An extract from

The Survey of Cornwall

A N D

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.

Clowance (deriued from Cloow, which signifieth, to heare) is the possession and dwelling of M. Saintabin, whose very name (besides the conquest roll) deduceth his first auncestours out of Fraunce.  His graundfather married Greinuile: his father, one of Whittingtons coheires: which later couple, in a long and peaceable date of yeeres, exercised a kinde, liberall, and neuer discontinued hospitality. Himselfe tooke to wife the daughter of Mallet, and with ripe knowledge and sound iudgement, dischargeth the place which he beareth in his Countrey. Hee beareth O. on a crosse G. fiue Bezaunts.

Rateable value of Crowan £1.0.10