166 BOAZIO'S MAP OF THE FAL. 



Boazio does not profess to describe the interior above a mile 

 from the shore line, but within that scope he lays down plans of 

 Trewro, Tregni, and Pewrin, the several churches, castles, and 

 mansions, and woods, and sometimes the contour of the country. 

 The old streets in the towns can be identified, and the sites of 

 the manor houses determined, where they no longer exist : some 

 mansions or their representatives, such as Arwinick, Cariklewe, 

 Trefusies, Tregothnan, still occupy their original sites, just as the 

 manors connected with those houses are retained by the descend- 

 ants of their ancient proprietors. 



The map, from which the engraving is taken, is not the 

 original work, but is itself a copy preserved in the War Office at 

 the Horse G-uards. Errors from ignorance of the locaKty and 

 from carelessness have crept in during the several stages of 

 transcription : the old English letters have sometimes been mis- 

 read ; and the names furnished by fishermen and others to 

 Boazio were probably spelled at random and often inconsistently. 

 Nevertheless the nomenclature of this map deserves careful 

 study, and the co-operation of di:fferent persons who are con- 

 versant with their respective localities ; my own comments are 

 mainly confined to the neighbourhood of Falmouth. One sees 

 clearly that the English language was in universal use in Corn- 

 wall under Elizabeth, as it is in Wales under Victoria : " Forth" 

 and " Pill" are replaced by " cove" and " bale," "place" (plas) 

 by house, and in some cases the Cornish and English names occur 

 conjointly. It is stated (Thomas' Falmouth, p. 34) that 50 years 

 after this date, in 1640, the Cornish language was used in 

 divine service at Feock Church on this river Fal. Of the value 

 of this map in fixing the older names of the town of Falmouth 

 I have treated in a separate memoir : I will now comment on 

 other names of places, with much diffidence. 



FALMOUTH BAY. 



Carpenhans Point, Boazio ; Carne Pennans, Burghley ;=Pen- 

 nans Point (hodie), so-called after the farm-house — (head 

 of the valley), on which farm it stands.* 



* If we follow Boazio, and interpret caer=camp, we may conjecture a Eoman 

 camp to have been made here, since in 1865 a hoard of nearly 1000 Eoman 

 bronze coins was found in ploughing the field which adjoins this point westward, 

 —(Worth's History of Falmouth, p. 59.) 



