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)
Vivian’s “tomb is adorned round with crosses.” In truth, it has only
one, and that is upon the northern side. “The arms of his Bishopric of
Megara,” the arms of this Priory, and lastly, “those of his own or of
his ancestors.” But there are three fishes repeated as arms twice; and
Mr. Hals affirms himself that the jurisdiction and royalty over the
river Alan, from Camelford to Padstow Rock, was given to this Priory
by Algar Earl of Cornwall; and in further testimony of Algar’s
donation of the royalty of this river, he gave for the perpetual arms
of him and his priory, In a field Azure, three salmon-fishes in fess
barwise Argent; which arms were lately extant in all the church
windows of the churches under the priory.
Castle Kynock, as called by some to this day, but called simply the
Castle by the generality, lies more than half a mile to the
south-west, has two ditches and two ramparts; the outer are very deep
and very massy, the inner are much shallower and slighter. It takes in
the whole crest of the hill, the ground within rising from the sides
to the summit; is circular in form, because the hill is so; and has
its only entrance on the east, denoted as an original entrance by the
bridge of earth, as it were, which leads across the hollow of the
ditches into it. The whole is double, I believe, to the extent that
Mr. Hals gives it; and, from the position of the entrance on the east,
appears to be Roman in its origin.
THE EDITOR.
It is not my intention to enter on any discussion relative to the
remote and obscure antiquity of Bodmin. Tanner, in his Notitia
Monasticon, says Bodmin, or Bodmanna.
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