Biography and Memoir

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Cornish Characters and Strange Events

By Sabine Baring-Gould

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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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Publish dateJul 3, 2021

LanguageEnglish

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 &quot;KENT&quot;

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&#x27;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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