OELIA FIENNES IN CORNWALL. 201 



Her description of the Old Boscawen House is as follows : 

 "I went 3 mile more to Mr. Boscawen's — Trygothy — a 

 Relation of mine. His house stands on a high hill in the middle 

 of a parke, with severall Rows of trees, with woods beyond it. 



Y* house is built all of white stone like the Rough coarse 

 marble, and covered w*"" slate. They use much Lime in their 

 cement w"^ makes both walls and cover look very white. 



There is a Court, walled round, w*'' open Iron gates and 

 barrs. The Entrance is up a few stone steps into a Large high 

 hall, and so to a passage that leads foreright up a good Stair Case. 

 On y* Eight side is a large Common parlour for constant Eating 

 in, from whence goes a Little room for smoaking, y* has a back 

 way into the kitchen, and on Left hand is a Grreat Parlour and 

 Drawmg-roome, which is hung with pictures of the family, that 

 goes into y° garden, w"'^ has Gravell walks around and across, but 

 y^ squares are full of goosebury and shrub-trees and Looks more 

 like a Kitchen garden, as Lady Mary Boscawen told me, out of 

 w"'' is another Garden and Orchard which is something like a 

 Grove, Green walks w*** rows of fruit trees. 



Its capable of being a fine place w*^ some Charge, the roomes 

 above are new modell'd, 3 roomes wanscotted, and hung as y* 

 new way is, and y" beds made up well, one red damaske, another 

 Green, another wrought, some of y® Ladyes own work and well 

 made up, w'^'^ is her own Roome w**" a dressing roome by it. 

 There is a dressing roome and a roome for a servant just by y* 

 best chamber. There are two other good roomes unalter'd w*^ 

 old hangings to y^ bottom on wrought work of y* first Ladyes, 

 Lady Margets work, y^ was my Cosin German, within that 

 roome was a servants roome and back stairs ; there was just such 

 another apartment on y® other side. 



Between all, from the stairs a broad passage Leads to a 

 Balcony over the Entrance w"^ Look'd very pleasantly over the 

 parke but in the Cupulo on y® Leads I could see a vast way, 

 at Least 20 mile round ; for this house stands very high to y* 

 Land side Eastward, and the South was the Great Ocean w"'' 

 runns into Falmouth thats y^ best harbour for shipps in that 

 road." 



