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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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

He beareth for his Armes, G.
a Moyle passant, Ar. a part of this parish confineth on the maine sea
& offreth a faire landing place, called Seaton, howbeit, by a
handsome fence forbidding any foes inuasion: it is ouerlooked,
vpon the one side of the riuer (which there dischargeth his streame
into the Ocean) by Keuerel, the ancient house of the Langdons, Gent,
in former times, of faire reuennues, whose Armes are Ar. a Cheuron
betweene 3. Beares heads erased Sa. The house perhaps, borowing his
name of Cheuereul, a French word, signifying a wild Goat (as those
high clifs affoord them a commodious inhabitance) and on the other,
by Tregonnock, the dwelling of M. Tho. Smith, who in a quiet and
honest retirednes, findeth that contentment, which many ambitious
heads, far and wide doe vainely seeke for: hee maried Tremayn:
his father Robert [blank] one of the daughters and heires to
Killigrew: and his sonne Iohn, Priscilla the daughter of
M. Geo. Wadham. His Armes, B. a Saultier Ar. betweene 4. Martlets O.


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