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think the remains of fuch a pool are Fill to be dilcovercd, though 
the fea has demolifhed the walls. The Cornifh call this immerfion, 
BouJJening , from Beuzi or Bidhyzi , in the Cornu- britifh and Ar- 
moric, ftgnifying to dip, or drown. Belgice Buy fan (lays Lye’s 
Junius m BowfeJ unde Anglice Bowie pot are , largiter bib ere. This 
may feem to the generality fo very impotent a remedy, that people 
might eafily be perfuaded to look upon any cure that enfued as the 
miraculous effedt of the holy water, and the interpolation of St. 
Nun ; but if we recollect that madnefs is no other than a raging 
fever that interrupts for a while, and diftipates all congruity be- 
twixt ideas and things, we may foon fatisfy ourfeives, that without 
any miracle, fo violent an exercife of the body in cold water was 
no contemptible prefcription, fomething very like this method in 
parallel cafes having been approved of and pradtifed by the greateft 
phyiicians E . 
Among the punifhments inftidted in Cornwall of old time was Cocking- 
that of the cocking-flool h , a feat of infamy where ftrumpets and ftooL 
fcolds, with bare foot and head, were condemned to abide the deri- 
lion of thofe that palled by, for fuch time as the bailiffs of manors, 
which had the privilege of fuch jurifdidlion, did appoint. “ This 
jurifdidtion was granted, fays Hals 1 , [or rather at an inquilicion 
declared to belong] to the manor of Cotford Farlo, in the parifh of 
St. Wenn, Cornwall, in thofe words, lately to be feen in the records 
of the Exchequer : £U Maner . de Cotford-farlo , alias Lancorla in 
St. Wenn-moory temp. Hen. 3. Quia per objurgatrices et meretrices 
mult a mala in Maner io oriuntur, lites , pugne , diffamationes et alie 
multe inquiet ationes per earum putejias k ; igitur utimur de eifde?n quod 
cum capte fuerint , habeant judicium de Cocking-Jloof et ibi jlabunt 
nudis pedibuSy et fuis crinibus pendentibus ddfperfis tanto tempore ut 
afpici pojjint ab omnibus per viam tranfeuntibus fecundum voluntatem 
Balivorum nofirorum capitaliumH 
An ancient annual proceffion there was formerly at Loftwythyel a proceffion 
which retained fome traces of the royalties anciently belonging to 
the little kingdom of Cornwall : It was but of late years difeonti- 
nued, fays Mr. Carew, (page 138) who there gives us the following 
account of it : “ Upon Little Eafter Sunday, the freeholders of the 
town and manor did there affemble, amongft whom one (as it fell 
to his lot by turn) bravely apparelled, gallantly mounted, with a 
crown on his head, a feepter in his hand, a fword born before him, 
and dutifully attended by all the reft alfo on horfeback, rode thro’ 
the principal ftreet to the Church ; there the Curate in his beft 
2 See Sir J. Floyer of cold bathing. 1 M S Hiftory of Cornwall. 
h Redtius f. Coquine, anciently cockaigne, fig- k That is, Putagia , acts of fornication, Spelm. 
nifying an idle jade, a bafe woman. Hickesinjun. Glofiar. 
befeene 
