Lesnewith Hundred.
LEsnewith Hundred taketh his name of a parish therein (as Stratton
doth of a towne) memorable for nothing else. It may he deriued,
either from Les, which in Cornish signifieth broad, and newith,
which is new, as a new breadth, because it enlargeth his limits
farther into Cornwall on both sides, whereas Stratton is straightned
on the one by Deuon: or from Les and gwith, which importeth broad
Ashen trees, g, for Euphonias sake being turned into n.
The first place which heere offreth itselfe to sight, is Bottreaux
Castle, seated on a bad harbour of the North sea, & suburbed with a
poore market town, yet entitling the owner in times past, with the
stile of a Baron, from whom, by match it descended to the L.
Hungerford, & [121] resteth in the Earle of Huntingdon.
The diuersified roomes of a prison, in the Castle, for both sexes,
better preserued by the Inhabitants memorie, then descerneable
by their owne endurance, shew the same, heeretofore to haue exercised
some large iurisdiction.
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