54 NANGITHA CROSS. 



The most recent of the many descriptions of this institution that 

 has been written, is, I presume, that* of the Eev. C. R. Sowell, 

 who cites an Elizabethan map of the neighbourhood, a copy of 

 which I have consulted. In this map I find " Bohellan Field " 

 (as now) just by Gluvias Church ; whilst only one spacious wood 

 is shown on it. This spreads over a tongue of land from the 

 precincts of the College and the Bishop's Palace in its vicinity to 

 the confines of Kegellik, and can be no other than the wood of 

 Penryn, sometimes called Bishop's Wood. There is a ten-acre 

 enclosure of Kegellik at this day that is known on the farm as 

 College Wood, which is the extension of a much larger area so 

 called that lies between it and Penryn, that may be regarded as 

 the eastern wing of what Avas formerly*^ known as the wood of 

 Penryn, but which has now for the most part been converted 

 into arable land. 



As to the water-courses I may remark that there are only 

 three streams in the parish of Budock that may be spoken of as 

 mill-streams, emptying themselves into the sea, respectively, at 

 Penryn Creek by the Avay of Glasney, at Swanpool after having 

 bounded one side of Tregenver, and at Mainporth, and that 

 Kegellik so spanns the ridge of a hill as to drain into each of 

 them ; being separated from the parish of Mabe by the first, 

 originating the second, and supplying a streamlet to the last by 

 way of Nangitha valley. The only other mill-stream near Glasney 

 flows into the Gluvias head of Penryn Creek ; so that Bohellan 

 rises a little beyond it. On the Elizabethan mapt the leats that 

 have been derived from the last two streams are traced as they 

 now exist ; whilst on the first of those leats near the gates of 

 Glasney three mills are depicted, and on the other, just as it 

 reaches the shore of the estuary, one.J It is thus evinced that 

 water-mills were of value thereabouts in those days, and the 

 import of the term water-course made evident. 



* Journal of the R.I. of Cornwall, No. iii. 



+ Journal B.I.G., No. iii. A woodcut of Glasney taken from the 

 Elizabethan map shows these four mills. 



+ Op-dt\ V. ii, p. 483. E. H. P. avows himself at a loss to explain the 

 watercourses and conjectures that shipping-tolls on the creek may have 

 been hinted at, an idea that leads him (the late Mr. Pedlar) to try to explain 

 away the plurals of Norris' translation. 



