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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

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

thousand pound. Moreouer, in those works which are of
his owne particular inheritance, hee continually keepeth at work,
three hundred persons or thereabouts, & the yerely benefit, that out
of those his works accrueth to her Maiestie, amounteth,
communibus annis, to one thousand pound at the least, and sometimes
to much more. A matter very remorceable, and perchaunce not
to be matched againe by any of his sort and condition in the
whole Realme. He succeeded to the inheritance [154] of his vnkle
Sir William Godolphin, who, as hath bene said before, demeaned
himselfe verie valiantly in a charge which hee bare at Boloigne,
towards the latter end of the reigne of King Henry the 8. & is like
to leaue the same to another Sir William his sonne, who giueth hope,
not onely of the sustaining, but increasing of the reputation of
his family. Hee matched with Killigrew, his father with Bonython,
his Graund-father with Glynne,
Diuers other Gentlemen there dwell in this Hundred, as Lanyne,
the husband of Kekewitch, his father married Militon, and beareth
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