JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 
No. XIV. APRIL. 1873. 
I.—State of the Ports in Cornwoll, 5 Aug., 1593—1595.—FRoM 
Mr. Henry LEE Rowett, PoLperro. 
Presented at the Spring Meeting, May 17, 1870. 
ee following letter, in the Cottonian Collection of Manuscripts, 
saved from the fire at Ashburnham House, October 23, 
1731, and now in the British Museum, (Cottonian MSS., Otho E, 
XI., fol. 230), shows the state of the ports in Cornwall in 1593—5. 
The portions burnt have been supplied by a careful study of 
the context.* 
The “Barycades” alluded to, were, doubtless, hastily con- 
structed fortifications on the coast. 
A Map of the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall, without 
date, but evidently made at the same time, and now in the British 
Museum, (Cottoman MSS., Aug: 1: Vol. I: 6), represents this 
plan of fortifications; of which, Sir Thomas Baskerville says: 
“the placis where to sett those Barycades I have shewid them.” 
It is labelled: “A plott of all the Coast of Cornwall and Devon- 
shire, as they were to be fortyfied in 1588, against the landing of 
any Enemy”; very neatly drawn on vellum, on two sheets, meas- 
uring together 5 ft. 2 in. x 2 ft. (Cott: Aug. I. i. 6). This has 
been engraved by Pine, and was published with his plates of the 
tapestry hangings of the House of Lords, which represented the 
defeat of the Spanish Armada.—See also the “Report on the 
* Tn the following printed copy, they are indicated by Jtalics. 
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