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worhings, Je,wi pieces, Jews' tin, is a stronger argument in favour of 

 the commonly received opinion, than all that can be said against it. 

 Again, Attall Sarazin, a name that in Carew's day was aj)plied 

 to the refuse of " Old men's workings," as they call deserted mine- 

 works here, though it cannot be adduced in favour of the Jews, 

 may have reference to the Phoenicians, with whom the Jews may 

 have been confounded, or, as some think, associated. Sarsyn was 

 commonly used for pagan, heathen, and also, it seems, for stranger, 

 foreigner. In this latter sense we find it in the old drama of " The 

 Passion." Our Saviour is made to say (1. 2025) — 



Pepenag vo a'n parth wyr 

 A cleufyth o\v voys yn tyr, 

 Sarsyn py Yeclhow kyn fo. 



Whosoever is of the true part 

 Shall hear my voice in the land, 

 Saracen (stranger) or Jew though he be. 



We have thus, with all due deference to the superior philo- 

 logical abilities of the learned author of the article "Are there 

 Jews in Cornwall^" followed him through his main arguments. 

 We have gone on the principle, " audi alteram partem." We did 

 not think it right that the question should be considered settled, 

 without hearing something of what might be said on the other 

 side. We have by no means exhausted the subject. And though 

 we have not been able to prove positively that Jews came into 

 Cornwall with the Phoenicians, in times long antecedent to Christ- 

 ianity, as Scawen imagined; or that they migrated hither, or 

 were sent here as slaves, at the period of the destruction of 

 Jerusalem, or under the Flavian princes, as Carew thought ; — yet 

 we have seen that the first event was possible, and the two latter 

 not improbable. We have an ancient, widely spread, and generally 

 received tradition to this effect, confirmed by local names, by the 

 probabilities of the case, and by fragments from the histories of 

 other countries. What more could we have in the absence oi 

 positive and direct history of our own land 1 But even if these 

 time-honoured traditions are to be surrendered to the rigid re- 

 quirements of modern criticism, yet, as we have proved positively 

 that Jews were intimately connected with the Tin-trade of the 

 county in, and before, the reign of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and 



