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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

"The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue"

The first publishing of my Survey was voluntary;
the second, which I now purpose, is of necessity, not so
much for the enlarging it, as the correcting mine and the
Printers Oversights: and amongst these, the Arms not the
least, touching which mine Order, suitable to your Direction,
was not observed, and so myself made an Instrument, but
not the Author of Wrong and Error. I imagine that I may
cull out of Master Sollicitor's Garden many Flowers to
adorn this other Edition; and if I wist where to find
Mr. Norden, I would also fain have his Map of our Shire;
for perfecting of which, he took a Journey into these Parts."
Mr. Carew never published a second Edition of his Book, tho' he lived
fourteen Years after the writing of that Letter. And whether he left
behind him a Copy of it revised and corrected for a new Impression,
does not appear. It hath indeed been reported, that there was a Copy
extant with large Additions (O); but they don't tell us whose
Additions they are.


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