“LUSTY” STUCLEY
If Devonshire has turned out a number, and a very considerable number, of gallant and…
LITTLE JOE GANDER
“There’s no good in him,” said his stepmother, “not a mossul!” With these words she…
LIEUTENANT PHILIP G. KING
The Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy, near the close of 1786, advertised for a certain…
LIEUTENANT JOHN HAWKEY
Joseph Hawkey, of Liskeard, and his wife Amye, daughter of the Rev. John Lyne, had…
LIEUTENANT GOLDSMITH AND THE LOGAN ROCK
In the parish of S. Levan is a promontory running out into the sea, once…
LAURENCE BRADDON
Laurence Braddon, second son of Captain William Braddon, of Treworgy, in S. Gennys, was called…
LADY HOWARD
The Earl of Northumberland had shown himself solicitous for the welfare of the soul of…
JOSEPH PITTS
Joseph Pitts, of Exeter, was the son of John Pitts of that city. When aged…
JONATHAN SIMPSON, HIGHWAYMAN
This great rascal was born at Launceston in 1654 of respectable parents, and his father,…
JONATHAN MARTIN,
THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER.[1] Jonathan Martin was not a native of Yorkshire, but as…