. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. 368 THE GRENVILES ch. xx Cornwall, or are they more properly described as a Cornishfamily who kept a town house at Bideford, where they ownedthe manor ? Who shall decide this problem, rendered doublydifficult by the fact that both at Bideford and at Stowe thesettlement of the Grenviles dates back to a Norman of thename who conquered Glamorgan in the reign of WilliamRufus. Prince, who often hid a grasping disposition beneath asemblance of moderation, protests ingenuously that Cornwallcannot be allowed to have all the Grenviles, and then calmlyappropr
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. 368 THE GRENVILES ch. xx Cornwall, or are they more properly described as a Cornishfamily who kept a town house at Bideford, where they ownedthe manor ? Who shall decide this problem, rendered doublydifficult by the fact that both at Bideford and at Stowe thesettlement of the Grenviles dates back to a Norman of thename who conquered Glamorgan in the reign of WilliamRufus. Prince, who often hid a grasping disposition beneath asemblance of moderation, protests ingenuously that Cornwallcannot be allowed to have all the Grenviles, and then calmlyappropriates them all for Devon. I, more honourably, havefollowed Fullers principle. For he laid down that the Gren-viles were enough to make one county proud, or two happy ;and so in Cornwall I dealt with Sir Bevil only, conceiving thatto the glory of his deeds, at any rate, Bideford can lay but littleclaim. For Sir Bevils politics were little valued on the banksof the Torridge. Bideford, like Barnstaple, and indeed, mostother towns in Devon, was
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