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The Survey of Cornwall - And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew
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of Cornwall in 1586, and about that time was the Queens Deputy for
the Militia. And indeed we find in his Survey of Cornwall, that he
was Justice of the Peace, and one of the Quorum (F) : and that in the
Year 1599, (Sir Walter Raleigh being then Lieutenant General of
Cornwall) Mr. Carew was one of the Deputy Lieutenants, Treasurer of
the Lieutenancy, and Colonel of a Regiment, consisting of five
Companies, or 500 Men, armed with 170 Pikes, 300 Musquets, and 30
Calivers, appointed for Causam Bay (G).

There was at that time a Society of several Gentlemen, eminent for
their Learning and Merit, such as Sir Robert Cotton, Mr. Dodderidge,
(afterwards Sir John Dodderidge, who died one of the Judges of the
King's-Bench) Mr. Camden, Mr. Stow, &c. who had regular Meetings, or
Conferences, for the Improvement and Illustration of the History and
Antiquities of England. That Society had a particular Claim to our
Author; and in 1589 he was elected a Member of the College of the
Antiquaries (H). The Oration he made at his Introduction, contained,
(as I am informed by a Gentleman who saw it)

"an elegant Display of the Devastations Time so
swiftly makes upon all things; thence it subsides to
the Advantages and Commendations of that kind of Study,
they had chosen to be the Subject of their Conferences :
and concludes with a pathetical Exhortation to his
Auditory, That they would persevere in establishing what
they had so nobly begun, and continue to employ their
Labours upon those things, which were worthy of them;
that so they might not be drawn into Oblivion themselves,
by that which they would rescue from it, and that Time
might not rob them of aught more considerable than that
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