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ball, and rewarded the vidtors) contributed furely from all antiquity 
to make them active, and boldly face their adverfaries ; moreover 
the occupation of miners hardens the conftitution fas has been obferved 
before), and renders it more patient of thofe excefl'es to which the life 
of a foldier is fo frequently expofed ; thefe perhaps were the reafons 
why the Cornifh gentlemen and their forces, as well without, as 
within their own county, won immortal honour by their behaviour in 
the civil wars during the reign of Charles the firft : of their bravery and 
loyalty that King was equally fenfible, and diftinguifhed them from the 
reft of his fubjedls by the following letter, which he ordered to be read 
and preferved in every Church and Chapel throughout the County. 
G. R. 
To the Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall. 
U TX 7 " ^ are hi g% f en fi^ e °f t ^ e extraordinary merit of our 
’ * county of Cornwall, of their zeal for the defence of our 
perion, and the juft rights of our Crown, in a time when we could 
contribute fo little to our own defence or to their aftiftance ; in a 
time when not only no reward appeared, but great and probable 
dangers were threatned to obedience and loyalty ; of their great and 
eminent courage and patience in their indefatigable profecution of 
their great work againft fo potent an enemy, backed with fo ftrong, 
rich, and populous cities, and fo plentifully furnifhed and fupplied 
with men, arms, money, ammunition, and provifion of all kinds, 
and of the wonderful fuccels with which it pleafed Almighty God 
( though with the lofs of fome moft eminent perfons who fhall never 
be forgotten by us) to reward their loyalty and patience by many 
ftrange victories over their and our enemies, in defpight of all human 
probability, and all imaginable difad vantages, that as we cannot 
be forgetful of fo great defert, fo we cannot but deftre to publifh it 
to all the world, and perpetuate to all time the memory of their 
merits, and of our acceptance of the fame ; and to that end we do 
hereby render our royal thanks to that our County in the moft 
publick and lafting manner we can devife, commanding copies 
hereof to be printed and publifhed, and one of them to be read in 
every Church and Chapel therein, and to be kept for ever as a re- 
cord in the fame, that as long as the hiftory of thefe times, and of 
this nation fhall continue, the memory of how much that county 
hath merited from us, and our crown, may be derived with it to 
pofterity.” 
Given at our Camp at Sudely Cattle, 
the 10th of September, 1643. 
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