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)
_Mowsehole_ ys a praty fyschar town yn the west part of Montes-bay,
lying hard by the shoore, and hath no savegarde for shyppes, but a
forced pere. Also yn the bay be est the same towne ys a good roode for
shyppes, cawled Gnaves Lake.
_Pensants_, abowt a myle fro Mowsehole, stonding fast in the shore of
Mont-bay, ys the westest market towne of al Cornwayle, and no socur
for botes or shyppes, but a forsed pere or key. Ther is but a chapel
yn the sayd towne as ys yn Newlyn. For theyr paroche chyrches be more
then a myle off.
_Marhasdeythyou_, [_Marketjew_,] alias _forum Jovis_, ys a fischar
towne, with a market, and standeth fast apon the shore of the bay,
directly agaynst the foote of S. Michael’s Mont northward.
In Marhasdeythyow ys but a poore chapel yn the mydde of the poore
town, and a lytle chapel yn the sand nere by the towne toward the
Mont. Be the west end of the towne ys a lake, or a _rivulus_, the
hedde wherof risith withyn a myle of Lanant northwordde fro
Marhesdeythyou. Betwyxt the hedd of this _rivulus_ and the nerest part
of the ryver of Heyle, that cummeth yn to the se at Lanant is not a
myle. And the grownd of bred [breadth] betwene the ful se marke at
_forum Jovis_, and the ful se marke of Lanant ryver, is not ii. myles.
The cumpace of the roote of the mont of _S. Michael_ is not dim. myle
abowt. The sowth-sowth-est part of the mont is pasturable and breedith
conys. The resydue hy and rokky. In the north-north-est ys a garden
with certen howses with shoppes for fischar men. The way to the
chyrche enteryth at the north syd from half heb to half fludde to the
foote of the mont, and so ascendeth by steppes and greces westward,
and thens returneth estward to the utter ward of the chyrch. Withyn
the sayd ward is a court strongly walled, wheryn on the sowth syde is
the chapel of S. Michael, and yn the east syde a chapel of our Lady.
The capytaynes and prestes lodginges be yn the sowth syde, and the
west of S. Mich. chapel. The Mont is enclosid with the se fro dim.
flud to dim. ebbe; otherwyse men may cum to the Mont afoote. Ther be
found from the inward part of the ―――― yvers ―――― re stones ―――― wes
and ―――― ois v miles ―――― the se. In the bay betwyxt the Mont and
Pensants be fownd neere the lowe-water marke rootes of trees yn dyvers
places, as a token of the grownde wasted. The cumpace of the bay ys
from Lyzart poynt to Newlyn abowt a xx. myles.
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