“Ratte Island.
“Saynct Lides Isle wher yn tymes past at her sepulchre was gret superstition.
“There appere tokens in diverse [of] the islettes of habitations [now] clene doun.
“Guiles and puffinnes be t[aken in] diverse of these islettes.
“And plenty of conyes be in diverse of these islettes.
“Diverse of [these] islettes berith wyld garlyk.
“Few men be glad to inhabite these islettes, for al the plenty, for robbers by the sea that take their catail by force. The robbers be Frenchmen and Spaniardes.
“One Davers a gentilman of Wilshir whos chief house at Daundesey, and Whitington, a gentilman of Glocestreshire, be owners of Scylley; but they have scant 40 marks by yere of rentes and commodities of it.
“Scylley is a kenning, that is to say about xx. miles from the very westeste pointe of Cornwalle.”
The following additional notes on Scilly are also found amongst Leland’s papers:—