The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin; with Additions and Various Appendices, Volume 4J. B. Nichols and son, 1838 |
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Abbey alias ancient anno apud arms Arundale Bishop Bishop of Exeter Bishops of Lincoln BOASE Bodman bridge called Carew castle caullid cawled chapel church continet Cornish Cornubiæ creeke creke cummith daughter Devon distat Domesday Book doth Earl of Cornwall east ecclesia Edward Egloskerry ejus Exeter Falmouth Fawey Fowey fuit goith HALS hath haven heir hill honour hundred Ibid incipit incumbent Inquisition Itin Kerrier King Henry King's knight Launceston Leland litle Lord Lostwithiel manor married miles miliaria monks myles obiit parish Parliament in 1815 paroch chirch patronage Penryn pound Land Tax priory prope Property as returned rectory Richard river river Tamar rocks ryver Sancti Seynt side statute acres steppys stone Tamar Tavystoke ther thereof Thomas Tonkin toun town Tregony Treneglos Truro Truru tynne usque valued vicar vicarage villa villæ West Looe wher William
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Page 213 - Pendennis, by labour and much ado, caused to be undermined and thrown down, to the great grief of the country ; but to his own great glory, as he thought, doing it, as he said, with a small cane in his hand. I myself have heard him to boast of this act, being a prisoner then under him.
Page 292 - Of Albion's glorious isle the wonders whilst I write, The sundry varying soils, the pleasures infinite, (Where heat kills not the cold, nor cold expells the heat, The calms too mildly small, nor winds too roughly great, Nor night doth hinder day, nor day the night doth wrong, The summer not too short, the winter not too long...
Page 256 - Boscastelle lyith apon the brow of a rokky hille by south est, and so goith doun by lenght to the northe toward the se, but not even ful hard to it. It is a very filthy toun and il kept. There is a chirch in it, as I remembre, of S. Simpherian.
Page 348 - King all black and naked, and wounded through the midst of his breast. And adjuring the goat by the Holy Trinity to tell what that was he so carried, he answered, ' I am carrying your King to judgment, yea, that Tyrant William Rufus ; for I am an evil spirit and the revenger of his malice, which he bore to the Church of God ; and it was I that did cause this his slaughter ; the Protomartyr of England, S.
Page 305 - But, grapled, glowing fire shines in their sparkling eyes. And whilst at length of arm one from the other lies, Their lusty sinews swell like cables as they strive; Their feet such trampling make as though they forc'd to drive A thunder out of earth, which stagger'd with the weight.
Page 278 - Then a 3 miles by mory and hethy ground. Then 2 miles by hilly and woddy ground to Liscard. About half a mile or I cam to Liskard, I passid in a wood by a chapel of owr Lady, caullid " our Lady in the Park," wher was wont to be gret pilgrimage.
Page 208 - Uutchins, a person well known in those parts, and now lately dead, being parson of Ludgvan, a near neighbouring parish to St. Mardren's Well, he observing that many of his parishioners often frequented this well superstitiously, for which he reproved them privately, and sometimes publicly in his sermons ; but afterwards, he the said Mr. Hutchins, meeting with a woman coming from the well with a bottle in her hand, desired her earnestly that he might drink thereof, being then troubled with cholical...
Page 262 - Godolcan, on the top of an hille, wher is a diche, and there was a pile and principal habitation of the Godolcans. The diche yet apperith, and many stones of late time hath beene fetchid thens ; it is a 3.
Page 305 - And th' adverse (by a turn) doth from his cunning shift, ' Their short-fetcht troubled breath a hollow noise doth make ' Like bellows of a forge. Then Corin up doth take
Page 207 - Christ! evening, to lay some small offering on the altar there, and to lie on the ground all night, drink of the water there, and in the morning after to take a good draught more, and to take and carry away some of the water, each of them in a bottle, at their departure. This course these two men followed, and within three weeks they found the effect of it, and, by degrees their strength increasing, were able to move themselves on crutches. The year following they took the same course...