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down in King Henry VIII. 's time — is full of 

 phrases like, 'Newlin ys a poore fischar toune,' 

 and, 'The town of Seton is now but a meane thing, 

 inhabited by fischar men.' Yet, as if in revenge, 

 Leland's sentences have never so living a tone 

 as when he is talking about those same fishing 

 towns and villages. Who, except an antiquary, 

 wants to know that 'In the south isle' of Sonning 

 church 'be 2. or 3. Vouesses buried, kinswomen to 

 Bisshop of Saresbyri,' or that 'The personage of 

 Axminster is impropriate to the chirch of York' ? 

 'Tis done with; dead and burled; like the Bishop 

 of Salisbury's kinswomen. But any day along the 

 sea-wall, just such talk as this of Leland's can be 

 heard, and ten to one it will interest whosoever 

 listens : 'There was begon a fair pere for socour 

 of shippelettes at this Bereword [Beer] : but ther 

 cam such a tempest a 3. yeres sins as never in 

 mynd of men had before was sene in that shore, 

 and tare the pere in peaces. . . . By al the north 

 se yn Cornewall be sundry crekes, wher as smawle 

 fisshers bootes be drawne up to dry land, and yn 

 fayr wether the inhabitans fysche with the same. 

 At Paddestow haven, Lanant, and S. Yes [Lelant 

 and St. Ives], the balinggars and shyppes ar 

 saved and kept fro al weders with keyes or peres.' 



