EAEIiT ACCEPTATION OF THE NAME OF FALMOUTH. 175 



ae Mamporth, — Boazio must not be understood to mean Ealmouth 

 Bay in its present sense, as limited by Pendennis and the 

 Manacles, but, in an ancient sense of " Baie," as tbat arm of the 

 sea, which, extends into the land, viz. the Fal with its affluents. 



"Where the town of Falmouth now stands, Arwenack, Three 

 Farthings' House, and a third house appear alone in Boazio's map. 

 It is elsewhere recorded that Sir Walter Raleigh was entertained 

 by John Killigrew, and his crew at the other sole existing house. 

 In 1613 a village called Smithike was erected by John Ealligrew 

 on one or both sides of what is now the Market Strand but 

 then was called Lyme Kill baie ; but the name of Falmouth was 

 first given in the Charter of Incorporation in 1661 to the 

 present town. 



A clear conception is necessary, that a reader of ancient 

 documents may not be misled by conflicting statements. The 

 contradictory statements of William of Worcester in his Itinerary 

 (1478) have been separately noticed, in my memoir on Emenda- 

 tions of William of Worcester. — (p. 171.) 



Thus, in a map, executed about 1500 by Franceso Mauro, 

 and preserved at Venice, Falamua, Plemua, Paesto (Padstow), and 

 Artemua (Dartmouth) are described as the principal towns in the 

 West of England — (Lysons' Magna Brittania, p. 99.) Again, in 

 Ortellius' Theatre of the World (Amsterdam, 1595) the town of 

 Falmout is mentioned. — (Worth). 



These m.istakes are rightly attributed to foreign geographers, 

 reasoning from false analogies, unless we are to suppose that 

 they mistook the name of the harbour for the names of the towns 

 on its banks, Penryn or Truro, over which harbour one or other 

 of them had jurisdiction. 



Thus a third sense, which flows from the second, was given 

 in early times to the word Falmouth, which perplexes the readers 

 of ancient documents. 



Very confusing at first sight is the petition of the Mayor 

 and Burgesses of Falmouth in 1627, who prayed to be excused 

 from furnishing ships for the king's service, as they were 

 extremely poor. — Domestic State Papers, 1627. 



