Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
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Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)
Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
But probably he will be better remembered by his 'Holy Limbeck,
or a Semi-Century of Spiritual Extractions,' and by his 'Holy
Arbour' than by either of the foregoing works, or by his 'Συνηγορος
Θαλασσιος [Greek: Synêgoros Thalassios], or a view of the Admiral's
Jurisdiction.' The title of the 'Holy Arbour' runs as follows, in the
fantastical, metaphorical style of the time:
'The Holy Arbour--contayning y^e whole Body of Divinity, or A Cluster
of Spirituall Grapes, gathered from the Vines of certaine Moderne and
Orthodox Laborers in the Lord's Viniard; Pressd For the Spirituall
delight and benefit of all such as thirst after Righteousness.'
And the Dedication, in similar vein, commences thus:
'To the Truly Honorable, the Poor in Spirit.
'Right Humble,
'The mighty Nazarite's Riddle, Out of the Eater came Meat, and out
of the Strong came Sweetness (Judg. xiv. 14) was the second course
served in at his Marriage Feast; which by way of Allusion may not
unaptly be applied to you. Came not the Spirit of God upon you at
the Conquest of that devouring Lyon, in the fierce Assults of his
ingenious Temptations? At your return from which Spiritual Combat,
began you not to feed on the Peace of Good Consciences, when the Word
of the Lord became as Honey in your mouthes? Is not this a Riddle to
the Uncircumcised of the World?
'In congratulation of which no common Victory, is this Address no less
properly then humbly prostrated to you onely, as the most faithful
Guardians of this Holy Arbor; whose unfenced Ambulage, when spiced
at your approach by the fragrancy of your Innocency, craves the
Subterfuge of your Prayers.'
Our author died in 1678, in or near Fleet Street, and was buried in
the north aisle of St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, leaving one son,
Francis, who died in 1695, and who was buried with his wife, Grace,
at St. Columb Major: down to within the last hundred years their
descendants have hovered round the neighbourhood, and found like
resting-place for their remains.
We must now revert to that branch of the family which comprises, as I
have said, its more distinguished members, and which sprang from the
union of Sir William Godolphin (who died and was buried at Breage
in 1613) with Thomasine Sidney, of Wrighton in Norfolk, a lady who
bequeathed her maiden surname to many of her descendants down to the
present day.
One of their sons, Sidney, uncle of a yet more illustrious namesake,
was killed in a skirmish during the Civil War, on Dartmoor, in
February, 1643.[153] The Parliamentary forces had been defeated at
Boconnoc, and Hopton thereupon 'flew with a party volant' towards
Plymouth. His army, however, received a temporary check at Chagford;
but Sir John Berkeley at length drove out the Parliamentary forces
who quartered in that little village; and here the brave young Sidney
Godolphin was slain.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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