less willing to serve you, than under you."

The Reader will, I hope, excuse my transcribing here the whole
Epistle. These Addresses are a true Test of an Author's Wit and
Genius. And who can be displeased with so just a Character of one
of the greatest Men of our Nation? Mr. Carew subscribes himself,
His Lordships poor Kinsman, Richard Carew of Antonie; but how he was
related to him, I could not yet find. Sir Walter Raleigh had a Son,
whose Christen-name was Carew; and probably our Author was his
Godfather.

In his Preface, Mr. Carew observes, that when he first composed this
Treatise, not minding that it should be published in Print, he caused
only certain written Copies to be given to some of his Friends ......
But since that time, Master Camden's often mentioning this Work, and
his Friends Persuasions, had caused his Determination to alter, and to
embrace a pleasing Hope, that Charity and good Construction would rest
now generally in all Readers.

"Besides", says he, " the State of our Country hath
undergone so many Alterations, since I first began these
Scriblings, that, in the reviewing, I was driven either
likewise to vary my Report, or else to speak against my
Knowledge....

Reckon therefore (I pray you) that this Treatise plotteth
down Cornwall, as it now standeth, for the particulars,
and will continue, for the general."

Mr. Carew's Survey of Cornwall was receiv'd, when it came out, (as it