But our Countrymen
leauing reason & example, excuse themselues by destiny. In fatis
they say (& not in fatuis) it was, that the Cornish people should
vndergo this misfortune: for an ancient prophecy, in their owne
language, hath long run amongst them, how there should land vpon
the rock of Merlin, those that would burn Pauls Church, Pensants,
and Newlyn. And indeed, so is the rocke called, where the enemy
first stept on shore. The prophesy is this:
Ewra teyre a war meane Merlyn
Ara Lesky Pawle Pensanz ha Newlyn.
Not farre from the lands ende, there is a little village,
called Trebegean, in English, The towne of the Giants graue:
neere whereunto, and within memory (as I haue beene informed)
certayne workemen searching for Tynne, discouered a long square vault,
which contayned the bones of an excessiue bigge carkas, and verified
this Etimology of the name.
At Saint Buriens, a parish of great circuit, and like benefit to
the Incumbent, King Athelstane accomplished his vowe, in founding a
Colledge of Priests, what time he had conquered the Sillane Ilands.
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