On the seaclifs groweth great plenty of the best Ore-wood,
to satisfie the owners want, and accommodate his neighbours.
A little below the house, in the Summer euenings, Sayne-boates come
and draw with their nets for fish; whither the gentry of the house
walking downe, take the pleasure of the sight, and sometimes at
all aduentures, buy the profit of the draughts. Both sides of the
forementioned narrowe entrance, together with the passage betweene,
(much haunted as the high way to PIymmouth) the whole towne
of Stonehouse, and a great circuit of the land adioyning,
appertaine to M. Edgecumbs inheritance: these sides are fenced
with blockhouses, and that next to Mount Edgecumb, was wont to be
planted with ordinance, which at coming & parting, with their base
voices greeted such ghests as visited the house, neither hath the
opportunity of the harbour wanted occasions to bring them, or the
owners a franke mind to inuite them. For proofe whereof, the earst
remembred Sir Ric. (a gentleman in whom mildnes & stoutnes,
diffidence & wisdome, deliberatenes of vndertaking, & sufficieney
of effecting, made a more commendable, then blazing mixture of vertue)
during Q.
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