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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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

In this sort he continued for diuers yeeres,
vntill (vpon I wot not what veake, or vnkindnesse) away he gets,
and abroad he rogues: which remitter brought him the end, to his
foredeferred, and not auoyded destiny: for as vnder a hedge hee was
found pyning, so under a hedge he found his miserable death,
through penury.
Sir Williams father maried the daughter of Militon: his graundfather,
the daughter and heire of Bear, whose liuelyhood repayred what the
elder brothers daughters had impaired. The Beuils Armes are A. a Bull
passant G. armed and tripped O.
In the same parish where Killigarth is seated, Master Murth
inheriteth a house and demaynes. Hee maried Treffry; his father,
Tregose. One of their auncestours, [132] within the memorie of a
next neighbour to the house, called Prake, (burdened with 110. yeeres
age) entertained a British miller, as that people, for such
idle occupations, proue more handie, then our owne. But this fellowes
seruice befell commodious in the worst sense. For when, not long
after his acceptance, warres grewe betweene vs & France, he stealeth
ouer into his countrey, returneth priuily backe againe, with a
French crew, surprizeth suddenly his master, and his ghests, at a
Christmas supper, carrieth them speedily vnto Lantreghey, and forceth
the Gent, to redeemme his enlargement, with the sale of a great part
of his reuenewes.


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