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MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



tosses it up in the midst between both parties ; he that 

 catches it endeavonrs to run with it to the furthermost 

 goal ; if he be stopped by one of the opposite side, he 

 either saith I will stand, and wrestles with him, letting 

 fall the ball by him, (which one of the opposite side must 

 not take up, but one of his own,) or else throws the ball 

 to one of his own side, (if any of them can catch it). 

 He that is stopped may chuse whether he will wrestle, or 

 throw away the ball ; but it is more generous to wrestle. 

 He that stops must answer, and wrestle it out. When 

 any one wrestles, one of his side takes up the ball, and 

 runs with it towards the goal, till he be stopped, and 

 then, as before, he either wrestles or throws away the 

 ball, so that there are commonly many pairs wrestling at 

 once. An out-hurling is played by one parish against 

 another, or eastern men against western, or Devonshire 

 men against Cornish; the manner they enter it is as 

 follows. Any one that can get leave of a justice, &c., 

 goes into a market-town, with a little wooden ball in his 

 hand, plated over with silver, and there proclaims the 

 hurling, and mentions the time and place. They play 

 in the same manner as in the other, only they make their 

 churches their goals, that party which can cast the ball 

 into, or upon a church, wins. In an out-hurling they 

 have not a set number on each side, but each have as 

 many as they can procure. An hurler, to help him in 

 running, may catch hold on an horseman's stirrup. No 

 horsemen play. Saltash is governed by a mayor and 

 aldermen. On a woody bank (by a comb), to the south 

 of Saltash, we first found Lamium melissce folio \_Melittis 

 rn^elissophyllum, Linn.] growing in great plenty. We 

 observed no parks in Cornwall ; their fences are for the 

 most part earthen or stone walls ; often, instead of a stile, 

 you have only a gap in the wall, and a grate to pass over, 

 after the manner of college grates, only ruder, and of 

 wood or stone. 



Monday, July the 7th, we went on to Plymouth, but 

 by the way diverted to Stanehouse, a little town, not far 



