OF CORNWALL. 30; 
Till all the purple current dry’d and fpent, 
He fell, and made the waves his monument. 
Where fhall the next fam’d Granville’s afhes ftand ? 
Thy Grandfire fills the fea, and thou the land. MmmLeweilyn, 
I make no apology for inferring thefe verfes ; it is lufficient that the 
noble founder of this monument, whofe poetical abilities will not 
be difputed, chofe to infcribe them on marble rather than any of 
his own compofition. 
To a6t impartially, I muff turn the difagreeable fide of mysECT.xiv. 
countrymen as well as the honourable to the reader, it being no m manners, 
more my defign to conceal than to juffify their failings. The 
lower fort of people is reckoned litigious u ; the truth is, that in 
mining as well as fifhing there are very numerous and minute fub- 
divifions of property, every working-tinner, though little or no- 
thing worth, fhall have oftentimes ~ or ~, and fometimes a lefs 
fhare of the adventure ; thefe perfons, if the adventure proves a 
lofing one, as is frequently the cafe, prove the more unwilling the 
lefs they are able to pay the coffs incurred. Again : Thofe little 
adventures do oftentimes fhift hands, are bought and fold, and 
bought again : this produces wranglings, and frequent application 
to the law-courts. Again : The number of materials necefTary to 
mining and fifhing, is fo great, that it entangles the people with a 
great diverfity of fellers of ropes, candles, powder, iron, timber, 
fait, flax, hemp, line, and the mechanics who work them up ; the 
more bargains the more difputes, fbme ill-defigning perfons being 
always ready to inflame and exaggerate rather than to appeafe the 
numerous diffentions to which fuch an intricate commerce is perpe- 
tually liable. A fecond reafon of litigioufnefs in Cornwall, is, that 
we have as many forts of law-courts here, as in any part of Eng- 
land. Befides the Courts of Aflize and Ecclefiaftical Courts, there 
is the Lord Warden’s Court, from which there is a farther appeal 
to the Duke of Cornwall in Council ; the Vice-Warden’s Court 
held every month, and the Stannary-Courts held every three weeks 
for tin-caufes. Here are alfo Court-leets of the Duke of Cornwall, 
and other Lords of Manors, for debts and difputes relating to pro- 
perty. By means of all thefe there is too open and eafy accefs to law- 
contentions for the advantage of private families. Litigioufnefs is 
therefore partly the fault of the inhabitants, and in part the refult 
of their polity and that multifarious trade to which their mining and 
flfhery unavoidably expofes them; whereas in counties where hufban- 
dry is the chief or foie employ, bufinefs is in fewer hands, bargains 
plain and eafily adjufted, and the gains not fo great as to prompt 
thofe of a middle rank immediately to go to law. 
“ Car. page 67. 
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