The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Bo-carne,[16] in this parish, id est, cows, kine, cattle, and white
spar-stones, comparatively rocks, is the dwelling of William Flammock,
Gent. that married Reynolds, and giveth for his arms, out of a
supposed allusion to their name, Argent, a chevron between three
estoiles Sable, (that is, in a wavy or flaming posture,) for flammock,
after the Cornish-British, must be interpreted a flame and smoke;
since the Latin words _flamma_, or flame, or bright burning
fire-sparkle, and _flammans_, burning, flaming, are both derived from
the British word flam; for _exæstuo_ is the proper and native word, to
burn, or flame.
Again, this family indifferently wrote their name Flam-mank,
Flam-manc, id est, in Cornish, flaming or burning glove, sleeve, or
gauntlet; so called, perhaps, for that some of this family was a
notable soldier, and famous in the combat at sword and gauntlet, (viz.
military glove,) or a sleeve and gorget of mail, as the above name.
And flammock may relate to some soldier of this tribe that was as
renowned in his charge with the fusee or firelock, soon after the
invention of guns: for Camden, in his Remains, tells us that in Edward
the Third’s French wars gunaria, or gunarii, had its pay; which was
before the invention of guns in Germany.
But if flammeck, flammeg, flammock, be a monosyllable, and not a
compound or conjugated word, it signifies in British blear-eyed-ness,
or one that hath a sparkling or flaming eye, either by natural or
accidental infirmity, an obstruction of sight.
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