Whether this proceeded from a
naturall accident, or a working of the diuell, I will not vndertake
to define. It may bee, God giueth him such power ouer those,
who begin a matter, vpon couetousnesse to gaine by extraordinarie
meanes, and prosecute it with a wrong, in entring and breaking
another mans land, without his leaue, and direct the end thereof,
to the princes defrauding, whose prerogatiue challengeth these
casualties.
A little beyond Foy, the land openeth a large sandie drab Bay,
for the Sea to ouer-flow, which, and the village adioyning,
are therethrough aptly termed Trewardreth, in English, The
Sandie towne. Elder times, of more deuotion then knowledge,
here founded a religious house, which, in King Henrie the eights
raigne, vnderwent the common downefall.
I haue receiued credible information, that some three yeeres sithence,
certaine hedges deuiding a closse on the seaside hereabouts,
chanced, in their digging, vpon a great chest of stone,
artificially ioyned, whose couer, they (ouer-greedy for booty)
rudely brake, and therewithall a great earthen pot enclosed, which
was guilded and graued with letters, defaced by this misaduenture,
and ful of a black earth, the ashes (doubtles) as that, the vrna
of some famous personage.
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