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My first entrance must be by the hundred of East, so named for
his site, and therein, at Plymouth hauen. It borroweth that name
of the riuer Plym, which rising in Deuon, and by the way baptizing
Plymston, Plymstock, &c. here emptieth it selfe into the sea.
The hauen parteth Deuon and Cornwall welneere euery where, as Tamer
riuer runneth: I say welneere, because some few interlaced places
are excepted: a matter so sorted at the first partition, eyther to
satisfie the affection of some speciall persons, or to appropriate
the soyle to the former Lords, or that (notwithstanding this
seuerance) there might stil rest some cause of entercourse between
the Inhabitants of both Counties: as I haue heard, a late great man
ensued, and expressed the like consideration, in diuision of his
lands between two of his sonnes.
Now though this hauen thus bound both shires, yet doth the
iurisdiction of the water wholly appertayne to the Duchy of
Cornwall, and may therefore bee claymed as a part of that County.
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