own remarks from the whole, and have here added many, very many others.
October 26th 1790. J. W.
THE HUNDREDS OF CORNWALL.
LES-NEWITH. New Court. (Dr. Pryce).
I notice this first, because it points out the scope and drift of the other names. It is so called from the Court of the Hundred, Les-Newydh (C.) New Court, as being a new Hundred, and this new Court giving name to the place at which it was kept, near Tintagel.
STRATTON.
So called from Stratton, the seat of its Court, and therefore the head of the hundred. The hill full of fresh springs of waters (Dr. Pryce).
POWDRE.
So called from the Court House (I apprehend) called (I suppose) Pou Dre (C.) the house of the province. Pou Dar, the borough, country, or hundred of Oaks. (Dr. Pryce.)
PIDRE.