150 EARLY TOPOGRAPHY OF FALMOTJTH. 



Other instances of like clipped names occur in Boazio's map : 

 Porquin Bale for Porthgwidden, Porrqueu for Porthkuel, and 

 Porr Yust River for the Porth. in St. Just Creek. 



II. On the topography of the town of Palmouth. 



The houses and streets were built beside the roads or paths, 

 so that it is important to examine the thoroughfares in Burleigh's 

 map, 1567, (Plate A) in which they are clearly depicted. Two 

 existing roads led from Arwenack to Penryn, in the reign of 

 Elizabeth ; (1) over Porhan (now Smithick) Hill to the Market 

 Strand, thence to the High and Beacon Streets ; (^) by the Wood- 

 lane to the Cross Lanes, where a cross was erected, and thence by 

 Trescobeas and the Bishop's Palace (now Poat's Court) and 

 Grlasney College ; (3) a private road or foot-p?th above the cliffs 

 over fields connected Arwenack House with the Strand near the 

 foot of Porhan Hill. 



The houses appear to have been erected in the following 

 order. Between 1597 and 1613, the village of Smithick sprung 

 up on either side of, but not on, the Market Strand. At the 

 former date only two detached houses appear, besides Arwenack, 

 neither of them at, or near, the Strand, although we may con- 

 ceive, with Thomas (p. 57), that fishermen's cottages co-existed 

 on the Hills, called Fisherman's and Porhan. In 1613 we learn 

 its exact situation from the petition presented to James I, from 

 the towns of Truro, Penryn, and Helston, that the erecting "of 

 a town of Smithike," where it was proposed by Sir John 

 Killigrew because of the creek, or cove, now in the centre thereof, 

 would tend to the ruin and impoverishing of the ancient ' 'coinage 

 towns and market towns aforesaid." Fortunately there is pre- 

 served at the Manor Ofiice a unique sketch-plan of Smithick 

 (1613 — 1650), which appears to have been a boundary- map, possi- 

 bly for use in a court of law ; it is herewith published (Plate C). 

 The commencement of the High Street is shewn, but its lowest 

 house scarcely reached below the entrance to Webber Street. 

 There are two or three houses on the North side of Webber 

 Street, a few fish cellars on the south side, but no house stands 

 on the Strand, which is terminated westward by " the moore 

 hedge towardes the sea." There is no thoroughfare through the 

 Moor or to Trevethan except by Webber Hill, " the waie lead- 

 ing to Trevethan." 



