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Parallel to the moor hedge, but a long way back, a boundary 

 hedge appears to line the moor to the S.W. *' This hedge is de 

 partishen between Killigrew Tresare wh. hath stond 50 years 

 w'^out questien or (d)isput." Across the moor two watercourses 

 are drawn, the old and new, so termed herein. 



South of the Strand two or three inns, with sign boards and 

 water stairs, abut on the beach, on the site of the King's Arms 

 Hotel. These would seem to be two of the four victualling 

 houses for the relief of seafaring men, " and the better accommo- 

 dation of shipping, " {Killigrew MS.) allowed by King James I. 

 to be erected by Sir John Killigrew, on his lands at Smithick, 

 near Falmouth, on his engaging for their good behaviour. The 

 King's license, apparently, was not necessary for other buildings. 

 To the West of the "high waie " leading from the Strand to 

 Porhan Hill, there occurs a group of four or five houses. The 

 water oflf the Strand is entitled " Smithick sea, or harbor;" and 

 parallel to it is " the high waie." 



This map was probably drawn soon after 1613,* — if we may 

 be guided by the small extent of the village of Smithick, for, 

 when the Parliamentary forces were quartered in it in 1 646, it was 

 much developed. Hals ( Collections, 1635 — 1636, p. 128), has stated 

 the following facts for our guidance : " And verily I have been, 

 told by some aged persons lately living, that they remembered 

 not above^ive houses standing in the place." The next quotation 

 from Hals is taken from MS. notes on the Voluhiad, a satirical 

 poem on Falmouth: "The original village, out of which Fal- 

 mouth rose, was called Smithick or Smeddick, and so insignificant 

 as to contain only eight houses." 



Two traditions are confuted by these ancient maps. The 

 earliest entrance to the town was conceived to have passed 

 through Trevethan Lane, and to have skirted the head of the 

 Moor (Britton and Brayley, Beauties of England and Wales, p. 450) ; 

 but a plan of the Barton of Trevethan. made in 1686, simply gives 

 a path to the Swanpool as an exit. Another tradition is given by 

 ThoxaSiS, {History of Falmouth, p. 57). "Probably the creek of 



* WTiitaker, MS., R.I.O., p. 581, confirms this estimate of its date by a 

 quotation from it : '' The Sellar in question was recovered [by] S' Jo, Killiegriu 

 about nine or ten years past." Sir John died in 1633, 



