Vpon one side hereof, Master Arundel of Trerice possesseth a
pleasant-seated house, and demaines, called Efford, alias Ebbingford,
and that not vnproperly, because euerie low water, there affordeth
passage to the other shore: but now it may take a new name, for his
better plight: for this Gentleman hath, to his great charges,
builded a Salt-water mill, athwart this Bay, whose causey serueth,
as a verie conuenient bridge to saue the way-farers former trouble,
let, and daunger. It is receiued by tradition, that his belsire,
Sir Iohn Arundel, was forewarned, by a wot not what Calker. how he
should bee slaine on the sands. For auoyding which encounter,
hee alwaies shunned Efford, & dwelt at Trerice, another of his houses.
But, as the prouerb sayth, Fata viam inuenient, and as experience
teacheth mens curiosity, Fato viam sternit. It hapned, that what
time the Earle of Oxford surprized S. Michaels mount by policy,
and kept the same by strong hand, this Sir Iohn Arundel was Sherife
of Cornwall, wherethrough, vpon duety of his office, and commaundement
from the Prince, hee marched thither, with posse Comitatus,
to besiege it, and there, in a Skirmish on the sands, which deuide
the mount from the continent, he fulfilled the effect of the prophecy,
with the losse of his life, and in the said mounts Chappell
lieth buried.
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