Magna Britannia

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MAGNA BRITAN N A
I ;
BEING
A CONCISE TOP OGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT
,THE SE VE R AL COUNTIE S
G R E A T B R I T A I N .
B the Rev. DANIE L LY SONS, A.M. F.R.S. E A. and LS.
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RECTOR OF RODMARTON IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE ;
And SAMUE L LY SONS, E SQ . and F.A.S.
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KEEPER OF HIS MAJESTY S RECORDS IN THE TOWER OF LONDON .
VOLUME THE THIRD
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CONTA I N I NG
COR N PVALL.
LOND O N
PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES IN THE STRAND .
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CONTE NT S
T HE T H I R D V O L UME.
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GENERAL HISTORY OF CORNWALL
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E t molo
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d ncient Inbabita nts Lan ua e and Government
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H or zea l E vents
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Ancient and modern Dov on o tkoCount
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E ccle
/ia/tiea l Jurfa iction a na Dwfi on oftbe County,
Ta ble o Pa ri tes
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Mone ter zes Colle e: a nd H itals
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Market and Borou lJ Towns
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Fa irs
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Po ulation
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Lon evit
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Div on Pro ert a t tbe Time o tloe Donze aa Surve
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Princi a l Land/Bolder; a t va rious Periods
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Nobili t the Count
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E arldonz o Cornwa ll
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Corni o Families wbielo ba ve been ennobled
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E xtine? Peerx a nd Baronial Families
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Noblenzen s Sea te
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Ma i om extineZ Peers
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Ba ronemo Cornwall
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E xtincl Ba ronets
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Ba ronets Sean
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Cornz b Gentr
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EntinéZ Fanzzlzey
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Gentlemen s Seats
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Deer-Pa rks
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vi C O N TE NT S.
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Geo
grapbica l and Geological De/cription of ibe County, clxxxi. Bounda riis,
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E xtent
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c lxxx iii . Rivers
, clxxxv. Lakes, clxxxix . Navigable Canals, cxc.
Roads cxci .
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Na tura l H
ytory, cxciv. Fojzls and Minera ls, cxc iv. Indigenous Plants, cxcviii
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Bi rds Es c. cc. Mineral Waters a nd remarkable Wells cci.
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P roduce cciii
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Mani a étures c cxiii
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Tr ade a nd P orts ibid.
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fi ntz uities c cxvi
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fioand Briti/b-Roman fl ntiguities, ccxvi. Cir cles ofStones, ccxvn. Rounds,
c cxviii . Ba rrows Cromlechs ccx ix . Celts ibid. Caves ccxx.
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Coins Efl c. ccx xi In cribed Stones ibid.
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Roman d nti uities ccxxm. Roman Rodds and Stations ccxxv.
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Ancient Cburcb Arcbitecture
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fi ncient a inted Gla s
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Roodl s Screens EDc.
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Fonts
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Ancient Se ulcbral Monuments
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Rema ins Mon tic Buildin s
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C lles a nd Sites G iles
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fi ncient Ma on bo es
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d ncient Cr fes
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VVell Cba els
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Cam s a nd E arth works
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M ella neous Anti uities
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C zoms a nd Su e titions 350
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PAROCHIAL HISTORY
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Scill I la nd
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A endix 8 . L Z Corni b Manors tbe Situation wbicb
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bas not been c cer tained
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fi ddi tzons a nd Correclions
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Index o Names a nd Titles
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Genera l Index
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Erra ta
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L I S T O F P LAT E S.
I. Ma ofCornwal l,
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II. Curclaée Tin mine,
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I II. View ofthe Land s end
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IV. View ofCa
pe Cornwal l and the Land s end,
V. Kynans Cove
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VI. Caftle-Trer n,
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VII. Rocks at Calfte Trer
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VIII. Rock ca l led the Cheefe Wrin ,
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IX. North View ofRoche Rock and Cha
pel,
X. South-E ait View ofRoche Rock and Hermita e
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XI. Tinta el Rock and Cattle
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XII. Chfin-Cromlech
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XIII . Infcxibed Stones,
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XIV. Ornament ofC old
, found near Penzance,
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XV. S ecimens ofSaxon Architeétural Ornaments
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XVI. Part ofLauncefton Church
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XVII. Stone Pul it in E lofha le Church Sec.
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XVIII . Font in Bodmin Chu rc h
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XIX. Anc ient Fonts in the Corniih Churches l. 1 .
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XXI. View of St. Benet s Monafter near Lanivet
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XXII. Plan Sec . ofLauncefton Cattle
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XXIII. Trematon Caftle
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XXIV. Tinta e l Cattle
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XXV. Ca i noré Cattle with a diftant View of Redruth
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XXVI. Part of Place Houfe
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XXVII. The Court ofCothele Houfe from the Gateway
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XXVIII. Ancient Croe s
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XXIX Plan ofEartfi works cal led Caille Andir as an.
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Burrows ccxlix
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viii L I S T O F PL AT E S.
XXX. North View ofFalmouth
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XXXI. Sou th View ofFalmouth
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XXXII. Fa lmouth Haven
, 8512. froma Chart drawn 1n the rei n
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g Henry VIII., preferved 1n the Britifh Mufeum,
XXXIII. Fowey Haven
, Sec . from the fame Chart,
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XXXIV. South-E aft View of St.Michael s Mount
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XXXV. Eafl: View ofSt. Michael s Mount
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XXXVI. View ofLauncefion Cattle
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XXXVII. North-Eait View of Roche Rock and Hermita e with
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a Plan ofthe Cha e l and Hermita e
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XXXVIII. Trematon Callie fromthe River L nher
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C O R N W A LL.
GENERAL HISTORY .
E TYMOLOGY .
ICHARD ofCirenceiter fays that this county took itsname fromthe Carna
bzi
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it is more
probable on the contrary, that thofe people took their name from
that of the country they inhabited : the truth feems to be that the country w
as
cal led by its antient inhabitants
, Kernou, or as the Welch write it, Kerniw, or the
Horn
, from its prO
Jeéting promontories ; that it was latiniz ed to Ca rnubia or
Cornubia
; that when the Saxons ave the name ofWea las to the Britons they
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diftin uifhed thofe who had retired into Kernou or Cornubia by
the name of
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Corn wea la s
; and their country was thus cal led Cornuwall or Cornwal l : that is
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Cornilh-Wales.
fl attent Inbabitants
, Lan
guage, and Government.
FROM the ma
p of Roman Britain, i t appears that the northern
part of this
county
, as far as the river Camel and Padftow haven
, was antientl inhabited by
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a Britifh tribe cal led the Cimbri the eaitern
part, as far as Falmouth haven, by
the Da nmonii
, and the remainder by the Carnabii. Before the comin of the
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Romans, the Da nmonii had fubdued the two other tribes and ufur ed th
eir do
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minions . When the Romans divided Britain into fix
provinces, Cornwal l formed
part of Brita nnia Pr zma ; after their departure it became one of the lait retreats
of the Britons
, who feem to have been fometimes under the dominion of the
k in
gs ofWales, and fometimes to have been governed by inde
pendent fovereigns
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See Dr Borlale s A nti
qu ities, p. 3 25, and Wh1taker s Cathedral ofCornwall, I . 14, 1
5.
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See W h1taker s H1ilor
y ofManchefier, l . 94.
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