SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. 49 



This, the first edition, which is rare, is described by 

 John Nicholson in his " BibHotheca Topographica 

 Britannica " as "an exact and excellent survey." A 

 facsimile of the title page is given opposite. 



This edition was followed by another in 1723, entitled: — 

 " The / Survey / of Cornwall / and / an Epistle 

 concerning the / Excellencies of the / English 

 Tongue. / Now first published from the 

 Manuscript. / By Richard Carew, of Antonie, 

 Esq. ; / with / The Life of the Author, / By 

 H^^^ C^^^^^ Esq. ; / London, / Printed for 

 Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pallmall ; / 

 Daniel Browne jun. at the Black Swan without 

 Temple- / Bar ; and James Woodman, at 

 Cambden's-Head in Bowstreet / Covent-Garden 

 MDCCXXIII." 

 1 Vol. f. c. 4to. 

 Collation pp. xx. 4- pp. 8 unnumbered -I- fol. 159 + pp. 

 8, 'table of contents,' + pp. 14. The dedication is signed 

 by James Woodman. 



This edition was reprinted in 1769. 

 And in 181 1 appeared that of Thomas Tonkin. 1 vol. 4to. 

 Richard Carew was born at East Antonie " In the 

 Eastern Parts of Cornwall, within some Miles of 

 Plymouth," in the year 1555 (c/. Wood Athen. Oxon., 

 Vol. I.). He was the son of Thomas Carew, and Elizabeth 

 Edgecomb, daughter of Sir Richard Edgecomb, of Mount- 

 Edgecomb in Devon. 



In 1566 at the very early age of eleven, Carew " became 

 a Gentleman Commoner of Christ Church " Oxford, but 

 " had his chamber in Broadgate's Hall." While at Oxford, 

 Carew (according to Dr. Fuller in his History of the Worthies 

 of England, p. 203) " being but fourteen years old, and 

 yet three years standing, he was call'd out to dispute 

 extempore, before the Earls of Leicester and Warwick, 

 with the matchless Sir Philip Sidney." * 



* Sir Philip Sidney was born in 1554 and was then, therefore, fifteen 

 years old. 



