I haue heard the Iudges note, that besides their ordinary paines,
they are troubled with more extraordinary supplications in Cornwall,
then in any other shire: whereto they yet giue no great encouragement,
while the causes are on the backside, poasted ouer to Gentlemens
hearing, and account seldome taken or made, what hath bene done
therein.
Verily, we must acknowledge, that ever since our remembrance, God hath
blessed this Westerne circuit with speciall choyce of vpright and
honest Iudges; amongst whom, this of our last is not the least:
for they doe so temper a quick conceit with a stayed iudgement,
a strict seuerity in punishing, with a milde mercy in remitting,
and an awfull grauitie at the Bench, with a familiar kindnesse
in conuersation, as they make proofe, that contrarie vertues may,
by the diuers wayes of loue and reuerence, meet in one onely poynt
of honour.
The common Gayle of the shire for offendours, is kept at Launceston:
for that statute, 33. H. 8. which amongst other shires, gaue the
Cornish Iustices leave to alter the same, by a Prouiso, tooke it
away againe, in that this keepership is annexed to the Constableship
of the Castle, and that graunted out in lease.
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