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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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

passed with an armie into
Fraunce, conquered there Armorica (naming it little Brittaine) and
gaue the same in fee to Conan; who being once peaceably setled,
wrote ouer vnto Dionethus, or Dionotus Duke or King of Cornwall,
(as Mathew of West, termeth him) to send him some Maidens, whom
he might couple in mariage with his people; whereon S. Vrsula & her
companions the 11000. virgins, were shipped, & miscaried, as their
wel known hiftory reporteth.
[page 78]
Nicholas Gille, a French writer, deliuereth (vpon the credit of our
British Historians) that about this time, Meroueus, a Paynim king of
Fraunce, caused his owne sonne to be throwne into the fire and burned,
for that he had slayne the king of Cornwall, as he returned from
a feast.
[433.]
Hee also maketh mention of one Moigne, brother to Aurelius and
Vter-pendragon, Duke of Cornwall, & gouerner of the Realme, vnder
the Emperour Honorius.
[443.]
Carodoc Duke of Cornwall was employed (sayth D. Kay) by Octauius,
about founding the Vniuersitie of Cambridge.


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