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THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. (Book 1)
The first Booke. (Book 1)
COrnwall, the farthest Shire * 1.1 of England Westwards, hath her name by diuers Authors diuerfly deri∣ued. Some (as our owne Chroniclers) draw it from Corineus, cousin to Brute, the first Conquerour of this Iland: who wrastling at Plymmouth (as they say) with a mightie Giant, called Gogmagog, threw him o∣uer Cliffe, brake his necke, and receiued the gift of that Countrie, in reward for his prowesse: Some, as Cerealis, (no lesse mistaken perhaps in that, then in his measures) from Cornu Galliae, a horne or corner of Fraunce, whereagainst nature hath placed it: and some, from Cornu Walliae, which (in my coniecture) carrieth greatest likelyhood of truth.
For what time the Saxons, after many bloudie in∣uasions * 1.2 as Pirates, began at last to plant their dwellings,