situated 50 miles in the sea, off the north-west coast of Devonshire, is five miles long and two broad, but so encompassed with inaccessible rocks, that it has but one entrance to it, so narrow that two men can scarcely go abreast. It is reckoned in the hundred of Brandon. It had once both a fort and a chapel. The south part of it is indifferent good soil, but the north part of it is barren, and has a high pyramidal rock called the Confable. Here are horses, kine, hogs, and goats, with great store of sheep and rabbits; but the chief commodity is fowl, with which it abounds much, their eggs being very thick on the ground at their season of breeding. No venomous creature will live in this island. In the reign of Henry VIII. one William Morico, who had conspired to murder him at Woodstock, fled to this island, which he fortified, turned pirate, and did much damage to this coast; but was taken by surprize at length, with 16 of his accomplices, and put to death.