The Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy, near the close of 1786, advertised for a certain…

Joseph Hawkey, of Liskeard, and his wife Amye, daughter of the Rev. John Lyne, had…

Laurence Braddon, second son of Captain William Braddon, of Treworgy, in S. Gennys, was called…

alias SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY, K.M. This strange man was the son of William Tom, landlord…

In August, 1853, appeared the following account in the Gentleman’s Magazi-ne:— “An eccentric old gentleman…

“On the quiet evening of October 14th, 1820, in a straw-thatched, boulder-built cottage, with bare…

Thomas Adams was a small tenant farmer in the parish of Laneast, at Lidcott, renting…

There is no thriving on ill-gotten goods, says the proverb, and this was exemplified in…

Joseph Burton, of Stockport, Lancashire, came, for what reason is unknown, to Cornwall in 1830,…

Mr. S. C. Hall, writing after the death of J. S. Buckingham, thus expressed his…