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is remembered to have been set to 
different tenants, who resided in 
different parts of the house. ‘Three 
or four years ago, in a plat of ground 
which was covered with briars and 
brambles, the soil was found to be 
black earth, four or five feet deep, 
and a regular pavement, the area of 
a court was discovered beneath. And 
about thirty years ago were also 
found what spoke to vulgar antiqua- 
rianism, the existence of three ditfe- 
rent smiths’ shops at Trelouk, but 
what only denoted probably the 
three different stations on the bar- 
ton, at which the king’s smith had 
successively exercised his business ¢ 
a quantity of cinders in the ground 
of three different places there, and 
fragments of iron among them. So 
closely does tradition unite with ety- 
mology, and discoveries incorporate 
ANNUAL REGISTER,’ 1803. 
with all; to shew the greatness of 
Trelouk as the antagonist of this 
castle, and the superior greatness of 
this castle still to its antagonist of 
Trelouk. 
Copy of an Original Manuscript, 
containing Orders made by Henry, 
prince of Wales, respecting his 
Household, 1610 ; communicated 
by Francis Douce, Esq. F. AS. 
from * The Archeologia.” Vol.14. 
RDERS for his highnes court, 
given at Richmond the 16th 
of Oétober, 1610. 
Especiall ordinances for the ad- 
vancement of my service, and or- 
dering of my household affaires, 
given the 16th of October, 1610; 
at Richmond.* 
For 
* In a rare tract, entitled, “ A Discourse of the most illustrious prince Henry, 
Jate prince of Wales,” written anno 1626, by sir Charles Cornwallis, knight, some- 
times treasurer of his highnesse house, printed in 1641, are the following traits of 
that prince’s character, which may serve to illustrate these orders. 
taken from a copy in the possession of the rev. John Brand, Sec. A. M. . 
“ Tn the government of his household, in yeares so very young, hee gave ex- 
amples to all other princes. 
“ His family was ample, as that which consisted of few lesse then five hundred, 
many of them young gentlemen, borne to great fortunes, in the prime of their 
years, when their passions were most strong, and their powers and experiences to 
temper and subject them to reason most weake, his judgement, his grave and 
princely aspect, gave temper to them all; his very eye served for a commande- 
ment, and more and better service have I noted to be done by the very lookes of 
him, then by sharpe reprehensions of some other princes: if any questions or 
quarrells were moved amongst his servants, he would give a stoppe and stay to 
them, at the very beyinning, by referring them to some such of his principal offi- 
cers as hee thought to bee most scient in matters of that nature, and best did know 
to give just compensation to the injured, and reproofe to them that should be 
found to have offered the wrong; so as in so numerous a family, there was not 
so much as any blows given, or any countenance of quarrell or debate betweene 
any. 
They, are 
“ Plenty and magnificence were the things that in his house he especially af- 
fected, but not without such a temper as might agree with the rules of frugality 
and moderation; he caused to bee set downe in writing unto him the several heads 
of alle his annual charges, the ordinary expence of his house and his stables, the 
charge of his apparrell and wardrobe, his rewards, and all such other things, 
as yearly were to be issued out of his coffers, and comparing them with his an- 
al revenue, did so judiciously fashion and proportion them by shortening what 
he 
