14 pbbsident's address. 



fair or market be made to Sir Peter Killigrew without their 

 knowledge, as he has threatened decay by his causing, by his 

 interest, the Custom House and a weekly market to be removed 

 to Penny -come-quick, alias Smitheck. The second comes from a 

 MS. at Enys, of the coynage dues, under date of 1663, Feb. 14. 

 " Ambros Jeninens, of Pennicomquick." 



PILCHARD FISHING IN 1500. 



Some years since, I found some interesting documents 

 relating to the Pilchard industry in the Record Office in London, 

 and also in an old MS. letter book preserved at Enys Under 

 July 17th, 1591, at the Eecord OflB.ce was an order made in the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth "that no more Fumadoes* were to be 

 made, so that the Queen's enimays might not be supplied with 

 provisions, and be able to remain on the coast." This looks like 

 a report that the loyal Cornish supplied the enemy with food, 

 or that the Queen's advisers feared the enemy would take it by 

 force. 



Another order was "that no fish should be removed from 

 the place of landing it till after 2 or 3 tydes, so that the inhabi- 

 tants should not be deprived of their 1st chance of fresh fish." 



Same date, 1591, "Pilchards yield £16 per ton in the straits 

 to the mercha.nts." 



" In Charles II reign, pilchards were brought by land from 

 St. Ives, to be shipped at Penzance, at twice the cost of conveying 

 them by sea, in consequence of the amount of French and Turkish 

 vessels that rendered it dangerous to carry them by sea. 



THE EARLY HISTORY OP THE STEAM ENGINE 



must always be of special interest to Cornwall, as she claims some 

 of the earliest inventors, and I have therefore no hesitation in 

 reading some extracts from a correspondence between Davies 

 Griddy, afterwards Davies Grilbert, and Jonathan Hornblower, 

 extending over a period of 14 years, from March, 1790 to 1814. 

 The letters are in my possession, having been given to my father, 

 J. S. Enys, by Mr. D. Grilbert, and the correspondence is fortu- 

 nately complete, as Mr. Davies Q-ilbert had his letters returned 



* The Cornish word fair maids used for prepared pilchards is no doubt 

 derived from this word, meaning smoked pilchards. 



