. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. dred men, pike and shot,who forthwith sent their forlorn hope, consisting of their basestpeople, unto the straggled houses of the country, about half amile compass or more, by whom were burned not only thehouses they went by, but also the parish church of Paul, theforce of the fire being such as it utterly ruined the great stonepillars thereof. Others of them in that time burned that fishertown Mousehole; the rest marched as a guard for the defenceof these firers. This was a sad sight to see at breakfast time when leastexpected ; and it may serve to
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. dred men, pike and shot,who forthwith sent their forlorn hope, consisting of their basestpeople, unto the straggled houses of the country, about half amile compass or more, by whom were burned not only thehouses they went by, but also the parish church of Paul, theforce of the fire being such as it utterly ruined the great stonepillars thereof. Others of them in that time burned that fishertown Mousehole; the rest marched as a guard for the defenceof these firers. This was a sad sight to see at breakfast time when leastexpected ; and it may serve to bring home to our minds thevarious excitements of life in a Cornish coast town in old have already seen how lively the Sallee Rovers kept thecoast; and now we find the Spaniards dissipating course neither one nor the other was always on the when life threatened to be tedious through the lack offoreign enemies, the fishermen might generally be trusted tofind some bright and merry way of enlivening it. Let us take. 294 SEA MUTINEERS CH. XVII an instance. Early in February 1634-5 there was brought intoGwavas Lake, as the anchorage off Newlyn is called, a Spanishgalleon taken from the Dutch. She was a good deal batteredwhen brought in, and riding there in the rough wintry weatherwas cast away. The Dutch endeavoured by contract withcertain gentlemen of those parts, aided by Mr. Bassett andothers, to save the goods,—one would like to know thedetails of this contract—while the Spanish resident by warrantfrom the Admiralty arrested the ship, and what came out of was a pretty rivalry of conflicting claims, but there wasone more to be preferred with which neither the Dutch northe Spaniards, nor apparently the gentlemen of the county, hadreckoned, though they at all events might have anticipated all the endeavours of these various interested parties tosave the cargo were opposed by a riotous mob of the in-habitants of Mousehole and Markajew
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