The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 4 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
I believe in the Holy Me a greez yn Spiriz
Ghost, the Holy Catholic Sanz, Sanz Cathalick Eglis,
Church, the forgiveness of yn Communion yn Sanz, yn
sins, the resurrection of the geiyanson pegh, yn derivyans
body, and the life everlasting. yn corff, han bowians
ragnuera andellazobo.
[25] Dr. Hammond’s Exposition to the Apocalypse.
[26] Tit. Dij et Homines, 1. 3. p. 457, cap. 163.
[27] Gr. Naz. in Trag.
[28] Here passing down the river, I would willingly have
given by the way an account of the antient Cornish name of
that eminent place now called Mount Edgcombe, but by reason
that the present, and some other generations, have been so
much inclined to the name it now bears, and the other
generations before them had given it the name of West
Stonehouse, as in relation to that on the eastern side of
the river East Stonehouse, where the mansion of those
gentlemen formerly was, (according to which I have seen an
entry of it, Cum Perco et Passagio, in an antient Ouster le
main) I could not attain to it.
[29] Off from Seaton, a valley between Ramehead and Loo,
there is to be seen in a clear day in the bottom of the sea,
a league from the shore, a whole wood of timber on its side,
uncorrupted.
[30] Cæsar de Bello Gallico, lib. VI. ch. 14. Neque fas esse
existimant, ea literis mandare cum in reliquis Græcis
utantur literis. Id mihi duabus de causis instituisse
videntur; quod neque in vulgum disciplinam efferi velint;
neque eos, qui discant literis, confisos minus memorise
studere.――Ed.
[31] The two first lines are from Lib. VII. Ep. 88. The last
line from Lib. XI. Ep. 3.――Ed.
[32] Signification of which word in Cornish is “speeches
great.”
[33] And so were the other devotions exercised, sub Dio, as
you may see by the discourse of Ed. Jones.
[34] Gualterius, mentioned by Archbishop Laud in a speech in
the Star Chamber.
[35] These bones must evidently have been found in a Cavern,
the nature of which has been most ably ascertained and
described by Doctor Buckland; and the Rev. Richard Hennah
has examined another cavern of precisely the same nature,
comprising bones of various large Mammalia, in the limestone
formation, not far from Plymouth.――Ed.
[36] At St. German’s, the place of the author’s nativity,
endowed by King Etheldred with lands, liberties, and
privileges, but what or where non patet.
[37] Archbishop Usher, in Primordiis. Bishop of St. Asaph.
Dr. Stillingfleet, Orig. Britt.
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