To which (through want of a probable Etymon) I may, in part, resemble
the hundred of Powder, not only for the names sake, but also because
this parcel of the Cornish earth extendeth it selfe wider, and
compriseth more parishes, then any other Hundred of the shire,
as stretching East. and West, from Foy to Falmouth: and South
and North, welnere from one sea to the other.
In describing the same, we must begin where we left, to wit, at
Foy hauen, in Cornish, Foath. It receyueth this name of the riuer,
and bestoweth the same on the town. His entrance is garded with
Block-houses, & that on the townes side, as also the towne it selfe,
fortified & fenced with ordinance. The commendation of which
industry, is principally due to the prouidence and direction of M.
Wil. Treffry, a Gent. that hath vowed his rare gifts of learning,
wisdome, & courage, to the good of his country, & made proofe thereof
in many occurrents, & to whose iudicious corrections, these my notes
haue bin not a little beholden. His faire & ancient house,
Castle-wise builded [135] and sufficiently flanked, ouerlooketh the
towne and hauen with a pleasant prospect, and yet is not excluded
from the healthfull ayre, and vse of the country, which occasioned
his auncestours (though endowed elsewhere, with large reuennues,
of their owne and their wiues inheritance) for many descents, to make,
here their ordinary residence, as is witnessed by their toombe-stones,
which I haue seen in the church.
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