CORNWALL
Reading edition
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS THE DESERT OF SOUTHERN FRANCE STRANGE SURVIVALS SONGS OF THE WEST A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG OLD COUNTRY LIFE YORKSHIRE ODDITIES FREAKS OF FANATICISM A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AN OLD ENGLISH HOME THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW THE CROCK OF GOLD
CORNISH FISHERMEN
A
BOOK OF THE WEST
BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO DEVON AND CORNWALL BY S. BARING-GOULD
VOL. II. CORNWALL
WITH THIRTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK: NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK CO. LONDON: METHUEN & CO. 1900
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Cornish Saints 1
II. The Holy Wells 28
III. Cornish Crosses 38
IV. Cornish Castles 44
V. Tin Mining 52
VI. Launceston 67
VII. Callington 96
VIII. Camelford 114
IX. Bude 134
X. Saltash 151
XI. Bodmin 163
XII. The Two Looes 173
XIII. Fowey 188
XIV. The Fal 200
XV. Newquay 214
XVI. The Lizard 242
XVII. Smuggling 263
XVIII. Penzance 282
XIX. The Land’s End 305
XX. The Scilly Isles 329
ILLUSTRATIONS
Cornish Fishermen Frontispiece
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
S. Melor’s Well, Linkinhorne To face page 28
From a photograph by the Rev. A. H. Malan.
Well Chapel of S. Clether ” 33
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Cross, S. Levan ” 38
Launceston ” 44
From an old print.
A Tin Mould ” 62
Launceston, Church Porch ” 67
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
Trewortha Marsh ” 83
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Plan of Habitation on Trewortha Marsh ” 84
By permission of the Daily Graphic.
The Council Hall, Trewortha Marsh ” 85
By permission of the Daily Graphic.
Callington ” 96
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Callington Cross ” 103
Drawn by F. B. Bond, Esq.
The Cheesewring ” 106
From an old engraving.
Arsenic Manufacture ” 109
From a photograph by F. B. Bond, Esq.
Arsenic Works ” 110
From a photograph by F. B. Bond, Esq.
King Arthur ” 118
From the tomb of Maximilian I. at Innsbruck.
Tintagel ” 122
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Beehive Hut ” 127
By permission of the Daily Graphic.
Bude ” 134
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Maces and Seal of Saltash ” 151
Drawn by F. D. Bedford, Esq.
In Saltash ” 152
Drawn by F. D. Bedford, Esq.
Anne Glanville ” 158
Chalice, Saltash ” 161
Padstow Harbour ” 163
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Fowey Harbour ” 188
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Lostwithiel Bridge ” 188
Drawn by F. B. Bond, Esq.
S. Mawe’s Castle ” 210
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
The Lizard ” 242
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Gunwalloe Church ” 254
From a sketch by F. B. Bond, Esq.
Mount’s Bay ” 262
From a photograph by Messrs. Gibson, Penzance.
Land’s End ” 305
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Chûn Quoit ” 326
From an old engraving.
The Pulpit Rock, Scilly ” 329
From a photograph.