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)
From its Court House, on the promontory, called Penwith or Land’s End;
and this promontory, so called as Dr. Pryce thinks from Pen, and With
the head of the separation from Scilly; but rather as With (says
Nennius) signifies Divortium, and means the Isle of Wight, the
headland of the Isle opposite, just as this very promontory was called
by the ancients Anti Vesteeum, the point opposed to Vesteeum.
APPENDIX.
XIV.
EPITAPH OF RICHARD CAREW, OF ANTONY, ESQ.
The circumstances under which it has happened that no correct copy has
hitherto been printed of the epitaph of Carew, in the church of
Antony, are remarkable. The learned Camden was solicited to supply it
originally, as is shown by his Epistolæ, p. 106; but Richard Carew,
Esq. the son of the deceased, appears to have preferred a more
circumstantial composition, at the same time that he retained several
of Camden’s expressions. Hugh C――――, Esq. who wrote the Life of the
Historian prefixed to the Survey of Cornwall, quoted the epitaph, not
from the monument, but from Camden’s Epistolæ; and he was followed by
Mr. Polwhele and Mr. Lysons, under the impression that it was the
actual inscription on the tomb, nor was the deficiency supplied in the
handsome reprint of Carew’s Survey by Lord de Dunstanville. It is
believed that Mr. C. S. Gilbert was the first to copy it, but very
inaccurately, in his Historical Survey of Cornwall, ii, 388; and the
first perfect copy is the present.
“FUI, NON SUM ―――― NON FUISTIS, ESTIS, ERITIS.
RICARDO CAREW de Antony Armigero;
Thomæ Carew, ex Elizabetha Edgecombe, Filio;
Wimondi Carew, Mil: Bain: ex Martha Denni, Nepoti.
Johannis Carew, ex Thomasina, Pronepoti;
Alexandri Carew, ex Joanna Hatch, Abnepoti;
Nato An: Sal: 1555
Pacis Præsul: 1581
Cornub: Vicecom: 1586
In re milit: Regias Vices functo 1586
In Colleg: Antiquariorum elect: 1598
Religioso, Ingenioso Viro, Docto, Eloquenti,
Liberali, Magnanimo, Integerrimo,
Græce, Italice, Germanice, Gallice, Hispanice
ΑΥΤΟΔΙΔΑΚΤΩ
Injuriarum beneficiis placidis retaliatori,
In libris versato, necnon librorum auctori candidissimo,
de Principe et Patria
ob assidua et fidelia officia, semper opt: merito,
eruditorum, pauperum, oppressorum
sublevatori benignissimo,
qui, post 65 annorum bene et feliciter emensum spatium,
inter privatas solitas diurnas ad D: OP: MAX:
supplicationes in Bibliotheca
placidè in Christo obdormivit 6^o. Nov: 1620.
Richardus Carew Filius, Patri
opt. merito, officiosi obsequii ergo
cum lachrimis posuit.
Uxorem duxit Julianam Arundell de Trerice 1577
Johannem primogenitum, Anton: et Filias Gertrudam,
Annam, et Annam ad superos premisit.
Filios Richard: Johann: Hobbin:
Georg: Wimond: reliquit superstites.
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