From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Cornish translator and antiquary, born 1555 at East Antony.   
   Best known for his _Survey of Cornwall_ (1602). But our linguistic   
   interest is in "An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English   
   Tongue" (1605). He praises English as being, not just as good as Latin,   
   but better. Crystal quotes a passage in which he extols the copiousness   
   of the English vocabulary, by listing 30 different ways to say "Go away!"   
   There was a lot of this about in those years -- Nebrija's grammar and   
   dictionary of Spanish (1490s, the first of any modern European   
   language); du Bellay's _Défense et illustration de la langue française_   
   (1549) -- just to name a couple I've heard of -- all asserting the worth   
   of modern languages as objects of study, as vehicles for literature and   
   statesmanship -- against the exclusivity of Latin.   
      
   The Epistle is here:   
   https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/elizabethan-critical-essays/the   
   excellency-of-the-english-tongue-15956/   
      
   also online as an appendix to the _Survey of Cornwall_, which is how it   
   was first published.   
      
   I didn't find anything about whether Carew himself actually spoke   
   Cornish, or wrote anything in it.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carew_(antiquary)   
      
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