Cornish Characters and Strange Events

Abbot, Archbishop, 334 Abder-Rhuman, 715 Abercrombie, Dr., 427, 428 Aberdeen, University of, 34 Abingdon, 127 Abyssinia, Prince of, 599 Account of the Desperate Affray in Blean Wood, etc., 612 Account of the English Colony of New South Wales, 568 Account of R. Jeffery, 257 Acharnania, 508 Acombe, 12 Acton, 403, 477, 673 Actor, Mr., 275 Adams, 252 Adams, John Couch, 189 — birth and upbringing, 84 — character of, 88, 89, 90 — discoverer of Neptune, 86, 88 — early observation, 84 Adams, Mr., 322, 714 Adams, Mr. John, 463 Adams, Thomas, 83 Adams, William Grylls, 89, 90 Addison, Joseph, 644 Admiral Hood, 602 Admiralty order replacement of logan stone, 20, 23 Adoption of poor children, 533 Adour, 504 Advent, 425 Adventure Series, 708 Adventures of a Younger Son, 445, 452, 454 Ætna, 267 Agamemnon's tomb, 448 Agar, Charles R., 726 Agar, Thomas James, 726 Age of Reason, 358 Agnes, 649 Agnus Dei, 656 Agreeable Surprise, The, 469 Ainsworth, Harrison, on "Courtenay," 605 Airy, 86, 88 Alarm, 664 Albanian revolt, 728 Albert, Prince, 621 Albion, 248, 249 Alderton, 487 Aldrich, Dean, 213 Alexander, 559, 561 Alexander the Great, 300 Alexandria, 459, 686 Algerine Corsair at Penzance, 130 Algerine

pirates, 332 Algiers, 507, 617, 715 Ali Pacha, 508-514 — at home, 510-513 — human butcher, 509 All, the five alls, 550 Allen, river, 118 Alligator, 196 Alligators attract patients, 632 All the Year Round, 93 Almanza, 12 Altarnon, 73, 80, 186, 187, 190 Amaza, 416 Amell, 340 Ames, Dr. William, 34 Ammonites, superstition concerning origin of, 4 Amurath, 728 Anagram of Noye, 339 Andalusian Moors, 711 Anderson, Captain, 62 Andromache, 505 "Angel, The," 542 Anglesea, Earl of, 298 Anglo-Mexican Company, 493 Anguella, 251 Annals of King James, 615 Anne of Bohemia, 433 Anne, Queen, 219, 299, 307, 310, 318, 372, 639 Annesley, Lady Philippa, 298 Annual Register, 58 Annual Report of the Society of Arts, 64 note Anson, H.M.S., salvage of, 62 — wreck of, 60, 71 Anson, Lord, 158 Antony and Cleopatra, 205 Antigua, 320 Antiquities of Cornwall, 18 Antony ferry, 225 Antwerp, 26 Anyada, 250 Antelope, 645 Anthem, Cornish, 577 Antiquary, The, 547 Ap Rice, Mr., 288 Arabia, Prince of, 600 Ararat, 406 Arbuthnot, Sir Charles, 529 Archæologia, 730 Arcot, 159, 164 Argand lamp, 202 Argos, 448 Argus, 689 Argyro-Kastro, 509 Arithmetic, Walkinghame's, 3 Arms of Braddon family, 107 — of Byzantine Empire, 727 — of

Call family, 155, 167 — of Clobery family, 231 — of Foote family, 280 — of Jane family, 206 — of Lake family, 251 — of Noye family, 341 — of Pennington family, 224 — of Robartes family, 726 — of Sandys family, 374 — of Tillie family, 402, 405 — of Tilly family, 407 — of Wills family, 12 Armstrong, Major, 609, 610, 613 Around and about Saltash, 665 Arslan, 508 Arta, 508 Arundell, 646 Arundel family, the, 157 Arundel, Earl of, 435 Arundell, Henry, Lord, 173 Arundell, Humphrey, 588, 589, 591 Arundell, Mary, 730 Arundell, Roger, 592 Arundell, Sir John, 136, 661 Arundell, Sir Thomas, 137 Arundell, William, 730 Arundel Street, 301 Arwenack, 133, 134, 135, 137, 140 Asan, 728 Ashburton, 200 Ashfield, Dame, 468-9 Assassinations and Civil Wars, 426 Assistance, H.M.S., 488 Association, wreck of the, 640, 643, 647, 651 Astley, 203 Astley, Sir Jacob, 126, 723 Aston Clinton, 251 Astronomy, 86 Astronomy, ignorance of, 593 As You Like It, 467 Athenæum, 88, 452 — founded by Buckingham, 464 Athens, 446, 452 Atkins, Sir Robert, 101 Atlas, 181 Atterbury, 219 "Auction of Pictures, An," 287 Audrey, 516 Augsberg Island, 420 Aunt Mavor's Storybooks, 622 Authentic Account of the late unfortunate Death of

Lord Camelford, 328 Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room, 467, 469 Author, The, 288 Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler, 473 Autobiography of John Harris, 697 Avalon Peninsula, 265 Avery, Captain John, 173 Avery, Dr., 194 Ayres, Mr., 119 Azila, 714 Babbage, 88 Badcock, John, volunteers for Terra del Fuego, 233 — dies of privations, 235 Bagdad, 462 Bagshot Heath, 672 Bahia, 422 Bailey, Mr., 188 Baker, Mr. Henry, 105, 347, 351 Ball, John, 432 Ball, Lieutenant, 565 Ballads, "Chevy Chase," 703 — "The fight of the Monmouth and Foudroyant," 377 — "The Highwayman," 630 Ballads, "Rosamond Clifford," 703 — "Rule Britannia," 377 — sung by Incledon, 386 — "The Storm," 380, 386 — "'Twas Thursday," 377 — of wrestling, 58 Ballot Society, 627 Balls, Mary, 727, 729 — William, 727 Baltic, 67 Banks, Sir Joseph, 233, 679 Bannister, 380 Banns of marriage, 578 Bantry Bay, 638 Banza, 419 Baptista, Signor, 552 Barabbas, 40 Barbados, 623 Barcelona, 477, 640 Barff, Mr., 451 Barfleur, 261 Bargus, Mr. Samuel, 262, 264 Barlow, Bishop, 32 Barming Heath, 603 Barnardiston, Sir Samuel, 483, 484 Barnstaple, 455, 659, 665 Baronetage, 156 Baron Munchausen's Travels, 2 Barrey, Lord, 547 Barrie, Captain, 327

Barrington, Admiral, 238 Barrington, Hon. Daines, 238, 241 — visits Dolly Pentreath, 239, 240 Barrow, Sir John, 415, 423 Barthlever, 528 Bartholomew Fair, 271, 552 Bartlett, Rafe, 388, 393, 397 — confession of, 389, 395 Barwell, Nabob, 525 Barwick, Dr. J., 45 Baseley, Richard, 388, 397 — confession of, 389, 392, 394 Bashaw, Inglis, 716 Basset, Sir Francis, 519 Bassiere, 314 Batavia, 568 Bate, Mrs., 346 Bath, 198, 200, 290, 377, 466 — Cathedral, Lady Chapel of, 32 Bath, Earl of, 182, 183, 184 Bathurst, Mr. C., 253, 256 Battye, Philadelphia, 165 — William, 165 Bawden, Giles, 540 Baxter, Richard, 209 Bayonne, 196, 504, 505 Bay of Biscay, 489 Beacon Hill, 723 Beaver, 321 Beddoes, Dr. Thomas, 676 Bedford, Earl of, 139 Behethlan, 614; see Bohelland. Behethlan, Joan, 614 — John, 614 — Margery, 614 Beirout, 597, 599 Bell, Lieut. John, 64 Bell-casting, 224-6 Bell-founders, 224, 225, 226 Bell-ringing, competitions, 223 — mysterious, 284 — song of, 223 Bells, baptism of, 222 — inscriptions on, 222 — removed, 592 Belle Poule, 505 Bellingham, Mr., 427, 430 Bellot, Anne, 516, 517 — Christopher, 516 Bemba Ganga, 417 Ben, John, 649 Benbow, Admiral, 372 Bennett, Lieutenant, 609, 610 Bentinck, Mr.

Cavendish, 634 Berat, 509 Beresford, Lord Charles, 669 Bergh, 47 Berkeley, Earl of, 647 — Hon. Charles, 140 — Sir G. Cranfield, 648 Berlin, The, 70 Bermuda, 35 Berne, 319 Berry, Mr., 418 Berry Pomeroy, 592 Bessie's Cove, 470 Best, Captain Thomas, 479 — Mr., 324-8, 519 Beveridge, 215 Biagi, D. Guido, 454 Bible explains fossils, 4 Bibliographia Cornubiensis, 556 note Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, 245 Bideford, 633 Bignell, George Carter, 141 — early life of, 144 — entomologist, 147-153 Bignor, 517 Bingham, Captain, 299 Biographica Dramatica, 296 Biographical Dictionary of English Catholics, 556 note Biographical Dictionary of Poets, 231 Biographical Sketches in Cornwall, 340 Birmingham, 467 Birthday, The, 469 Bishop and his Clerks, 640 Bishop of Bath and Wells, 32 — of Carlisle, 89 — of Exeter, 140, 219, 425 — of Lichfield, 32 — of London, 27, 43, 215 — of Oxford, 207 — of Rochester, 213 — of Salisbury, 211 — of S. David's, 32 — of Winchester, 643, 649 Black Friars, The, 544 "Black Lion," 144 Black Sea, 67 Blackwood, John, 648 — Shovell, 648 Blague, Thomas, 127 Blake, Admiral, 45 Blanchard, Mr., 608 Blanche, 248, 250 Blean, The, 607, 612 Blenheim, 260 Blewett, George, 343 Bligh boy sees

ghost, 74-80 Bligh, Edmund, 81 — family, the, 74, 79, 81 — Mr., 74, 81, 701 — Thomas, 81 — Walter, 81 Blight, Mr. J. T., 143 Blockly, 81 Bloomsbury, 165 Blossom Underwing, 149 "Blue Boar's Head," 542 Board of Trade, 68 Boase & Courtney, Messrs., 556 note — Dr., 680 Boat-races at Saltash, 663 Bochym, 517 Boconnoc, 298, 317, 318, 319, 328 Bodannan, 280 Bodener, William, 242 Bodleian Library, 615 Bodmin, 37, 117, 120, 121, 125, 133, 166, 179, 224, 225, 226, 280, 351, 455, 516, 520, 522, 531, 535, 569, 578, 589, 627, 659, 663, 678 Bodmin Asylum and its inhabitants, 570-572 — Gaol, 531, 540, 542, 570, 583 — Hills, 92 — Moors, 84, 573, 628 — Viscount, 726 Body, William, 587 Bohelland, 614 — mysterious tragedy at, 616-619 Bolennowe Hill, 692 Bolventro, 628 Bombay, 445, 460, 462 — governed by Keigwin, 479-487 — Castle, 480 Bomeny, 103 Bonaparte, Prince Louis Lucien, 242 Bonaventura, Thomasine, attractive widow, 113 — benefactress, 114-116 — goes to London, 110, 113 — shepherd girl, 109 Bond, Mr., 92 Bond, Thomas, 681 Bondé, 418 Bond Street, 320, 325, 385 Borlase, Dr. Bingham, 239, 676 — his account of the Logan, 18, 22 Borleau, 104 Boroughs, pocket, 518 Borrowdale, 559 Boscastle, 721

Boscawen, 130 — family, the, 500, 525, 554 Boscawen, Hugh, 706 Boscawen, Rev. A. C., 684 Bossenden Farm, 603, 607 Bossenden Wood, 608, 613 Bossewell, John, 554 Bossiney, 518 Boston, 53 Bosworgy, 341 Botany Bay, 319 — settlement at, 559-564 Botathan, 74, 81, 82, 701 Botreux Castle, 721 Botusfleming, 12 Boughton-under-Blean, 603, 606, 609, 612 Boulogne, 332 Bouverie, Hon. Philip, 649 Bouverie, Sir Jacob, 649 Bovey Heathfield, geological features of, 7 Bovey Tracey, 226 Bow, Rev. Dr., 613 Bow Street, 380, 381 Bowden, Elizabeth, 138 Boyer, Nicholas, Mayor of Bodmin, executed, 589, 590 Boyne, burnt, 258, 259 Bracegirdle, Mrs., 299, 300 — and Capt. Hill, 300-4 Braddock Down, 206 Braddon family, arms of, 107 Braddon, Captain William, 96 Braddon, Laurence, 96, 107 — attacks Bishop Burnet, 106 — Author of Enquiry, 104, 106 — imprisoned and tried, 99, 100, 102 — reports murder of Essex, 98-103 Bradshaw, Sir Thomas, 40 Bradstone, 228 Braganza, 479 Brandon, 386 Bray, Charity, 593 Bray, C., 699, note Bray, Mrs., on Bothathan ghost, 72 — on Polperro, 247 Breage, 342, 370, 580, 585 Breage Churchtown, 478 Brember, Sir Nicholas, 435 Brendon & Son, 578 Brent Eleigh, 556 Brentford, 318 Brenton,

Captain, 259 Brereton, Major, 162 Brest, 60, 259, 477 Brian, Sir Hussey, 603 Bribery at Elections, 518-530 Bridgerule, 108, 226 Bridges, Admiral Sir G., 377 Bridgwater, 36 Brief Relation of State Affairs, 403 Brighton, 387 Bristol, 37, 281, 282, 439, 670, 676 Bristol, Earl of, 376 Britannia, 405 British Association, the, 8, 87 British Family Antiquity, 154, 168 British and Foreign Institute, 465 British Museum, 613, 680 Brixham, 8 — geological features of, 7 Broad Sound, 644 Brompton Crescent, 382, 383 Bronnaker, Lord, 552 Brook, Sir Arthur, 714 Brooke, Benjamin, 53 Broom Hill, 182 "Brown Bear, The," 381 Brown, Dr. Robert, 708, 715 Brown, John, 391, 392 Brown, Mrs., 580 Brown Willy, 84, 85, 109 Browne, Hamilton, 446 Browne, Mrs., 301, 303 Browne, Sir Richard, 545 Bruce, Eliza, 90 Bruce, Haliday, 90 Brulgruddery, Mrs., 468, 469 Brunel's bridge, Saltash, 663 Brunswick, H.M.S., 667 Brunton, 468 Bryant, John Davy, volunteers for Terra del Fuego, 233 — dies of hardships, 236 Brydges, Captain, 462 Buchanan, Robert, 209 Buckhurst, Lord, 305 Buckingham, Christopher, 455 Buckingham family, the, 455 Buckingham, George, 665 note Buckingham, James, 465 Buckingham, James Silk, a youthful

prisoner, in love, 458 — character of, 455, 464 — explores in Egypt, 460 — founds British and Foreign Institute, 465 — in conflict with East India Company, 460-5 — a linguist, 458, 462 — literary ventures of, 463, 464 — quells corn riot, 457 — suffers for his love of freedom, 462, 463 — suggests Suez Canal, 459 — to India in disguise, 462 Buckingham, Leicester F. Y., 465 Buckingham, Earl of, 170, 172, 173, 524, 552, 721 Bude, 115, 182, 204, 205 Bude Haven, 570 Bude light, 202 Budget of Paradoxes, 90 Buggs, Sir Anthony, 500 Bull, Rev. G. B., 695 Buller, Charles, 189 Buller family, 86 Buller, Mr., 652 Bulwer, Henry Lytton, 448 Bunsby, Richard, 113 Burton, Joe, 627 Burton, John, falls over the stile, 631 — his Curiosity Shop, 633 — invests in alligators, 632 — rudeness of, 634 — rules for living, 635 — spends Christmas Eve at Jamaica Inn, 627-31 — Whiteley in curiosities, 632 — writes to the King, 634 Burton, John, jun., 636 Burton, Joseph, 627 Burton, William, 419, 420 Burton's Stile, 631 Burdett, Sir Francis, 253 Burge, Arthur, 219 Burke, Sir Bernard, 299 Burley, Sir Simon, 434 Burlorn, 117, 119, 120, 121 Burnard, Mr., 87 Burnard, George, 186 Burnard, Nevil Northey, on tramp, 190 —

success in London, 188 — works in slate, 186, 187 Burnet, Bishop, 41, 45, 53, 211, 214, 216, 218, 543 — on death of Essex, 106 — on the Duke of Hamilton, 310 — on Lord Mohun, 308 — on Lord Roberts, 726 — on nonjurors, 213 Burns, Robert, 695, 699 Burrow, Bessie, 470, 473 Buryan, 329, 341 Bury S. Edmunds, 140 Bussy, 160, 162 Butler, Samuel, 44 Butt's Head Mill, 666 Byng, Sir George, 640 Byron, Captain, 340 Byron, Lord, and Trelawny, 446, 452 Cadiz, 123, 131, 259, 503 Cadogan, Lord, 15 Cadwalader, 288 Caermarthen, Lord, 305 Cailland, General, 164 Cairo, 459 Caius Coll. Cam., 73 Cake House, 314, 316 Calais, 296 Calamy, 41, 214 Calamy on Jane, 220 Calcutta, 161, 463 Calcutta Mirror, 463 Calendar of Victory, 626 Calendar State Papers, 721 California, 233 Call family, the, 154, 156, 167 — arms of, 155, 167 Call, John, 157 Call, Sarah, 157 Call, Sir John, 154, 157, 166 — benefacts his sister, 165 — his campaign in India, 158-165 — M.P. for Callington, 167 Call, Sir W. G. M., 167 Call, William Berkeley, 167 Call, William Pratt, 167 Callinack, Mrs., see Kelynack Callington, 155, 167, 171, 518 Callywith, 627 Calvin, 724 Calvinists v. Arminians, 357 Camborne, 364, 692, 664, 699 Camborne, Vean

Mine, 581 Cambria, 492, 494 Cambridge, 27, 73, 85, 87, 89, 90, 228, 231, 516, 556 Cambridge, Duke of, 465 Camden, 405 Camden, Lord, 409 Camelford, 83, 424-426, 518 Camelford, first Baron, 319 Camelford, last Lord, acquitted, quits Navy, 322 — birth and education of, 319 — duel with Mr. Best, 324-327 — embroiled in town, 323, 324 — his crazy scheme of assassination, 322 — on the Guardian, 319 — shoots Peterson, 321 — under arrest, 320, 321 Camisards, 639 Campbell, General, 275 Candish, Lord, 298 Cann, Abraham, wrestles with Polkinghorne, 55 Cann Wood, 148 Cannington, 407 "Canterburiensis," on John N. Tom, 597, 613 Canterbury, 31, 599, 602, 609, 612, 613 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 211, 215, 291, 437 Canterbury Bell, 607 Cape Finisterre, 707 Cape Horn, 234 Cape of Good Hope, 124, 320, 409, 459, 479, 560 Cape Padrone, 411 Cape Spartel, 714 Cape S. Vincent, battle of, 259, 260 Cape Verde Is., 410 Capell, Lord, 100 Capern, Edward, 699 Capgrave, 557 Cap'n Toby, see Tobias Martin Capuchin, The, 295 Caradon, 84 Caran Yellatu, 415 Carbura, 554 Carclew, 86, 187, 344, 345 Cardinham, 280 Carew, 109, 114 Carew, Mr., 243 Carew, Thomas, 546 Carew, 554, 652 — on tin-mining, 720 — on trees in

Cornwall, 719 Carfax, 207 Cargreen, 730 Carhayes, 395 Carlisle, 89 Carlisle, Sir Anthony, 203 Carlyle, Thomas, 189 Carlyon, C., 122, 229 Carlyon, Dr. Clement, 427 Carmichael, Lord, 648 Carnan Adit, 343 Carnanton, 329, 340, 341 Carnwark, Lord, 15 Carpenter, General, 13 Carpenter, William, 366 Carrick Gladden, 172 Carrick Roads, 456 Carter, Agnes, 471 Carter, Betsy, 478 Carter, Charles, 476, 478 Carter family, the, 471 Carter, Francis, 471 Carter, Frank, 478 Carter, Henry, imprisoned in France, 474, 477 — the biter bit, 474 — a pious smuggler, 471, 473, 477 Carter, John, 275 — a daring smuggler, 471, 472 — imprisoned at Dinan, 474 — King of Prussia, 471, 478 Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez, 274 Casland, 133 Castell-an-Dinas, 682, 683 Castile, 434 Castle Horneck, 240 Castle, Mr., 589 Castlemaine, Lady, 550 Catalonia, 267 Catenary Curve, 678 Cathayes, 395 "Cat Harris," 287 Catherine of Braganza, 479 Catt, George, 610 Caulfield, James, 48, 369 Cawsand, 354, 474, 476 Cecil, James, 275 Cecil, Lord, 32 Cecil Street, 276 Cephalonia, 446, 448 Ceriziers, 126, 128 Cevennes, 639 Chacewater, 54 Challenger, 505 Challis, Professor,