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THE SVRVEY OF CORNWALL. (Book 2)
The second Booke. (Book 2)
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, of the former or later ages, shall offer occasion.
The highest which my search can reach vnto, I bor∣row * 1.1 out of Strabo, who writeth, that the Westerne Bre∣tons gaue ayde vnto the Armorici of Fraunce, against Caesar, which hee pretended for one of the causes, why he inuaded this Iland.
Next I find, that about sixtie yeeres from the landing of Hengist, one Nazaleod, a mightie King amongst the * 1.2 Bretons, ioyned battell with Certicus, Soueraigne of the West-Saxons, and after long fight, with his owne death accompanied the ouerthrow of his armie. Yet, the Bre∣tons, thus abandoned by fortune, would not so forsake * 1.3 themselues, but with renued courage, and forces, coped once againe with Certicus, and his sonne Kenrick, at