Richard Carew

CAREW, RICHARD (1555-1620), English poet and antiquary, was born on the 17th of July 1555, at Antony House, East Antony, Cornwall. At the age of eleven, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and when only fourteen was chosen to carry on an extempore debate with Sir Philip Sidney, in presence of the earls of Leicester and […]

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The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. AND An EPISTLE concerning the EXCELLENCIES of the ENGLISH TONGUE. By RICHARD CAREW, of Antonie, Esq; WITH The LIFE of the AUTHOR, By H**** C***** Esq. A NEW EDITION. ‘LONDON, Printed for E. LAW, in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J.HEWETT, at Penzance. MDCCLXIX. LIST of the […]

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The Life of Richard Carew The Life of RICHARD CAREW of Antonie Esq; By HUGH C******* Esq; RICHARD CAREW, the Celebrated Author of the Survey of Cornwall, was born of an antient Family at East-Antonie (a), the Seat of his Ancestors, in the Year 1555, if we may credit Mr. Wood (b). He was the […]

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The Survey of Cornwall The First Book by Richard Carew THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. The first Booke. Cornwall, the farthest Shire of England Westwards, hath her name by diuers Authors diuersly deriued. Some (as our owne Chroniclers) draw it from Corineus, cousin to Brute, the first Conqueror of this Iland: who wrastling at Plymmouth (as […]

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The Survey of Cornwall The First Book Part 2 by Richard Carew THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. The first Booke Part 2. [40] Hundred de Penwith. Will, de Campo Arnulphi ten. 7 feod. & di. in Luduon trewedryn, Maien & Kelle- meke. Will. Basset ten. 1. feod in Tihidi & Trenalga. Mich. de Bray ten. 2. […]

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The Survey of Cornwall The Second Book by Richard Carew THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. The second Booke. IN this second booke I will first report what I haue learned of Cornwall, and Cornishmen in general, and from thence descend to the particular places and persons, as their note-worthie site, or any memorable action, or accident, […]

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The Survey of Cornwall The Second Book Part 2 by Richard Carew THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. The second Booke Part 2. Powder Hundred. SOme impute the force of Powder vnto this, that the same is conuerted, at an instant, from his earthy substance, to a fiery, and from the fire, into ayre; euery of which […]

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