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An Unknown Watering-Place.
seen over a granite gatewaj' under the great toAver , with a record of her heroism . Wanvick , the King Maker , befriended the FoAvey people and helped them to rebuild their town , and , as Lord High Admiral , gave them letters of marque , Avhich enabled them to use their ships as privateers and harass the French , and greatly enrich themselves Avith the prizes they took . In gratitude they placed his badge , the ragged staff , on their church and houses , AA'here it may be seen carved in tho enrichments on the tower of St . Fimbarrus and on the AA'alls of Place to this day .
It is to be feared that in those days they were rather given to piracy , at least Hals tho historian says so , and Edward IV ., in 1478 , sent a sergeant-at-arms to Fowey to apprehend the principal men concerned , but they cut off' his ears and sent him back to the king . "At which affront , " Hals says , " the king was so distasted that soon after he sent down commissioners to Lostwithiel under pretence of raising seamen to go to Avar with the French , and that such amongst them as appeared most fit and able should have command of some of the King ' s best ships . At this neAvs a great part of the freemen and seamen of Foy Avere drawn to Lostwithiel , lvhore they no sooner camo but they
were immediately apprehended ancl taken into custody for the crimes aforesaid , their ill-gotten goods and chattels seized by the sheriff ancl King ' s officers , and one Harrington , a most notorious pirate , executed ; and the chain of their harbour removed to Dartmouth . " In 1666 , when Ave were at Avar with Holland , a Dutch man-of-war of seventy guns , donbly manned ( sent from their main fleet of eighty sail , that lay at anchor and cruised before the haven in pursuit of our Virginia fleet of eighty sail , AAhich
had escaped them , and had sailed right- up the harbour into the river , and there grounded ) resoh'ed to force its way past the forts and burn the fleet . But she reckoned without her host , for after two hours' hard fighting , the forts being manned by the Fowey men and seamen from tho Virginia fleet , she was beaten off and obliged to turn back and bear off to sea . The cargo of the vrfiole fleet , composed of tobacco , Avas landed at FoAvey , and being sold at a very cheap rate in consequence of the cost of transport to
London in those days , the people purchased it in large quantities , and on the conclusion of the peace it Avas sold again in France , Spain , ancl Holland , very dear , ancl so enriched the good people of Fowey , AVIIO , a friend suggests , were always most prosperous in lawless times—when Ave were at Avar .
FoAvey , ecclesiastically , was under the Priory of iywardreath , a little town throe miles off , which reminds us that Avhen the Restormel Preceptory of Knights Templar was consecrated and opened there , —some feAV year since , —the Templar body went in all their regalia to church there , —the Earl of St . German ' s , then Lord Eliot , Provincial Grand Commander of Cornwall , and Sir Patrick Colqnhonn , Chancellor of the Order , ancl Col . Peard ( Garibaldi ' s Englishman ) , AA'hose handsome residence , Trenythen , is hard by , being amongst their number ; and it is said that this was the first public procession
of Templars in England since the Reformation . On a future occasion we may return to the subject and toll more tales of the old Cornish toAvns . In concluding this article , Ave cannot help remarking IIOAV many lovely spots there are like FoAvey and its neighbourhood , full of interest in every Avay to the artist , the antiquarian , the botanist , and geologist , and yet tourists pass them by and never think of looking at home for the beauties aud historical associations they misht find as well
here as abroad . The Avriter took tAvo ladies up the FoAvey river this summer . They Avere enchanted . One remarked : " Dear me , this is quite as beautiful as the Rhine ; " and the other said : " They talk of the Dart , Avhy , this is quite as fine . " "I know it , " was the answer , " but then no one seems to have heard of the river FoAvey . " The harbour is enclosed by great hills , aud just across tho river opposite the north end of the toAA r n is Bodinnick , above Avhich is Hall , the ancient residence of the
Mobnns . Tho Lord Molina of that day was one of the cavaliers , and Charles Jj visiting him here , took a great delight in promenading a green lane near the top of tho hill which looks down on Fowey harbour and across the bay to the Dodman a-nd Lizard . It is still known as Hall Walk , and is memorable from the fact that the Kinowas shot at here , but without effect , though a peasant near b y was struck Avith the ball . King Charles , it is said , himself remarked on the beauty of the scenery about this
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An Unknown Watering-Place.
seen over a granite gatewaj' under the great toAver , with a record of her heroism . Wanvick , the King Maker , befriended the FoAvey people and helped them to rebuild their town , and , as Lord High Admiral , gave them letters of marque , Avhich enabled them to use their ships as privateers and harass the French , and greatly enrich themselves Avith the prizes they took . In gratitude they placed his badge , the ragged staff , on their church and houses , AA'here it may be seen carved in tho enrichments on the tower of St . Fimbarrus and on the AA'alls of Place to this day .
It is to be feared that in those days they were rather given to piracy , at least Hals tho historian says so , and Edward IV ., in 1478 , sent a sergeant-at-arms to Fowey to apprehend the principal men concerned , but they cut off' his ears and sent him back to the king . "At which affront , " Hals says , " the king was so distasted that soon after he sent down commissioners to Lostwithiel under pretence of raising seamen to go to Avar with the French , and that such amongst them as appeared most fit and able should have command of some of the King ' s best ships . At this neAvs a great part of the freemen and seamen of Foy Avere drawn to Lostwithiel , lvhore they no sooner camo but they
were immediately apprehended ancl taken into custody for the crimes aforesaid , their ill-gotten goods and chattels seized by the sheriff ancl King ' s officers , and one Harrington , a most notorious pirate , executed ; and the chain of their harbour removed to Dartmouth . " In 1666 , when Ave were at Avar with Holland , a Dutch man-of-war of seventy guns , donbly manned ( sent from their main fleet of eighty sail , that lay at anchor and cruised before the haven in pursuit of our Virginia fleet of eighty sail , AAhich
had escaped them , and had sailed right- up the harbour into the river , and there grounded ) resoh'ed to force its way past the forts and burn the fleet . But she reckoned without her host , for after two hours' hard fighting , the forts being manned by the Fowey men and seamen from tho Virginia fleet , she was beaten off and obliged to turn back and bear off to sea . The cargo of the vrfiole fleet , composed of tobacco , Avas landed at FoAvey , and being sold at a very cheap rate in consequence of the cost of transport to
London in those days , the people purchased it in large quantities , and on the conclusion of the peace it Avas sold again in France , Spain , ancl Holland , very dear , ancl so enriched the good people of Fowey , AVIIO , a friend suggests , were always most prosperous in lawless times—when Ave were at Avar .
FoAvey , ecclesiastically , was under the Priory of iywardreath , a little town throe miles off , which reminds us that Avhen the Restormel Preceptory of Knights Templar was consecrated and opened there , —some feAV year since , —the Templar body went in all their regalia to church there , —the Earl of St . German ' s , then Lord Eliot , Provincial Grand Commander of Cornwall , and Sir Patrick Colqnhonn , Chancellor of the Order , ancl Col . Peard ( Garibaldi ' s Englishman ) , AA'hose handsome residence , Trenythen , is hard by , being amongst their number ; and it is said that this was the first public procession
of Templars in England since the Reformation . On a future occasion we may return to the subject and toll more tales of the old Cornish toAvns . In concluding this article , Ave cannot help remarking IIOAV many lovely spots there are like FoAvey and its neighbourhood , full of interest in every Avay to the artist , the antiquarian , the botanist , and geologist , and yet tourists pass them by and never think of looking at home for the beauties aud historical associations they misht find as well
here as abroad . The Avriter took tAvo ladies up the FoAvey river this summer . They Avere enchanted . One remarked : " Dear me , this is quite as beautiful as the Rhine ; " and the other said : " They talk of the Dart , Avhy , this is quite as fine . " "I know it , " was the answer , " but then no one seems to have heard of the river FoAvey . " The harbour is enclosed by great hills , aud just across tho river opposite the north end of the toAA r n is Bodinnick , above Avhich is Hall , the ancient residence of the
Mobnns . Tho Lord Molina of that day was one of the cavaliers , and Charles Jj visiting him here , took a great delight in promenading a green lane near the top of tho hill which looks down on Fowey harbour and across the bay to the Dodman a-nd Lizard . It is still known as Hall Walk , and is memorable from the fact that the Kinowas shot at here , but without effect , though a peasant near b y was struck Avith the ball . King Charles , it is said , himself remarked on the beauty of the scenery about this