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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I SIR JOHN ELIOT. BOOK FIRST. JOHN ELIOT OF PORT ELIOT: MEMBER FOR ST. GERMANS. 1592-1619. .ST. 1-27. i. Ancestry and Youthful Days. n. Early Tastes, University, and Travel, in. Marriage; and Parliament, iv. Events in London, 1614 to 1619. I. Ancestry and Youthful Days. Jet. 1-15. John Eliot was ' a Cornishman born and an Esquire's son/1 his family being new residents in his native county, though of old Devonshire descent. The first who settled in Cornwall was his great-uncle, who obtained from the Champernowne family, in exchange for property near Ashburton, that estate of St. Germans Priory which has descended with the name and house of the Eliots, and belongs now to their living representative. From the gate of his house at Port Eliot, the Earl of St. Germans can almost stretch his hand to the Norman gate of the abbey church, whose magnificent ivied towers show still where the prior and his monks had their abode. But already was the old priory become a rough wild scene, when that family-seat sprang up amid its deserted courts and gardens, and took, from the river by which it stood near the ancient town of St. Germans, the name of Port Eliot. The 1 Wood's Ath. Oxon. ii. 478. ' Son and heir, ' says the Eliot pedigree in the British Museum, ' of Richard Eliot (and Bridget, daughter and co- heiress of Carswell of Hatton) of Port Eliot.' VOL. I. B small straggling place, little more in those days than a poor vi lage of fishermen, built irregularly on an uneven rock, and d( riving its scanty trade from the Tamar river which emptie's itsel into Plymouth, must have seeu with some surprise the gran new house take the place of the old dwelling of the monks, a. most fronting Lynher creek, from whose overflows a pier, strongl built against the river-banks, pro..
| ISBN-13 | 9781458974648 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458974642 |
| Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 In |
| List Price | $27.36 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 450 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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