Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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    best we had seen in Cornwall. In this parish did live the ancient family of the Carmino’s, which is now extinct. Friday, July the 4th, we set out for Bodmin; by the way we saw Roche Rock, of a great height, standmg in the highest part of a large moor. Near the church of Roche, on the top of the rock, was a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, now rumed. ‘There is nothmg very remark- able in Bodmin, only a very large and fair church, with a spire-steeple, of which there are very few in Cornwall. The water which supplies the conduit (as Carew observes) runs through the church-yard. ‘There are a great many tanners in this town. We did not see what Carew men- tions of the kitchens and out-houses bemg up stairs, neither is the place held to be unhealthful, so far as we could learn. Saturday, July the 5th, we travelled on to Saltash, and passed St. Neot’s, and so went to the other half stone (so called) which hath an ancient inscription upon it, but is so weather-beaten that it is not legible. Upon the top of an high rock, about two miles north of St. Clere, are those stones which they call the Cheese-wring,* of which Speed hath given a figure. These seem to be naturally so piled one upon another, the least at the bottom ; they lie askew and not perpendicularly. A little below, and nearer St. Clere, are the stones called the hurlers, which are oblong rude stones, pitched in the ground on one end, standing in three circles, the middle- most the greatest ; their centers seem to be in one right lme: about half a mile from these, on the downs, stands a stone called the Long-stone, more than two yards and an half high, having a cross on both sides of it. We had an account of a hurlmg-play much used in Cornwall. There are two kinds of hurling, the in-hurling and the out-hurling. In the first there are chosen twenty or twenty-five of a side, and two goals are set up; then comes one with a small hard leather ballin his hand, and * See Mr. Borlase’s ‘ Antiquities of Cornwall.’