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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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

Such was Keby son to Solomon prince of Cor. such
Peran, who if my author
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the Legend lye not) after that (like another Iohannes de temporibus)
he had liued two hundred yeres with perfect health, tooke his last
rest in a Cornish parish, which therethrough he endowed with his name.
And such were Dubslane, Machecu, & Manslunum, who (I speake vpon Math.
of Westm. credit) forsooke Ireland, thrust themselues to sea, in a
Boat made of three Oxe skinnes and a halfe, with seuen daies victuall,
and miraculously arriued in Cornwall.
Of Cornishmen, whose industrie in learned knowledges hath recommended
their fame to their posterity, these few as yet are onely come to my
notice: [1170] Iohn of Cornwall, a student at Rome, and other places
in Italy, wrote of the Incarnation of Christ, against Peter Lumbard,
and dedicated the same to Pope Alexander the third, by whom he was
highly fauoured.
[1201] Simon Thurnay, after he had out-gone all the Oxford schollers
in prophane learning (sayth the commendably paynefull Antiquarie,
and my kind friend, Master Hooker) passed from thence to Paris,
and there so profited in the study of diuinitie, that he attayned
the chiefest place amongst the profound Sorbonists.


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