Note 5 — EXCURSION I.

“The glorie of Fowey,” says Leland, “rose by the warres in King Edwarde the Firste and Thirde, and Harrey the 5 day, partely by the feates of warre, partly by pyracie, and so waxing rich fell all to Merchandize; so that the Towne was haunted with shippes of divers Nations, and their shippes went to all Nations, it also appears by the roll of the huge fleet of Edward the Thirde before Calice, inserted in Hakaby’s Voyages that Fowey contributed 47 ships and 770 mariners, being a greater number than came from any other port in England, except Yarmouth.”—Carew in his time, speaking of the prosperous state of Fowey, says, “I may not pass in silence the commendable deserts of Master Rashleigh the elder, descended from a younger brother of an ancient house in Devon, for his industrious judgment and adventuring the Trade of Marchandize first opened a light and way to the townsmen now thriving, and left his sonne large Wealth and possessions, who together with daily bettering his estate, converteth the same to hospitality and other actions befitting a Gentleman well affected to his God, Prince and Country.”