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

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

Garrison vpon the Hawe at Plymmouth and at her great charges with some litte helpe of the Countrie added an increase of fortification and souldiers to Pendenis Howbeit his greatest strength consisteth in Sir Nicholas Parker the Gouernour who demeaning himselfe no lesse kindly and frankly towards his neighbours for the present then hee did resolutely and valiantly against the enemie when he followed the warres therethrough commaundeth not onely their bodies by his authoritie but also their hearts by his loue to liue and die in his assistance for their common preseruation and her Highnesse seruice hee beareth B. Frettie and A. a Fesse O. After the declining hill hath deliuered you downe from this Castle Arwenacke entertaineth you with a pleasing view for the same standeth so farre within the Hauens mouth that it is protected from the sea stormes and yet so neere thereunto as it yeeldeth a ready passage out Besides the Cliffe on which the house abbutteth is steepe enough to shoulder off the waues and the ground about it plaine and large enough for vse and recreation It is owed by Master Iohn Killigrew who married the daughter of Monck and heire to her mother and was sonne to Sir Iohn Killigrew who matched with Woluerstone the stocke is ancient and diuers of the branches as I haue elsewhere remembred growne to great aduancement in calling and liuely-hood by their greater desert their Armes are A. an Eagle with two heads displayed within a bordure Bezanty S. Somewhat aboue Arwenacke Trefuses point diuideth the harbour and yeeldeth a seuerall Ankering place on eche side there of the one called Carrack rode the other kings rode This Promontory is possessed and inhabited by a Gentleman of that name who suitably to his name giueth three Fusils for his coat in this sort A. a Cheuron betweene three Fusils S. He maried the coheire of Gaurigan and M. Wil. Godolphin late yonger brother to Sir Frauncis her other sister Vpon the left hand from hence at the top of a creek Perin towne hath taken vp his seat rather passable then noteable for wealth buildings and Inhabitants in all which though neerer the hauens thouth it giueth Truro the preeminence the like whereof I obserue touching diuers other townes of the same situation in Deuon as Salcomb and kings bridge Dartmouth and Totnes Tops●●…ain and Excester amongst which those that stand highest vp in the Countrey affoord therethrough a fitter oportunity of accesse from all quarters and so a speedyer and larger vent of their commodities In Perin was Glasney Colledge founded by Walter Brounscomb benefited by Iohn Graundson Bishops of Excester which See possesseth faire reuennues thereabouts Vpon another crecke on the same side Carclew hath after the Cornish maner welneere metamorphosed the name of Master Bonithon his owner into his owne He maried the daughter of Vinian his father of Killigrew his graundfather of Erisy and beareth A. a Cheuron betweene 3. Floures deluce S. With any memorable act or accident concerning this hauen I cannot acquaint you before my perting therefrom saue onely that Philip Arch-duke of Austriche during his voyage from Netherland towards Spayne his wiues kingdome was weather-driuen into Weymouth and with a kinde constraint receyued a more royall then welcome entertainment at the hands of King Henrie the 7. from which hee could not free himselfe but by redeeming his libertie with De la Pooles captiuity This accomplished he made ehoyce to take ship againe at Falmouth that so by the shortest eut hee might leaue least power in fortune to thwart him any second incumbrance Hailford so called of the fordable riuer Haill if elsewhere placed would carry the reputation of a good harbour but as it now standeth Falmouths ouer-neere neighbourhood lesseneth his vse and darkeneth his reputation as quitting it onely to the worst sort of Sea-farers I meane Pirats whose guilty brests with an eye in their backs looke warily how they may goe out ere they will aduenture to enter and this at vnfortifyed Hailford cannot be controlled in which regard it not vnproperly brooketh his more common terme of Helford and the nick-name of Stealfoord His shores affoord commodious seates to the dwellings of Reskimer who maried S. Abin and beareth B. 3. barres A. in chiefe a Wolfe passant of the first and Tregose who matched with Kendal his sonne with Erisy and beareth B. two barres Gemewes in chiefe a Lyon passant O. armed and langued G. And if your eares be not already cloyed with relation of wonders I will let you vnderstand how I was once carried to see one hereabouts It is forsooth a great rock lying vpon the ground his top deepned to a hollownesse not much vnlike in fashion but far exceeding in proportion the long halfe of an egge This they say holdeth water which ebbeth and floweth as the sea and indeed when I came thither the tide was halfe out and the pit halfe empty By it there stands a Chappell to it there belonged a couer so as the same seemed in former times to cary some regard But I haue heard credible persons so discredit this woonder that I dare not offer it you as probable much lesse thrust it vpon you as approoued The name thereof is Hanterdauis which turning d to t signifieth halfe a tongue More certaine though lesse wonderfull and yet for the strangenesse wel worth the viewing is Mainamber Mayne is a rocke amber as some say signifyeth Ambrose And a great rocke the same is aduaunced vpon some others of a meaner size with so equall a counterpeyze that the push of a finger will sensibly moue it too and fro but farther to remooue it the vnited forces of many shoulders are ouer-weake Wherefore the Cornish wonder-gatherer thus deservbeth the same BE thou thy mother natures worke Or proofe of Giants might Worthlesse and ragged though thou shew Yet art thou worth the sight This hugy rock one fingers force Apparently will moue But to remooue it many strengths Shall all like feeble prooue Helston in Cornish Hellaz in English the greene hall is a well seated and peopled towne priuiledged secundum vsum with the rest and one of the 4. Coynage places Vnder it runneth the riuer Lo whose passage into the sea is thwarted by a sandy banke which forceth the same to quurt back a great way and so to make a poole of some miles in compasse It breedeth a peculiar kind of bastard Trought in bignesse and goodnes exceeding such as liue in the fresh water but comming short of those that frequent the salt The foreremembred bank serueth as a bridge to deliuer wayfarers with a compendious passage to the other side howbeit sometimes with more haste then good speed for now and then it is so pressed on the inside with the increasing riuers waight and a portion of the vtter sand so washed downe by the waues that at a sudden out breaketh the vpper part of the poole and away goeth a