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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19,
Issue 553, June 23, 1832

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VOL. 19. No. 553.] SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1832. [PRICE 2d.

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DUNHEVED CASTLE, CORNWALL.

[Illustration: DUNHEVED CASTLE, CORNWALL.]

These mouldering ruins occupy the crest of the hill, upon which stands
the town of Launceston, near the centre of the eastern side of the
county of Cornwall. They are the works of a thousand years since, when
might triumphed over right with an unsparing hand, and when men
perpetrated by fire and sword millions of murders, which, through the
ignorance and credulity of their fellow creatures, have been glossed
over with the vain glory of heroism.

The ancient name of Launceston was Dunheved, or the Swelling Hill; its
present appellation, according to Borlase, the antiquarian illustrator
of Cornwall, signifies, in mixed British, the Church of the Castle. The
latter structure is the most important object in the town, to which, in
all probability, it gave origin. The remains surround a considerable
extent of ground, and prove it to have been a very strong and important
fortress. Borlase, who examined the building with great attention about
the middle of the last century, thus describes it:--

"The principal entrance is on the nort