The Blackmore country . sumed in QueenElizabeths reign, but seems to have been checkedby the influx of water. However, a greatquantity of silver is said to have been raised andrefined, mainly through the enterprise of AdrianGilbert and Sir Beavois Bulmer, who bargainedfor half the profit. Each partner realised,£10,000. The owner of the land, RichardRoberts, who happens to have been Westcotesfather-in-law, presented William Bourchier, Earlof Bath, with a rich and rare cup, bearingthe quaint inscription :— In Martins Comb long lay I hiyd, Obscurd, deprest wth grossest soyle, Debased mucb wth mix
The Blackmore country . sumed in QueenElizabeths reign, but seems to have been checkedby the influx of water. However, a greatquantity of silver is said to have been raised andrefined, mainly through the enterprise of AdrianGilbert and Sir Beavois Bulmer, who bargainedfor half the profit. Each partner realised,£10,000. The owner of the land, RichardRoberts, who happens to have been Westcotesfather-in-law, presented William Bourchier, Earlof Bath, with a rich and rare cup, bearingthe quaint inscription :— In Martins Comb long lay I hiyd, Obscurd, deprest wth grossest soyle, Debased mucb wth mixed lead, Till Bulmer came, whoes skill and toyle Refined me so pure and cleen, As ryeber no wher els is scene. And adding yet a farder grace, By fashion he did inable Me worthy for to take a place To serve at any Princes table ,Comb Martyn gave the Oare alone,Bulmer fyningand fashion. Another cup was given to Sir Richard Martin,Lord Mayor of London, who was also master andmanager of the Mint, the design being that it. COMBMARTIN CHUKCH. THE SHORE OF DEATH 273 should remain in the permanent possessionof the Corporation. It weighed 137 oz., and likeits fellow, was engraved with naive, and, I fear,doggerel verses. When water workes in broaken wharfe At first erected were,And Beavis Buhner with his art The waters, gan to reare,Disperced I in earth dyd lyeSince all beginnings old, In place cald Comb wher Martin longHad hydd me in his molde. I did no service on the earth,Nor no man set me free, Till Bulmer by skill and chargeDid frame me this to be. The Latin appendices to the poems showthe date of the presentations to have been theyear 1593 ; and Blackmore seems to refer to themwhen he speaks of the inaccurate talesconcerning the silver cup at Combmartin, sentto Queen Elizabeth (Lorna Doonc, chapter lviii.).Ultimately the flooding, with which there wasno means of effectually coping, put a stopto the operations; but it is possible that theywere not entirely suspended, as a few yea
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