The voyd spaces be- tweene the round and square,
hee would haue turned to Cupboards and boxes, for keeping other
necessary vtensiles, towards these fishing feasts.
Ouer-against this pond, lyeth beggers Iland, so called (as our
neighbours relate) euer since my great grandsire espying 2. of that
idle occupation, at a hote combate on the shore, while he was rowing
homewards from Saltash, tooke them into his boat, & there set them
on land, to try (as in a lists) the vttermost of their quarrell:
which place they could not quit, vntil the low water should
enfranchise them by wading & the respite, vent out the alye fume
of their fury.
About 40. yeres agoe, it chanced, that a boat ouer-fraighted
with people, in rowing downe the riuer from Saltash market, was by
the extreme weather, sunk, neere to a place called Henpoint, and all
the folke drowned, sauing one onely woman, named Agnes, the wife of
one Cornish, whom it pleased God so to protect and direct, that in
her first popping vp againe (which most liuing things accustome)
shee espyed the boat (after it had discharged his burthen) risen
likewise, and floting by her, full of water, whereon she got holde,
sate astride vpon one of his sides, and by the winde and tyde,
was vnusually, and almost miraculously driuen athwart the chanell,
to a place called Wilcoue, where shee no sooner stepped ashore,
but the boat (as hauing done his enioyned errand) presently
recommited it selfe to the stormes disposition.
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