The like may bee sayd of rootes,
and sallets for the table, saue that (I suppose) Cornewall naturally
bringeth forth greater store of Seaholm and Sampire, then is found in
any other County of this Realme. The Seaholme roote preserueth eyther
in sirrup, or by canding, is accepted for a great restoratiue. Some
of the gaully grounds doe also yeeld plenty of Rosa solis. Moreouer
natures liberall hand decketh many of the sea cliffes with wilde
Hissop, Sage, Pelamountayne, Maiorum, Rosemary, and such like
well-fauouring herbes.
In times past, the Cornish people gaue themselues principally, (and in
a maner wholly) to the seeking of Tynne, and neglected husbandry: so
as the neighbours of Deuon and Sommerset shires, hired their pastures
at a rent, and stored them with theyr owne cattell.
As for tillage, it came farre short of feeding the Inhabitants
mouthes, who were likewise supplyed weekely at their markets from
those places, with many hundred quarters of corne and horseloades of
bread. But when the Tynneworkes began to fayle, and the people
to increase, this double necessitie draue them to play the good
husbands, and to prouide corne of their owne.
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