A little to the Westwards from Killigarth, the poore harbour and
village of Polpera coucheth betweene 2. steepe hils, where plenty of
fish is vented to the fish driuers, whom we call Iowters.
The warmth of this Hundred, siding the South, hath enticed many Gent.
here to make choyce of their dwellings, as M. Buller now Sherife
at Tregarrick, sometimes the Wideslades inheritance, vntill the
fathers rebellion forfeited it to the Prince; and the Princes
largesse rewarded therewith his subiects.
Wideslades sonne led a walking life with his harpe, to Gentlemens
houses, wherethrough, and by his other actiue qualities, he was
entitled, Sir Tristram; neither wanted he (as some say) a bele Isound,
the more aptly to resemble his patterne.
Master Buller married the daughter of one Williams, a Counsellour at
lawe in Deuon: his father, a younger branch of the ancient stocke,
planted in Somerset shire, tooke to wife the widdowe of Courtney,
and daughter and heire to Trethurffe; by whose dower, and his owne
indeuour, he purchased and left to his sonne, faire possessions,
but not vnencumbred with titles, which draue this Gentleman to salue
them all by new compositions with the pretenders: and for compassing
the same, to get an extraordinary experience in husbandry.
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