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ANTIQUITIES. 
Description éf Ruan Lanyhorne Cas- 
tle, from ** Potwhele’s History of 
Cornwall.” 
& UAN Lanyhorne- Castle,” 
says ‘Tonkin, ** stood to 
the south of the church, at no great 
distance from it; the reétory-house 
lying between them, below that, and 
parallel with this ; in a pleasant si- 
tuation enough, on the edge of a 
creek, into which a small rivulet 
empties itself, and the river Fale, 
which is here of a considerable 
breadth when the tide is in; and sur- 
rounded formerly with woods, which 
are now mostly destroyed.”  Le- 
land gives this account of the state 
it was in at this time. “+ From Tre- 
gony to passe down by the body of 
the haven of Falamuth, to the mouth 
of Lanyhorne-creeke or kille, on 
the south-east side of the haven is a 
2 miles. This creeke goith up half 
a mile from the principale streame 
of the haven. At the hed of this 
creeke standith the castle of Lany- 
horne, sumtyme a castelle of an 
eight toures now decaying for lak 
of coverture. It longgid as princi- 
pal house to the Archedecons. This 
Jand descendid by heires general to 
‘the Corbetes, of Shropshir, and to 
Vaulx, of Northamptonshir. Vaulx 
part syns bought by Tregyon, of 
Cornewaule.” By this one may 
guess what a stately castle this for- 
merly was. For in my time was 
only one tower of the castle stand- 
ing ; which was so large, that if the 
other seven were equal to it, the 
whole building must be of a prodigi- 
ous magnitude. But I fancy this was 
the body of the whole, for there is 
not room enough about it for so 
great a pile: so that 1 believe the 
eight towers, mentioned by Leland, 
were only turrets and appendices to 
this principal part. {f wish I had 
taken a draft of it in season, as I 
often intended; for this too was 
pulled down in or about the year 
1718, by Mr. Grant ; who, having 
obtained leave from the lord to do 
it, erected several houses with the 
materials, and turned it to a little 
town; to which ships of about 
eighty or a hundred tons come 
up, and supply the neighbourhood 
with coals, timber, &c. as the 
barges do with sand. But, since 
the writing of this, I am informed 
that six of the eight towers were 
standing within these thirty years ; 
of which that which 1 have men- 
tioned was the biggest and loftiest, 
as being at Jeast 50 feet in height.’ 
Thus Tonkin. On which Whitaker 
observes, ‘* The contradi¢toriness 
of Mr. Tonkin’s account of the 
castle is but too apparent; not in 
the posterior information correéting 
the 
