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Touching their particular denominations; where the Saxons haue not
intruded their newer vsances, they partake in some sort with their
kinsmen the Welsh: for as the Welshmen catalogize ap Rice, ap
Griffin, ap Owen, ap Tuder, ap Lewellin, &c. vntill they end in the
highest of the stock, whom their memorie can reach vnto: So the
Westerne Cornish, by alike, but more compendious maner, intitle one
another with his owne & his fathers christen name, and conclude with
the place of his dwelling; as Iohn, the sonne of Thomas, dwelling at
Pendaruis, is called Iohn Thomas Pendaruis. Rich. his yonger brother
is named, Richard Thomas Pendaruis, &c. Through which meanes, diuers
Gent. and others haue changed their names, by remoouing their
dwellings, as Trengoue to Nance, Bonithon, to Carclew, two brethren
of the Thomasses, the one to Carnsew, the other to Rescrowe, and
many other.
Most of them begin with Tre, Pol, or Pen, which signifie a Towne,
a Top, and a head: whence grew the common by-word.
By Tre, Pol, and Pen,
You shall know the Cornishmen.


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