall became Gods Minister to take vengeance of his periury by reauing off his life That Marke swayed the Cornish septer you cannot make question vnlesse you will withall shake the irrefragable authoritie of the round tables Romants Blederic Duke of Cornwall associated with other Welsh kings darrayned a battell against Ethelferd king of the Northumbers by the valiant forgoing of his life got his partners the victory Iuor sonne to Alane king of little Brittaine first wan from the Saxons Cornwall Deuon and Somerset shires by force of armes and then taking to wife Ethelburg cousin to Kentwin king of Westsex enioyed the same by composition Roderit king of the Bretons in Wales and Cornwall vnder whom Bletius was Prince of this last and of Deuon valiantly repulsed Adelred king of Westsex what time he assayled him in Cornwall yet in the end being ouer-matched in number and tired with continuall onsets he was driuen to quit the same and retire himselfe into Wales Polidor Virgill maketh mention of one Reginaldus Comes Britannorum in the time of king Etheldred Dungarth king of Corn by mischance was drowned Alpsius is recorded about this time for Duke of Deuon and Cornwall Orgerius Duke of Cornwall had a daughter named Alfride the fame of whose beauty caused King Edgar to send Earle Athelwold for obtaining her at her fathers hands in mariage But the Earle with the first sight of this faire Lady was so besotted in her loue that preferring the accomplishment of his lust before the duety of his alleageance he returnes answer to the King how the common report far exceeded her priuate worth which came much short of meriting a partnership in so great a Princes bed and not long after begged and obtayned the Kings good wlll to wed her himselfe But so braue a lustre could not lye long concealed without shining foorth into Edgars knowledge who finding the truth of his Ambassadours falshood tooke Athelwold at an aduauntage slewe him and maried her beeing a widdowe whome hee had wooed a mayde Hitherunto these titles of honour carry a kinde of confusednes and rather betokened a successiue office then an established dignity The following ages receiued a more distinct forme and left vs a certeyner notice What time William the bastard subdued this Realme one Condor possessed the Earledome of Cornwall and did homage for the same he had issue another Condor whose daughter and heire Agnes was maried to Reignald Earle of Bristowe base sonne to King Henry the first This note I borowed out of an industrious collection which setteth downe all the noble mens creations Armes and principall descents in euery Kings dayes since the conquest but master Camden our Clarentieulx nameth him Cadoc and saith farther that Robert Morton brother to William Conquerour by his mother Herlot was the first Earle of Norman blood and that his sonne William succeeded him who taking part with Duke Robert against Henry the first thereby got captiuity and lost his honour with which that King inuested the forementioned Reignald In this variance it is great reason that the ballance panche on his side who hath both authority to establish his assertion and a rarely approued knowledge to warrant his authoritie Hee dying issuelesse Richard the first gaue this Earledome to his brother Iohn Iohns sonne Henry the third honoured therewith his brother Richard King of the Romanes a Prince no lesse plentifully flowing in wealth then his brother was often driuen to extreame shifts through needinesse which made that barbarous age to poetrize Nummus ait pro me nubit Cornubia Rome Money sayd that for her sake Rome did Cornwall to wife take He had issue Henry Earle of Cornwall who deceased issuelesse and Edmond whose daughter and heire Isabell sayth mine authour was married to Moriee Fitsharding Lord Barckleigh but others affirme that this Edmond dyed without issue Edward the second degenerating in his choyce created his mynion Peter Gaueston a Gascoyne Earle of this County whose posterity ended in himselfe and himself by a violent death The last title of this Earldome expired in Iohn of Eltham yonger sonne to that King Edward After which King Edward the third by act of Parliament in the 11. yeere of his raigne erected the same to a Duchy the first in England and graced it with his sonne the blacke Prince for his heroicall vertues did rather bestow then receiue estimation from whatsoeuer dignitie Since which it is successiuely incorporated in the Kings eldest sonne and hath bene so enioyed by Richard the second Henry the fift Henry the sixt Edward his sōne Edward the fift Edward sonne to Richard the third Arthure and Henry sonnes to Henry the seuenth and lastly Edward the sixt 10. Dukes in the whole These Earles and Dukes haue from the beginning beene priuiledged with royall iurisdiction or Growne rights namely giuing of liberty to send Burgesses to the Parliaments returne of writs custome toll Mynes Treasure-trovee wards c. and to this end appoynted their speciall officers as Sheriffe Admirall Receyuer Hauener Customer Butler Searcher Comptroller Gaugeor Excheator Feodary Auditor Clarke of the market c. besides the L. Warden and those others beforeremembred whose functions appertayne
of mind and body as well ancient as present and then their degrees and recreations succeed to be surueyed The first Inhabitants or Aborigenes as the Paynims held resembled those whō our stories affirme Brute to haue found here at his landing huge of body rough of liuing sauage of conditions whome an old Poet desciphered in certaine verses which I receiued of my particular kind friend and generally well-deseruing Countreyman M-Camden now Clarentieulx which he since hath published Titanibus illa Sed paucis famulosa domus quibus vda ferarum Terga dabant vestes cruor haustus pocula trunci Antralares dumeta thoros caenacula rupes Praeda cibos raptus venerem spectacula caedes Imperium vires animos furor impetus arma Mortem pugna sepulchrarubus monstrisque gemebat Monticolis tellus sed eorum plurima tractus Pars erat Occidui terror maiorque premebat Tefuror extremum Zephiri Cornubialimen Which sound thus in English This was the Titans haunt but with No plenty did abound Whom beasts raw hides for clothing seru'd For drinke the bleeding wound Cups hollow trees their lodging dennes Their beds brakes parlour rocks Prey for their food rauine for lust Their games life-reauing knocks Their Empire force their courage tage A headlong brunt their armes Combate their death brambles their graue The earth groan'd at the harmes Of these mount-harbour'd monsters but The coast extending West Chiefe foyson had and dire dismay And sorest fury prest Thee Cornwall that with vtmost bound Of Zephire art possest But afterwards the Cornishmen through the conuersation offortaine Marchants trading into their countrey for Tyn by the testimony of Diodorus Siculus grew to a larger measure of ciuility then others their fellow but more remoted Ilanders Frō which ciuility in the fruitful age of Canonizatiō they stepped a degree farder to holines helped to stuffe the church kalender with diuers Saints either made or borne Cornish Such was Keby son to Solomō prince of Cor such Peran who if my author the Legend lyenot after that like another Iohannes de temporibus he had liued two hundred yeres with perfect health tooke his last rest in a Cornish parish which therethrough he endowed with his name And such were Dubslane Machecu Manclunum who I speake vpon Math. of Westm. credit forsooke Ireland thrust themselues to sea in a Boat made of three Oxe skinnes and a halfe with seuen daies victuall and miraculously arriued in Cornewall Of Cornish men whose industrie in learned knowledges hath recommended their fame to their posterity these few as yet are onely come to my notice Iohn of Cornwall a student at Rome and other places in Italy wrote of the Incarnation of Christ against Peter Lumbard and dedicated the same to Pope Alexander the third by whom he was highly fauoured Simon Thurnay after he had out-gone all the Oxford schollers in prophane learning sayth the commendably paynefull Antiquarie and my kind friend Master Hooker passed from thence to Paris and there so profited in the study of diuinitie that he attayned the chiefest place amongst the profound Sorbonists But it was a windy knowledge that thus filled his sayles of glory which grew at last so to tempest his wittes as he held Aristotle superiour to Moses and Christ and yet but equall to himselfe But this extreame surquedry forfeyted his wittes so as at last they could not serue him to know any letter in the booke or to remember ought that he had done In King Henry the thirds time liued Michael of Cornwall admirable as those dayes gaue for his variety of Latine rimes who maintayned the reputation of his Countrey against Henry de Abrincis the Kings Arch-Poet but somewhat angerly as it seemeth by these verses against the said de Abrincis Est tibi gamba capri crus Passeris latus Apri Os leports catuli nasus dens gena muli Frons vetule tauri caput color vndique Mauri His argumentis quibus est argutia mentis Quod non a Monstro differs satis hic tibi monstro Walter of Exon a Franciscane Frier of Carocus in Cornwall at the request of Baldwin of Exon de formed the Historie of Guy of VVar wick Godfrey surnamed of Cornwall was about that time a cunning Schoole-man and Diuinitie Reader in Paris VVilliam de Grenefild from the Deanry of Chichester stepped to the Chauncellorship of England and Archbishoprick of York vnder K. E. the first In Ed. the seconds daies one Geffrey of Cornwall is remembred for a writer Iohn Treuisa a Cornishman liued in R. the 2. raigne translated diuers books into English King Henry the fift not vnmindfull of the ciuiller Arts amongst his Martiall exployts founded an Vniuersitie at Caen in Normandie appointed Michael Tregury of Cornwall for his rare gifts in learning to bee Gouernour thereof In Henry the sixts time Iohn Skewish compiled certaine abbridgements of Chronicles and the warres of Troy King Henry the 7. promoted Iohn Arundel for his learning to the sea of Excester Neither is Thomas Triuet to bee forgotten as a writer though he haue grauē his memory in a fairer letter by building the costly bridge at Bridge-water of which sometimes he was Lord. Within our remembrance Cornwall hath bred or harboured Diuines graced with the degree of Doctorship Moreman Tremayn Nichols and Rolls Bachelers Medhope Stowel Moore Denis Of Preachers the shire holdeth a number plentifull in regard of other shires though not competent to the full necessitie of their owne all commendably labouring in their vocation though not endowed with an equal ability to discharge the same In the Ciuil law there liued of late Doctor Kennals now doth Doctor Carew one of the ancientest masters of the Chauncerie in which calling after his yonger yeres spent abroad to his benefit he hath reposed himselfe Bachelers there are Carnsew Kete Denis Barristers at the Common law Chiuerton Tremayne Skawn Michel Moyle Courtnay Tub Treffry Sayer These testifie the honesty of their cariage by the mediocrity of their estate and if they will giue me leaue to report a iest doe verify an old Gentlemans prophesie who said that there stood a man at Polston bridge the first entrance into Cornwall as you passe towards Launceston where the Assizes are holden with a blacke bill in his hand ready to knock downe all the great Lawyers that should offer to plant themselues in that Countie In earnest whether it be occasioned through the coūtries pouerty or by reason of the far distance thereof frō the supremer Courts or for that the multiplicity of petty ones neere at hand appertaining to the Duchy Stannary and Franchises doe enable the attourneyes and such like of small reading to serue the peoples turne and so curtall the better studied Counsellours profiting once certayne it is that few men of Law haue either in our time or in that of our forefathers growne heere to any supereminent height of
curing of mad men and amongst the rest one at Alternunne in this Hundred called S. Nunnes poole which Saints Altar it may be by pars pro toto gaue name to the Church and because the maner of this bowssening is not so vnpleasing to heare as it was vneasie to feele I wil if you please deliuer you the practise as I receyued it from the beholders The water running from S. Nunnes well fell into a square and close walled plot which might bee filled at what depth they lifted Vpon this wall was the franticke person set to stand his backe towards the poole and from thence with a sudden blow in the brest tumbled headlong into the pond where a strong fellowe prouided for the nonce tooke him and tossed him vp and downe alongst and athwart the water vntill the patient by forgoing his strength had somewhat forgot his fury Then was hee conueyed to the Church and certaine Masses sung ouer him vpon which handling if his right wits returned S. Nunne had the thanks but if there appeared small amendment he was bowssened againe and againe while there remayned in him any hope of life for recouery It may be this deuice tooke original from that master of Bedlem who the fable saith vsed to cure his patients of that impatience by keeping them bound in pooles vp to the middle and so more or lesse after the fit of their fury Trigge Hundred THe name of Trig in Cornish signifieth an Inhabitant howbeit this Hundred cannot vaunt any ouer-large scope or extaordinarie plenty of dwellings his chiefe towne is Bodmyn in Cornish Bos venna commonly termed Bodman which by illusion if not Etimology a man might not vnaptly turne into Badham for of all the townes in Cornwall I holde none more healthfully seated then Saltash or more contagiously then this It consisteth wholly in a maner of one street leading East and West welneere the space of an Eastern mile whose South side is hidden from the Sunne by an high hill so neerely coasting it in most places as neither can light haue entrance to their staires nor open ayre to their other roomes Their back houses of more necessary then cleanly seruice as kitchins stables c. are clymed vp vnto by steps and their filth by euery great showre washed downe thorow their houses into the streetes The other side is also ouerlooked by a great hill though somewhat farther distant and for a Corollarium their conduit water runneth thorow the Churchyard the ordinary place of buriall for towne and parish It breedeth therefore little cause of maruaile that euery generall infection is here first admitted last excluded yet the many decayed houses proue the towne to haue bene once very populous and in that respect it may stil retaine the precedence as supported by a weekly market the greatest of Cornwall the quarter Sessions for the East diuision and halfe yeerely faires The iurisdiction thereof is administred by a Maior and his brethren and vpon warrant of their Charter they claime authoritie to take acknowledgement of statute bonds In former times the Bishop of Cornwall as I haue elsewhere related held his See at S. Petroe's in this towne vntill the Danish pirats firing their Palace forced them to remoue the same with their residence vnto S. Germans They were succeeded by a Priory and Friery which later serued a while as a house of correction for the shire but with greater charge then benefit or continuance For other accidents I find that Perkyn Warbecke after his landing in the West parts of Cornwall made this towne the Rendez vous of his assembling forces for atchieuing his alike deseruing and speeding enterprise against King Henry the seuenth Hither also in the last commotion flocked the Rebels from all quarters of the shire pitching their campe at the townes end and here they imprisoned such Gentlemen as they had plucked out of their holdes and houses vntill the fortune of warre gaue verdit with the right of iustice for their well deserued euill speeding Sir Anthony Kingston then Prouost-marshall of the Kings armie hath left his name more memorable then commendable amongst the townsemen for causing their Maior to erect a gallowes before his owne doore vpon which after hauing feasted Sir Anthony himselfe was hanged In like sort say they he trussed vp a millers man thereby for that he presented himselfe in the others stead saying he could neuer do his master better seruice But mens tongues readily inclined to the worst reports haue left out a part of the truth in this tale that the rest might carrie the better grace For Sir Anthony did nothing herein as a Iudge by discretion but as an officer by direction and besides hee gaue the Maior sufficient watchwordes of timely warning large space of respite more then which in regard of his owne perill he could not afford to shift for safety if an vneschewable destiny had not haltered him to that aduancement As for the millers man he equalled his master in their common offence of rebellion and therefore it deserued the praise of mercy to spare one of the two and not the blame of crueltie to hang one for another I should perhaps haue forgotten the free schoole here maintayned by her Maiesties liberalitie were I not put in mind thereof through afore-halsening of this rebellion by an action of the schollers which I will report from some of their owne mouthes About a yeere before this sturre was raysed the schollers who accustomably diuide themselues for better exploiting their pastimes grewe therethrough into two factions the one whereof they called the olde religion the other the new This once begunne was prosecuted amongst thē in all exercises and now and then handled with some egernesse and roughnes each partie knowing and still keeping the same companions and Captaine At last one of the boyes conuerted the spill of an olde candlesticke to a gunne charged it with powder and a stone and through mischance or vngraciousnesse therewith killed a calfe whereupon the owner complayned the master whipped and the diuision ended By such tokens sometimes wonderfull sometimes ridiculous doth God at his pleasure foreshewe future accidents as in the Planets before the battell at Thrasimenus betweene Hannibal and the Romanes by the fighting together of the Sunne and Moone In birds what time Brute brought forth the remnant of his army at Philippi against Caesar and Anthony by the furious biekering betweene two Eagles In men against the destruction of Hierusalem by the encountring of Chariots and armies in the ayre And before Alexanders battel with Darius first by a casual skirmish of the camp-straglers vnder two Captaines borrowing the names of those Princes and then by Alexanders voluntary setting those Captaines to a single combat Yea to bring these examples neerer home the like hath hapned both before and sithence amongst boyes in other places When Caesar was departed from Rome to try
amidst his foes By courage guided sought and scapt his death Loe here amongst his friends whom liking chose And nature lent hath vp resign'd his breath Vnripened fruit in grouth precious in hope Rare in effect had fortune giuen scope Our eyes with teares performe thine obsequy And hearts with sighes since hands could yeeld none aid Our tongues with praise preserue thy memory And thing his with grieft since we behind are staid Coswarth farewell death which vs parts atwaine E're long in life shall vs conioyne againe His sister maried Kendall Edward his vncle and heire by vertue of these entayles married the daughter of Arundel of Trerice and from a ciuill Courtiers life in his younger yeeres reposeth his elder age on the good husbandry of the country hauing raised posterity sufficient for transplanting the name into many other quarters He beareth A. on a Cheuron betweene three wings B. fiue Bezants Against you haue passed towards the West somewhat more then a mile Trerice anciently Treres oftreth you the viewe of his costly and commodious buildings What Tro is you know already res signifieth a rushing of fieeting away and vpon the declyning of a hill the house is seated In Edward the 3. raigne Ralphe Arundel matched with the heire of this land and name since which time his issue hath there continued and encreased their liuelyhood by sundry like Inheritours as S. Iohn Iew Durant Thurlebear c. Precisely to rip vp the whole pedigree were more tedious then behoouefull and therefore I will onely as by the way touch some fewe poynts which may serue in part to shew what place regard they haue borne in the Common wealth There was an Indenture made betweene Hugh Courtney Earle of Deuon Leiutenant to the King for a sea voyage in defence of the Realme and Sir Iohn Arundel of Trerice for accompanying him therein He was Sherife of Cornwall Iohn Earle of Huntingdon vnder his seale of Armes made Sir Iohn Arundel of Trerice Seneshall of his houshold as well in peace as in warre gaue him ten pound fee and allowed him entertaynment in his house for one Gentleman three Yeoman one boy and sixe horses The same Earle stiling himselfe Lieutenant generall to Iohn Duke of Bedford Constable and Admirall of England wrote to the said Sir Iohn Arundel then Vice-admirall of Cornwall for the release of a ship which hee had arrested by vertue of his office The Queene by her letter aduertised Iohn Arundel of Trerice Esquire that she was brought in child-bed of a Prince The King wrote to Sir Iohn Arundel of Trerice that he should giue his attendance at Canterbury about the entertaynment of the Emperour whose landing was then and there expected Iohn Arundel of Trerice Esquire tooke prisoner Duncane Campbell a Scot in a fight at sea as our Chronicle mentioneth concerning which I though it not amisse to insert a letter sent him from Tho. Duke of Norfolke to whom he then belonged that you may see the stile of those dayes By the Duke of Norf. RIght welbeloued in our hearty wise we commend vs vnto you letting you with that by your seruant this bearer wee haue receiued your letters dated at Truru the 5. day of this moneth of April by which we perceyue the goodly valiant and ieopardous enterprise it hath pleased God of late to send you by the taking of Duncane Camel other Scots on the sea of which enterprise we haue made relation vnto the Kings Highnesse who is not a little ioyous and glad to heare of the same and hath required vs instantly in his name to giue you thanks for your said valiant courage and bolde enterprise in the premises and by these our letters for the same your so doing we doe not onely thanke you in our most effectuall wise but also promise you that during our life wee will bee glad to aduaunce you to any preferment we can And ouer this you shall vnderstand our said Soueraigne Lords pleasure is that you shall come and repaire to his Highnes with diligence in your owne person bringing with you the said Captiue and the Master of the Scottish ship at which time you shall not onely be sure of his especiall thanks by mouth to know his further pleasure therein but also of vs to further any your reasonable pursuits vnto his Highnes or any other during our life to the best of our power accordingly Written at Lambeth the 11. day of Aprill aforesaid Superscribed To our right welbeloued seruant Iohn Arundell of Trerice The King wrote to Sir Iohn Ar. of Trerice touching his discharge from the Admiralty of the fleete lately committed vnto him that he should deliuer the ship which he sayled in to Sir Nic. Poynts The same yere the King wrote to him againe that he should attend him in his warres against the French king with his seruants tenants and others within his roomes and offices especially horsemen Other letters from the King there are whose date is not expressed neither can I by any meanes hunt it out One to his seruant Iohn Arundel of Trerice Esquire willing him not to repaire with his men and to wayte in the rereward of his army as hee had commaunded him but to keepe them in a readinesse for some other seruice Another to Sir Iohn Arundel of Trerice praying and desiring him to the Court the Quindene of Saint Hillarie next wheresoeuer the King shall then bee within the Realme There are also letters directed to Sir Iohn Arundell of Trerice from the Kings Counsell by some of which it appeareth that hee was Vice admirall of the Kings shippes in the West seas and by others that hee had the goods and lands of certaine Rebels giuen him for his good seruice against them The Queene wrote to Sir Iohn Arundell of Trerice praying and requiring him that hee with his friends and neighbours should see the Prince of Spaine most honourably entertained if he fortuned to land in Cornwall Shee wrote to him being then Sherife of Cornwall touching the election of the Knights of the shire and the Burgesses for the Parliament Shee likewise wrote to him that notwithstanding the instructions to the Iustices hee should muster and furnish his seruants tenants and others vnder his rule and offices with his friends for the defence and quieting of the Countrie withstanding of enemies and any other imployment as also to certifie what force of horse and foote he could arme These few notes I haue culled out of many others Sir Iohn Arundell last mentioned by his first wife the coheire of Beuill had issue Roger who died in his fathers life time and Katherine married to Prideaux Roger by his wife Trendenham left behind him a sonne called Iohn Sir Iohns second wife was daughter to Erisy and widdow to Gourlyn who bare him Iohn his succeeder in Tretice and much other faire reuenewes whose due commendation because another might better