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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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


Trenance added to his owne liuelyhood, the possessions of Littleton,
to whome, as sisters sonne, and generall heire, hee succeeded and
married Kendall, and his sonne Roscarrocke: hee beareth A. a Fesse,
betweene three Swords S.
There dwelleth also Master Tredenick, who matched with the daughter
of Viuian, and his father, of Marow, who beareth O. on a bend S.
three Buckes heads cabased A. As also Langherne B. a Cheuron
betweene 3. Escalops O. Burlace, A. on a bend S. two hands tearing
in sunder a horse-shooe of the field; and others.

Kerier Hundred.

KEry in Cornish, signifieth bearing: and yet you must beare with me,
if I forbeare to deriue Kerier herefrom, vntill I see some reason
for my warrant: wherefore leauing that, I will weaue on my former
webbe of Falmouth hauen; and first, a word or two touching the
same in generall, ere I descend to the yet vndescribed West side
in particular.
The riuer Fala, falling here, into the seas wide-gaping mouth,
hath endowed it with that name,
In the very entrance of the harbour lyeth a rocke, rather disgracing,
then endamaging the same: for with the ebbe it is discouered, and at
the flood, marked by a pole purposely fixed thereupon.


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