In this Hundred, the rubble of certaine mines, and ruines of a fining
house, conuince Burchard Craneigh, the Duchmans vaine endeuour,
in seeking of siluer owre: howbeit, hee afterwards lighted on a
thriftier vayne, of practising phisike at London, where he grewe
famous, by the name of Doctor Burcot.
Killigarth, being interpreted in English, signifieth, He hath lost
his griping, or reaching: and by his present fortune, (in some sort)
iustifieth that name: for the same hath lately forgone
Sir William Beuill, whome it embraced as owner & Inhabitant, by his
sudden death, and is passed into the possession of the faire Lady
his widdow, by her husbands conueyance.
It yeeldeth a large viewe of the South coast, and was it selfe,
in Sir Williams life time, much visited, [131] through his
franke inuitings. The mention of this Knight, calleth to my
rememberance, a sometimes vncouth seruaunt of his, whose monstrous
conditions, partly resembled that Polyphemus, described by Homer and
Virgil, and liuely imitated by Ariosto, in his Orco: or rather,
that Egyptian Polyphagus, in whome (by Suetonius report) the
Emperour Nero tooke such pleasure.
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