Cornish Characters and Strange Events
By Sabine Baring-Gould
Length23h 7m
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Excerpt: "The isolation in which Cornwall had stood has tended to develop in it much originality of character; and the wildness of the coast has bred a hardy race of seamen and smugglers; the mineral wealth, moreover, drew thousands of men underground, and the underground life of the mines has a peculiar effect on mind and character: it is cramping in many ways, but it tends to develop a good deal of religious enthusiasm, that occasionally breaks forth in wild forms of fanaticism. Cornwall has produced admirable sailors, men who have won deathless renown in warfare at sea, as "Old Dreadnought" Boscawen, Pellew, Lord Exmouth, etc., and daring and adventurous smugglers, like "The King of Prussia," who combined great religious fervour with entire absence of scruple in the matter of defrauding the king's revenue."
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length23 hrs 7 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
42CHARLES INCLEDON
2ILLUSTRATIONS
43THE MURDER OF RICHARD CORYTON
3WILLIAM PENGELLY, GEOLOGIST
44SIR JAMES TILLIE, KNT.
4SIR CHARLES WILLS, K.B.
45LIEUTENANT JOHN HAWKEY
5LIEUTENANT GOLDSMITH AND THE LOGAN ROCK
46DR. DANIEL LOMBARD
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6HUGH PETERS, THE REGICIDE
47THE DREAM OF MR. WILLIAMS
7JAMES POLKINGHORNE, THE WRESTLER
48SIR ROBERT TRESILIAN
8HENRY TRENGROUSE, INVENTOR
49PIRATE TRELAWNY
9THE BOTATHAN GHOST
50JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM
10JOHN COUCH ADAMS, ASTRONOMER
51MARY ANN DAVENPORT, ACTRESS
11DANIEL GUMB
52THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PRUSSIA
12LAURENCE BRADDON
53CAPTAIN RICHARD KEIGWIN
13THOMASINE BONAVENTURA
54THE LOSS OF THE "KENT"
14THE MURDER OF NEVILL NORWAY
55VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES V. PENROSE
15SIR WILLIAM LOWER, KNT.
56SIR CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS, BART.
16THE PIRATES AT PENZANCE
57ANNE JEFFERIES
17DAME KILLIGREW
58THOMAS KILLIGREW, THE KING'S JESTER
18TWO NATURALISTS IN CORNWALL
59NICOLAS ROSCARROCK
19SIR JOHN CALL, BART.
60LIEUTENANT PHILIP G. KING
20JOHN KNILL
61HICKS OF BODMIN
21THOMAS TREGOSS
62CAPTAIN TOBIAS MARTIN
22ANTHONY PAYNE
63THE MAYOR OF BODMIN
23NEVIL NORTHEY BURNARD
64JOHN NICHOLS TOM,
24SIR GOLDSWORTHY GURNEY, KNT., INVENTOR
65THE BOHELLAND TRAGEDY
25THE JANES
66MARY KELYNACK
26THE PENNINGTONS
67CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROGERS
27DOCTOR GLYNN-CLOBERY
68JOHN BURTON, OF FALMOUTH
28THREE MEN OF MOUSEHOLE
69THE FATE OF SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL
29DOLLY PENTREATH
70FRANCIS TREGIAN
30ROBERT JEFFERY OF POLPERRO
71ANN GLANVILLE
31ADMIRAL RICHARD DARTON THOMAS
72JONATHAN SIMPSON, HIGHWAYMAN
32COMMANDER JOHN POLLARD
73DAVIES GILBERT
33THE CASE OF BOSAVERN PENLEZ
74JAMES HOSKIN, FARMER
34SAMUEL FOOTE
75JOHN HARRIS, THE MINER POET
35THE LAST LORD MOHUN
76EDWARD CHAPMAN
36THE LAST LORD CAMELFORD
77JOHN COKE, OF TRERICE
37WILLIAM NOYE
78THOMAS PELLOW, OF PENRYN
38WILLIAM LEMON
79THE ORIGIN OF THE ROBARTES FAMILY
39SAMUEL DREW
80THEODORE PALEOLOGUS
40THE SIEGE OF SKEWIS
81FOOTNOTES:
41THE VOYAGE OF JOHN SANDS
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