Yet without devotion he would not have visited the Mount, and without curiosity he would have made no observations by the way. The shrine of St. Michael, which had been the resort of superstitious people in remote times, had lately recovered its ancient reputation, after an interval of some accidental obscurity; and pilgrims were again attracted by the privileges conferred on it in the eleventh century, and were coming even from distant places in considerable numbers. William of Worcester was one of these; and as his penitence had brought him so far, it might be thought that his admiration would have delayed his return. But the hospitalities of a place so ‘kind to strangers,’ the natural beauties of the Mount, and the venerable antiquity and romantic traditions of the castle and monastery, were not enough to detain him for a day; and with scarcely any regard to such things, he stayed but a few hours. In that short space he could not occupy himself with many inquiries; and we have received from him only a few bare facts, which he appears to have recorded rather as the justification of his pilgrimage, than with any precise knowledge of their value. His subsequent pursuits, and the time of his death, are not known, nor have we any account of the number and the fortunes of his children. It is certain, however, that he was married; and he is reported to have taken a wife in opposition to the wishes of his patron. For Sir John Fastolf had designed for him some ecclesiastical preferment, and had consequently advised him to obtain orders in the church. _Tanneri Biblioth._――_Paston Letters._――_Lelandus de Script. Brit._――_Henry’s Hist. of Engl._ _Incipiunt notabilia per W. Worcestre scripta in viagio de Bristolia ad Montem Sancti Michaelis in anno Christi 1478._ * * * * * Castellum Tregtheney-Pomerey de Devonia edificatum stat juxta Mousehold, per 7 miliaria ultra Montem Sancti Michaelis. Castellum Trethyn dirutum in fine occidentalissima Cornubiæ. Turris castelli Karnbree, Sir John Bassett, chevalier, stat. C. Helston dirutum: comes Cornubiæ Edmundus. C. Trurew dirutum: comes Cornubiæ. C. Treclysten dirutum. C. Morisk, ubi comes Cornubiæ Edmundus manebat. C. Fust, quondam Ricardi comitis Anarwit in Carnanton, dirutum. C. Dynas super altum montem dirutum, et fons in medio castri ubi Tador dux Cornubiæ maritus … matris Arcturi fuit occisus, juxta villam Sancti Columpnæ. C. Carloogus, dirutum, in villa prope Sanctum Columpnæ. C. Keynok dirutum cum tribus wardis. C. Laner dirutum in villa Laner. C. Godollon dirutum in villa Lodollon. C. Tregheny stat, pertinet Pomereys, in Trefeny burgagio super le South. C. Lanyhorn stat in villa Lanyhorn quondam Archedes. C. Dirford dirutum prope Golonant villa. C. Frampton aliter Castrum Trevyan dirutum prope Seynt Terbyn. Castrum Tyntagelle fortissimum dirutum prope Camelford, ubi Arthurus fuit conceptus.