Of later times, the Castle serued the Earle of Cornwall for one of
his houses; but now, that later is worm-eaten out of date and vse.
Coynages, Fayres, and markets, (as vitall spirits in a decayed bodie)
keepe the inner partes of the towne aliue, while the ruyned skirtes
accuse the iniurie of time, and the neglect of industrie.
S. Cleer parish, coasting Liskerd, brooketh his name by a more
percing, then profitable ayre, which in those open wastes,
scowreth away thrift, as well as sicknesse. Thither I rode, to take
view of an antiquitie, called The other halfe stone; which I found to
be thus: There are two moore stones, pitched in the ground, very neere
together, the one of a more broade then thicke squarenesse, about 8.
foote in height, resembling the ordinary spill of a Crosse,
and somewhat curiously hewed, with diaper worke. The other commeth
short of his fellowes length, by the better halfe, but, welneere,
doubleth it in breadth, and thickenesse, and is likewise handsomely
carued. They both are mortifed in the top, leauing a little edge at
the one side, as to accommodate the placing of somewhat else
thereupon.
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