3 04 NATURAL HISTORY 
befeene folemnly received him at the Church-yard ftyle, and con- 
ducted him to hear Divine Service, after which he repaired with the 
fame pomp to a houfe fore-provided for that purpofe, made a feaft 
to his attendance, kept the table’s end himfelf, and was ferved with 
kneeling, allay, and all other rites due to the eftate of a Prince : 
with dinner the ceremony ended, and every man returned home 
again. The caufe and author out-reach remembrance howbeit thefe 
circumftances offer a conjecture that it fhould betoken the royalties 
appertaining to the honour of Cornwall.” 
sect. xiii. As to the manners of the inhabitants, they are generally allowed 
Manners. t Q be civilized and courteous to ftrangers, and this is no novel charac- 
ter, but Hands recorded as anciently as the times of Auguftus Casfar, 
and is attributed by Diod. Siculus 1 to that frequent intercourfe with 
merchants of foreign countries, which the traffic for their tin could 
not but occalion. Trjc yxg B^rawjrfif xxlx to axpalfyiov to kcO, xpevov 
BsA sgtov ol mloLxSvls? <pth6%evoi ts foxtyegov las sicn, n fox tjjv twv %svwv 
spro^wy i-Kiiu^ixv rot; xyuyx$. The gentry have the 
reputation of keeping up hofpitality in their country, and though 
fo remote from Court {hewed formerly (and it is hoped do Hill 
ffiew) fuch an aptnefs as well as capacity for the bufinefs of the 
Hate, that Queen Elizabeth ufed to fay, “ that the Corniffi gentle- 
men were all born courtiers with a becoming confidence m .” 
Surrounded (almoft) as they are by the fea, and reckoning themfelves 
as it were of another and different nation from the Englilh, in military 
expeditions they have generally kept themfelves more unmixed from 
the reft of the army they roll with, than the inhabitants of other 
counties ; they therefore held fome privileges peculiar to themfelves. 
In Egbert’s time they are faid to have challenged the honour of leading 
the van in the day of battle, an honour which Michael Cornubienfis 
fays, they enjoyed in the time of King Arthur. In Canute’s reign, 
whether the danger was greater in the rear upon fome remarkable 
retreat of his army, or whether the Dane piqued himfelf upon 
inverting all the Saxon order of battle, we find the Cornifh 
brought up the rear, which by }oh\ Sarifburienfis is attributed to 
their diftinguifhed valour \ Humphry Lhuyd in his breviary (page 3) 
calls them the ftouteft of all Britifh nations, and fays they were 
accounted to that time (1568) the moft valiant in warlike affairs. 
The ufual exercifes of hurling and wreftling which prevailed for- 
merly (and even in the remembrance of the prefent age) not only 
among the vulgar, but among the gentry alfo, who promoted thofe 
trials of ftrength and agility, headed their feveral parties, dealt the 
1 Lib. iv. page 301, Edit. Hanov. 1604. page 469. 
m See Floyd’s Memoirs of the Civil Wars, " Carew, page 83. 
ball, 
