POSTCRIPT;

Containing some Notices of a large MS. Volume,

ENTITLED

"TRADITIONS AND

RECOLLECTIONS DOMESTIC

CLERICAL AND LITERARY:

In which are included

Letters of Charles the Second, Cromwell, Fairfax, Waller, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtenay, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Jackson, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, 'Hardinge and other distinguished characters."

THESE "TRADITIONS and RECOLLECTIONS," were put together for the sole use of the author's very large family: And perhaps about fifty copies of the volume may hereafter be printed.

For the present, a few extracts may not be una, musing to his readers.

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In 1677, we find Thomas Polwhele, Vicar of Newlyn,

It was in this year, that Nicholas Borlase of Treludra in Newlyn, was buried, on the 9th of November --

This Nicholas Borlase had been a Col. of Horse for the King--a title on which he so much valued himself, that he inserted it to his dying day, in all his deeds. "I have heard (says Tonkin) a pleasant story of him, from my father and the old Mr. Wood of Withiel. There was no good blood between him and the old Richard Lord Arundel; from their being perhaps too near neighbours, living in the same parish, and there being no great difference in their estates. Alluding to an exploit, therefore, on which he valued himself, his Lordship would often hit him in the teeth with "how he routed a great detachment of the "Parliament army with only one single troop of his "regiment"—"yes" (added the Lord Arundel)" by "running away." The fact was, the Colonel being very much pressed, and making a running fight, had so much presence of mind, as to set a large brake of furze on fire in the night-which the Parliament forces, taking for the fires made on the approach of the King's army, immediately fled, and left him both bag and bag, gage, which he seized, the next morning.

The usurping powers would never admit Col. Borlase to a composition, but kept him out of the greatest part of his large fortune, till the restoration: And he with his whole family, would have been reduced to beggary, but for another stratagem very singular and curious. One Sunday, under a pretended mistake for another's, be placed himself in the Protector's seat; and shuffling

to get out, on Oliver's entering it :-" No, no~(saith he) cousin Borlase !—I am glad to see you here !" (for Borlase was a papist)—and kept him with him đuring the sermon; and, withal smelling the joke, promised him assistance, on his preferring a petition for a maintenance. The Protector was as good as his word." Tonkin's MSS. penes De Dunstanville.

Not a relic of the Borlases worth noticing, remains at Treluddra. looked for the old Treluddra pippin; the parent of pippins equal, I think, in flavour to the golden: But I found the stump only of the original tree.

"Tho' a

Amidst all the acremony of the Civil War, urbanity was a distinguishing feature of the Cornish gentle"man." It was more, indeed, than urbanity: It was genuine benevolence. Tonkin speaks thus of Lance Esquire of Penare in St. Clements. "Justice of the Peace under the usurping powers, he "behaved himself with great civility to the distrest ca"valiers; whom he redressed as well as he could (as I "have been informed by Mr Polwhele, whose family "owe their decay to these villainous times)—and was "looked upon as a fine geleman,” See Tonkin's MSS. in St.Clement's, penes Lord De Dunstanville,

I have said, that the Cornish, in this war, were pe culiarly liberal in their allowance for opposing s utiments and interests. We must here except the Arun

dels; who were so inflamed with loyal zeal, that they treated even their relations on the contrary side, with unrelenting cruelty: And they met with reprisals. John Arundel of Trerise known by the name of " the old "Tilbury," (as having been in the camp there in 1588) or John for the King, was a Colonel in the King's army and Governor of Pendennis-Castle; which he bravely defended against the rebel army, till forced to surrender it for want of ammunition. One of his daughters died in a boat on the ore before Truro, where the family were refused admission."--Colonel John Arundel, son of old Tilbury, breaking in on the enemy's intrenchments at the siege of Plymouth in 1644, was shot dead on the spot by Captain Braddon; who had the assurance to go to Trerice, and demand of the old Gentleman the reward given by Parliament to one that should kill a field officer of the King's army."—" The Parliament was so exasperated against the whole family, that, deprived of their whole estate, they were reduced to great distress during the usurpation." Tonkin's MSS penes Ld. De Dunstanville.

"John Arundel (says Hals) had such zeal in that war, that it suppressed in him all natural affection. To his relation Colonel Hals, who immured in Lidford-dungeon addressed to him a letter representing his sufferings, he made only this verbal answer, "that he would hasten, if possible, his deliverance from Lidford-jayle by

a gallows execution; which he and his companions well deserved."

Hals's MSS.

Letter from E. Edgcumbe Esquire to the worship ful John Polwhele Esquire.

Lincoln's Inne 7th January 1637.

"Parson Harrison who was indicted in the King's bench on Monday was fined £5000 to the King, and was this day presented to all the Courts in Westminster with a paper in his hat signifieing his offence; and though he were ordered by the court to read his submission which was drawne up in writing, yet his stowteness would not give him heart to read that parte which concerned his offence against the Judge. He was afterwards carried back to the King's bench; and what will be the issue of this his contempt I know not. The Judge is left at liberty to right himselfe by takeing his legall course against him. Sir Richard Wiseman received his doom in the Starre Chamber yesterday, where he was fined £10,000 to the King, £5000 to my Lord Keep, £1000. to Mr. Justice Jones, and £500 to Mr. Tompson. He is to be degraded from his baronettship, to stand in the pillory and to loose his eares!