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thus. ‘Trelouk is a house that has a 
large barton belonging to it, and is 
the only house in the whole parish, 
besides what I shall show hereafter 
to have belonged to the seignor of 
the castle, that has any barton at 
all. Its appellation, too, concurs 
with its barton, to prove it a very 
considerable mansion. Tre Long, 
which, in pronunciation, readily 
becomes Tre Louk, and is the indu- 
bitable analysis of the name, obvi- 
ously means the long house. The 
word long, indeed, is lost in the 
Cornish, but is preserved in the 
Welsh and Irish, llong and long, a 
ship: a name and a quality nearly 
similar, I suppose, to our long-boat. 
This implies something considerable 
jn the house. But the Jrish language 
explains the whole to us at once. 
This exhibits the discriminative term 
in an idiomatic sense. Long-phort 
in Irish, is literally a long fort, or 
long house, from port, afort or house ; 
but in construction means a palace, 
or royal seat. Thus— Drairg se 
a long-phoirt,” signifies ‘¢ he plun- 
déred the king’s seats.” A long 
house, therefore, was the appropri- 
ate title among the Britons for a 
king’s mansion. ‘They marked the 
royalty of the house by the length 
ofit. And Treiouk appears from all, 
to have been one of the long houses 
of Cornwall, one of the mansions 
upon the royal demesnes here. In 
this view of Trelouk, the owner of 
it might maintain a battle with the 
eastellan of Lanyhorne, as well as 
any other baron in the neighbour- 
hood. Ile was not subjeét to the 
castellan. He held not Trelouk 
from him: He held it only from the 
king himself. He had also the ho- 
nour to live ina royal mansion, to 
receive the king into his house at 
times, to have him for a sojourner ip 
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it, to partake in his feasts; and to 
sHiate in his sports. Such a man 
might well, therefore, bristle up his 
back with ‘pride, and even (in the 
licentious freedoms of feudal lords) 
meet the castellan boldly in the field, 
with his servants in arms. How nu- 
merous these servants must have 
been, Jet tradition further tell us, in 
its usual confusedness of remem- 
brance. Itsays that there was a city 
at Trelouk formerly, and that a king 
resided in it. It thus confirms my 
deduétions from the name very de- 
cisively : and this is the main, sub- 
stantial part of the popular narrative. 
But when it adds that this city reach- 
ed from Trelouk to Reskivers, near 
Tregony, and that it was denomi- 
nated the city of Reskivay, it con- 
founds Tregoney with Trelouk, that 
being a¢tually and probably report- 
ed to have once shot out to Reski- 
vers, and this additional town being 
said to have been denominated the 
city of Reskivers or Reskivay. It 
says, however, that Trelouk was a 
city. In this it may have been equally 
deceived by the same assimilation of 
circumstances... Yet that is not like- 
ly. The appellation of a city for 
Trelouk was the very circumstance 
which occasioned the assimilation— 
the very link that tied the tradition of 
Tregony to Trelouk. Anditsubjoins 
what corroborates the substance of its 
verdict in the point, that a king re- 
sided in this city. Ail shows it to 
haye been a capital house, the na- 
tural, though unequal rival of the 
castle. The house is remembered 
about forty years ago, to have had 
a narrow approach to it, with a wall 
on each side, and a reom (for a por- 
ter’s lodge) above, in the style of a 
castellated mansion ; to have then had 
a gate and a wicket, with a small court 
before the whole. The barton also 
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