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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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

Amongst whom, I may not omit the yongest brother,
whose well qualified and sweete pleasing sufficiency draweth him
out from this cloyster, to conuerse with and assist his friends,
and to whose sounder iudgement, I owe the thankful acknowledgement
of [128] many corrected slippings in these my notes. The armes
of this family are thus blasoned, S. a Goat passant. A. attired and
trippled 0.
Roscarrock, in Cornish, meaneth a flower, and a rock, in English.
Roses are his armes, and the North rocky clifs, which bound his
demaines, perhaps added the rest. The heire hath issue by the
daughter of Treuanion. His father maried the sole Inheritrix
to Pentire, whose dwelling, Pentuan, is seated on the South sea,
so as he might make vse of either climate for his residence.
The family is populous; but of them two brothers, Hugh, for his
ciuill carriage, and kinde hospitality, and Nicholas for his
industrious delight in matters of history and antiquity, doe merit
a commending remembrance. They beare A. a Cheuron betweene 2.


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