Cornish Characters and Strange Events

Now by Carew Davies Gilbert, Esq., of Trelisseck.

23

It came to her by bequest of her godmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Noles, who had acquired a fortune by business at Chiandower.

24

Created Baronet 3rd May, 1774.

25

Samuel Drew says at the age of five, but this was a slip of his pen or a mistake of the printer; his mother died in 1774.

26

John Rivers and James Howes were sheriffs.

27

See for the above and more on the subject of "Pirate Trelawny" an article by T. C. Down in the Nineteenth Century, May, 1907.

28

The Old Playgoer, 1854, pp. 82-4.

29

J. B. Cornish in the Cornish Magazine, 1898, p. 121.

30

The Company levied a duty of half a dollar upon all ships anchoring in the harbour, one rupee a year on each fishing-boat, and the same on every ship. Lastly, with what seems unparalleled meanness, they ordered that only half of the native labourers' wages should be paid in coin, the other half in rice valued "at the Company's price," which would give ten per cent clear profit after all expenses had been defrayed.

31

Baptized at Probus 29th May, 1758.

32

Authorities for his life: Ormsby, The Household Books of Lord William Howard, Surtees Soc., 1878, pp. 506 et seq.; Gildew's Biographical Dictionary of English Catholics; Jesuits in Conflict, 1873, p. 206; the Douay Diaries, ed. Knox; Boase and Courtney's Bibliographia Cornubiensis; Notes and Queries, 5th series, IV, 402-4 (1875); Morris, Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, 1st series, 1872, p. 95, 2nd series, 1875, pp. 33, 79-80; Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests, p. 32; Dict. of National Biography, State Papers, etc.; an admirable and exhaustive Life in MS. by Rev. E. Nolan, Trinity College, Cambridge, in the University Library, Cambridge.

33

A corner of the letter is torn off, but it is easy to supply the missing portions of the words and sentences.

34

He calls Daubuz a Jew. The first Daubuz to settle at Truro was a Moses. But the family claims Huguenot extraction.

35

The murderer was William Kilter, priest of S. Keverne, and he killed William Body, the lessee of the archdeaconry of Cornwall, in Helston Church as he was engaged in smashing the images, 5th April, 1548. For this he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, 7th July, 1548.

36

No such a vicar was in Gluvias or is known to have been in Cornwall in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

37

The History of the Reign of Queen Anne, 1708, p. 242.

38

Cooke (J. H.), The Shipwreck of Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Gloucester, 1883. For the account of the confession of the woman he refers to an original letter of the second Lord Romney to Captain Locker, now in the possession of the Earl of Romney.

39

Her mother was married three times – first to Warring, second to Vosper, third to Geo. Buckingham.

40

Od. I, 1; II, 20.

41

These were Lord Lyttleton, G. Dawson, and C. Bray.