Note 45 — ROMANCES OF THE MINERS.
Reading edition
“They maintaine these works to have been verie auncient, and first wrought by the Jewes with Pickaxes of Holme-Boxe and Hartshorne. They prove this by the name of those places yet enduring, to wit, Attall Sarazin, in English, the Jewes Offcast, and by those tooles daily found amongst the rubble of such workes.”—Survey of Cornwall. Carew. (Appendix F.)