PRIDEAUX

PRIDEAUX. The castle of Prideaux, according to Tonkin (D. Gilbert's Cornwall, iii., oG), was " the seat of, and gave name to, a family which hath been very eminent both in this county and in Devonshire, and still flourisheth in both." " Some would derive it," he says, "from a French original : j}res d'cavx, near the waters, for the sea formerly iiowed up as high as this place." " The ancient family of Prideaux trace their descent from Pagauus, lord of Prideaux Castle, in Luxiiion, co. Cornwall, in the time of William I., where the family continued till the latter part of the fourteenth century." Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men,

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