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"Old Cornwall Journal" Index to Volume 3

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Contributions in Cornish   -   Cures   -  CustomsCornish Language 

Cornish Language in Songs  -  Dialect & Brevities   - Fishing -  Games

Gorsedd Mining - Old Cornwall Societies  - Persons - Pikies - Places - 

Poetry - Sayings - Smuggling - Songs - Supertitions

Witchcraft Words & Phrases

Index to Illustrations

Trevanion Culverhay,

facing p.1

H. J. Daniel "The Cornish Poet",

p.26

The Old Road,

facing p.45

Merchant's Marks,

p.51

Bodwen Cross,

p.84

Youlstone Cross

facing p.133

Holy Well of All Hallows,

facing p.177

Three Holes Cross, Egloshayle,

facing p.221

Middle Moor Cross,

facing p.237

Treverah Cross, St. Mabyn,

facing p.265

Site of Tywardreath Priory,

facing p.311

Cornwall's Eastern Frontier,

facing p.399

Wendron Cross,

facing p.428

Trevethoe, Cross, Lelant

facing p.428

Ancient Woodland Map,

p.522

 

Index to Contributors

Author Title Page Number

ANDREW C. K. C. 

A Privateer's Act of Parliament,

p.379

ANDREW C. K. C. 

Craddock Moor Stone Circle,

p.74

ANDREW C. K. C. 

Further Note on Culverhouses,

p.2

ANDREW C. K. C. 

Kegilliack, A Cornish War Prison,

p.30

ANDREW C. K. C. 

Three Holes Cross, Egloshayle,

p.221

ANDREW C. K. C. 

Trefrize and the Holy Well of All Hallows,

p.177

ATCHLEY, M .H. N. Cuthbert,

Report on Preservation Works done by O.C. Societies,

p.128

ATCHLEY, M .H. N. Cuthbert,

"The Derby Ram" Folk-song,

p.16

BLEWETT, W.,

Yes-if,

p.231

BORLASE, W.,

Some Cornish Wild Flowers,

p.81

BRIAN, E.,

A Misjudged Interview,

p.260

BRIAN, E.,

Overheard in a Cornish Town,

p.244

BROOKE, M. M. 

Merlin the Bard,

p.407

CHARKE, W. J. 

Furze-Fed,

p.401

CLEACE, T. W.,

Trevanion "Culverhay,"

p.1

COWLS, P.

A Pig Aboard Ship,

p.468

COWLS, P.

A Sharpe Servant,

p.376

COWLS, P.

Cap'n Joe's Travels,

p.417

COWLS, P.

Stories From Cellars and Lofts,

pp. 287, 322

COWLS, P.

Wisdom from Cap'n Billy

p.416

CROWLE, A. O.,

Crantock Games,

p.224

DOBLE CANON G. H. 

Dedication to Celtic Saints in Normandy,

p.275

DOBLE CANON G. H. 

Saint Wencu,

4, p.174

DOBLE CANON G. H. 

The History of the Relics of Sait Piran At Perranzabulo,

p.501

DUGDALE, H. Elizabeth,

An Old Penzance Personality,

p.261

DUNN, M.,

Men of Mevagissy,

pp.293, 325

ELLIS, G. E. 

Discovery of a Cross at St. Mabyn,

p.265

ELLIS, G. E. 

Middle Moor Cross,

p.237

ELLIS, G. E. 

Two Ancient Crosses recently found in West Cornwall,

p.429

ELLIS, G. E. 

Youlstone Cross,

p.147

EVA, CHARLES A,

Merchant's Marks

p.52

EVA, CHARLES A,

Panoramas and Prints,

p.368

GEEN, MARGARET,

St Ives Fishing Industry,

p.370

GEEN, S.,

The Tally-o

p.467

GLUBB, A. de CASTRO,

Bramble Cradles

p.336

GROSER, E. WINIFRED,

The Erection of Tree Holes Cross 1939,

p.304

HAMILTON, JANET,

A Cornish Ballard,

p.33

HARPUR, CALDWELL,

Dialect,

p.44

HARPUR, CALDWELL,

Note on "One and All" and periwig,

p.88

HOBLYN, W. TREFFRY,

A Genealogical Note,

p.496

HOBLYN, W. TREFFRY,

Historical Notes,

p.391

HODGE, G. R.

Remembered Wraiths and Tokens,

p.413

HODGE, JAMES H.

Records and Further Records

pp.133, 209, 248, 267.

HOOPER, E. G. RETALLACK,

Our Own University,

p.175

HOOPER, J. E. 

Doctor Borlase and the Giant's Graves,

p.449

HOOPER, J. E. 

The Building of Star Castle: Stella Maria,

pp.55, 100

HOOPER, J. E. 

The Grenfell Family,

p.433

HOOPER, J. E. 

The Mayor's Diary: Penzance in 1816

p.362

HORNBLOWER, G. D. 

The Religious Base of our Magaliths,

p.506

HUNKIN, GLADYS 

Church Records,

p.361

HUNKIN, GLADYS 

Deserted Stamps,

p.513

HUNKIN, GLADYS 

Lost Speech,

p. 435

JAMES, C, C,

Charms,

p.351

JAMES, C, C,

Cornish Parish Feasts,

p.471

JAMES, C, C,

Wembalo,

p.521

JAMES, MAY STANLEY,

Cornish Bulls,

p.292

JAMES, MAY STANLEY,

Life in Old Camborne,

p.443

JENNINGS, MYRA E.

Over Grey Seas

p.127

JENNINGS, MYRA E.

The Song of the Red-Herring,

p.245

JERRAM, S.

Feast Monday Meet,

p.274

JOHNS, F. W.

Baldhu,

2, p.17

JOHNS, S. W. 

A Friend of Elia,

p.492

JOHNS, S. W. 

A Literary Note,

p.456

JOHNS, S. W. 

John Wesley and Dr. borlase,

p.402

JOHNS, S. W. 

John Wesley and Gwennap Pit,

p.381

KELYNACK, J.

Dialect Words and Phrases,

p.218

KELYNACK, J.

Honesty,

p.412

KELYNACK, J.

Seen and Heard,

p.353

KELYNACK, J.

The Fair,

p.229

KELYNACK, J.

The Monkey in the Chimney,

p.437

KEMPTHORNE, LT.-COL. G. A.

Cornwall and the General Levy,

p.5

KEMPTHORNE, LT.-COL. G. A.

Notes on the Collegiate Churches of Cornwall,

p.89

KEMPTHORNE, LT.-COL. G. A.

Remains of St Andrew's Priory, Tywardreath,

p.311

KEMPTHORNE, LT.-COL. G. A.

The Bishop's Visitation at S. Buryan, 1336,

p.160

LAITY, JAS.

H. J. Daniel, "The Cornish Poet,"

p.27

LAKE, F.

On Flints,

p.166

MACDOWELL, F. J. B. 

Christian Names in Cornwall,

p.309

MATHEWS GILBERT,

Cornwall,

p.330

MURRISH, C. S. 

A Character,

p.77

MURRISH, C. S. 

Cock versus Hawke,

p.208

MURRISH, C. S. 

Dry Allowance put to Wet Purposes,

p.167

MURRISH, C. S. 

Fishy Tales from St. Ives,

p.32

MURRISH, C. S. 

Keen Observations,

p.303

MURRISH, C. S. 

Scott and "Celtic Spirit,"

p.476

MURRISH, C. S. 

Wooden Ships and Iron Men,

p.35

NANCE, R. MORTON,

A Primitive Three-legged Stool,

p.494

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Cornish Comparisons,

p.520

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Cornish Names of the Seal,

p.85

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Cornish Proverbial Sayings,

p.486

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Dr. Borlase and Cornish,

p.348

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Hints for Place-Name Study,

pp.257, 396, 482

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Hoofprint Legends,

p.65

NANCE, R. MORTON,

New Light on Cornish,

p.426

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Some Old Cornish Weirs,

p.225

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Tame Furze,

pp.455, 508

NANCE, R. MORTON,

The Frog and the Mouse,

p.195

NANCE, R. MORTON,

The Kitareen,

p.349

NANCE, R. MORTON,

The Pilchard Rhyme

pp.169, 220

NANCE, R. MORTON,

To Neighbour Nicholas Pentreath, 

p.264

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Two old Christmas Beliefs,

p.529

NANCE, R. MORTON,

William Bodener's Letter,

p.306
 Notes On    

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Cornish and Breton,

p.165

NANCE, R. MORTON,

"Cornish Simplified",

p.256

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Up in a Cold Ivy-tree,

p.206
 In Cornish

 

 

NANCE, R. MORTON

An Besont Tarosvanus,

p.142

NANCE, R. MORTON,

An Dullores,

p.337

NANCE, R. MORTON,

An Lowarn,

p.421

NANCE, R. MORTON,

An Marner Du,

p.388

NANCE, R. MORTON,

An Try Lavar,

p.111

NANCE, R. MORTON,

An Vugh hy Holon Trogh,

p.299

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Benen, Worth hep Nam,

p.464

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Can Kernow Dyvres,

p.360

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Cas ha Caradewder,

p.518

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Honna drs Oll a-garaf,

p.6

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Hycca ha Davy,

p.343

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Jowan Bras ha Jowan Byghan,

p.200

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Nyns-us Scapya an Pyth a-res Hapya,

p.66

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Omdowl Bras Coryn ha Goemagot,

p.423

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Sa, Sa ! Gas hy dhe Wandra !

p.300

NANCE, R. MORTON,

Skyans us Pernys yu an Gwella Skyans oll,

p.240

NOALL, J. R.

The Siege of the "Labour in Vain,"

p.302

ORCHARD, L. C. J.

A Liverpool Venture,

p.50

ORCHARD, L. C. J. 

Some Notes on the Cornish Language in the Fourteenth Century, 

p.79

PASCOE, STANLEY,

An ancient riddle,

p.478

PASCOE, STANLEY,

Some Cornish Likes,

p.457

PELLEW VYVYAN,

Western Whispers,

p.168

PENROSE JOHN,

The "Goldings" in St. Just,

p.164

PICKEN, W. M. M. 

Caradon Lyer in the Parish of Linkinhorne,

p.59

POOL, ANNE

Parish registers,

p.355

POOL, ANNE

St. Uny Lelant Churchwardens Accounts,

p.252

POOL, ANNE

Some Notes on the Church of St. Eny, Lelant,

p.106

POOL, ANNE

The Relief of the Poor in the 18th century,

p.487

POOL, ANNE

The Song of the Red Herring,

p.431

POUNDS, N. J. G. 

Cornwall's Eastern Frontier,

p.399

POUNDS, N. J. G. 

The ancient Woodland of Cornwall,

p.523

POUNDS, N. J. G. 

The Identification of Domesday Manors of Cornwall,

p.458

REES, EDGAR A.

An Ill-wished Net,

p.385

REES, EDGAR A.

A Fisherwomen's Festival,

p.354

ROGERS, LILY

Retchard John and the Piskies,

p.193

ROGERS, LILY

"William Jaames's" Court-ship,

p.37

ROGERS, M. W.

Brewyon,

p.452

ROGERS, M. W.

Dubbs and Dubborns,

p.239

ROGERS, M. W.

Weather Rhymes,

p.354

ROWE, ASHLEY

An Old Milestone,

p.217

ROWE, ASHLEY

Bodwen Cross,

p.84

ROWE, ASHLEY

Cornish-Breton Demonstration,

p.514

ROWE, ASHLEY

Cornish Crosses,

p.21

ROWE, ASHLEY

Re-erection of Polmennor Cross,

p.163

ROWE, ASHLEY

The Snuff Box,

p.140

ROWE, ASHLEY

The Third Piper,

p.256

SPOONER, BARBARA C.

An Old Remedy,

p.375

SPOONER, BARBARA C.

"Lampayne"

p.29

SPOONER, BARBARA C.

"Proper Stranger Cap'n Harry!

p.63

STEPHENS, F. J. 

A Disasterous Happening,

p.392

STEPHENS, F. J. 

Adits and Adit-Drivers,

pp.232, 283

STEPHENS, F. J. 

Perran Bay,

p.19

STEPHENS, F. J. 

Romance of Mining,

pp.123, 148, 185

STEPHENS, F. J. 

Some Old Cornish Mine Adventurers,

pp.483, 479, 497

STEPHENS, F. J. 

Ulrich Fosse at Perranporth,

p.338

STEPHENS, WILLIAM J.

Inscribed Stone at Indian Queens,

p.247

SUTTON, REV. G. P. C.

Egloshayle, Some Notes on the History of the Church and Parish,

pp.45, 117, 174

WALLACE, BESSIE,

All Silent in the Night,

p.436

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Flower Lore,

p.246

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Old-Fashioned Fare,

p.260

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Old Man Dubbin Deed,

p.442

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Open-Air Singing,

p.105

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Pisky Pranks,

p.342

WALLACE, BESSIE,

The Barley-Bread Highway-men,

p.453

WALLACE, BESSIE,

The Gooseberry's Prickles,

p.491

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Trying For Sweethearts,

p.395

WALLACE, BESSIE,

Up in the Cold Ivy-tree,

p,205

WATSON, W. D.

Heavenly Voices,

p.305

WATSON, W. D.

The Old Road,

p.64

WHITE, G.

Probus Fairs,

p.282

WHITE, G.

Probus Parish Customs,

p.333

 Initials Only

 

 

R. H. R. 

Old Cornwall and the Camera,

p.192

T.

Christmas on the Moor,

p.159

 

Index to Book Reviews

Book Reviews Page number

A Cornish Childhood, (A. L. Rowse)

p.531

Bewnans Alysaryn, A Cornish Play, (Peggy Pollard)

p.421

Cornish Simplified, 

p.256

Cornish Tin, (Stanley A. Opie)

p.531

History of Flushing, (H. C. Coleman)

p.348

New Cornish-English Dictionary,

p.116

Say it in Cornish,

p.40

The Land of Britain, (Land Utilisation Survey): Cornwall,

p.420

This World's Bliss, (Anne Treneer)

p.531

Tristan, ( Hannah Close)

p.347

Tudor Cornwall, (A. L. Rowse)

p.420

 

Cornish Language

A Liverpool Venture,

p.50

And Breton,

p.165

Charles 1st's Letter of 1643 in,

p.321

Comparisons,

p.520

Dr. Borlase and the,

p.348

Gwavas MSS, Extracts from,

p.264

In Fourteenth Century,

p.79

"Jowan Chy-an-Horth," Original Spelling of,

p.219

New Light on,

p.426

Pilchard Rhyme, The,

pp.169, 220

To Neighbour Nicholas Pentreath,

p.264

William Bodener's Letter,

p.306

 

Cornish Language, Songs in

An Dullores,

p.337

An Lowarn,

p.421

An Vugh hy Holon Trogh,

p.299

Can Kernow Dyvres,

p.360

 

Contributions in Cornish ( Stories, etc.,)

Title  

An Besont Tarosvanus,

p.142

An Marner Du,

p.388

An Try Lavar,

p.111

An Varf,

p.22

Benen Worth hep Nam, 

p.464

Cas ha Caradewder,

p.518

Hycca ha Davy,

p.343

Jowan bras ha Jowan Byghan,

p.200

Nyns-us Scapya an Pyth a-res Hapya,

p.66

Omdowl Bras Coryn ha Goemagot,

p.422

Sa, Sa ! Gas hy dhe Wandra !

p.300

Skyans us Pernys yu an Gwella Skyans oll,

p.240

  

Dialect & Brevities

Title Page Numbers

Dialect,

p.44

Words and Phrases,

p.218

The Song of the Red-Herring,

pp.245, 431

Cap'n Joe's Travels,

p.417

Cock verses Hawk,

p.208

Furze-Fed,

p.401

Honesty,

p.412

Jinny Jinkins, Conversationalist,

p.130

Keen Observation,

p.303

Misjudged Interview, A.

p.260

Overheard in a Cornish Town,

p.244

Pig Aboard Ship, A.

p.468

Raffle, the

p.199

Retchard John and the Piskies,

p.193

Sharp Servant,

p.376

William Jaames's Courtship,

p.37

Wisdom From Cap'n Billy,

p.416
Verse in Dialect  

Counting the Fish,

p.76

The Tally-o

p.467

 

Fishing

An Ill Wished Net,

p.385

Dry Allowance put to Wet Purpose,

p.167

Herring Song, The

p.470

Pilchard Rhyme, The

pp.169, 220

St. Ives Industry,

p.370

 

Games

At Crantock,

p.224

 

Gorsedd

Brittany 1938, Cornish delegation

p.157

Prize Essay,

p.331

Various Notices,

pp.34, 73, 110, 156, 184, 228, 245, 309, 352, 287, 419, 465, 509

 

Mining

Caradon Lyer,

p.59

Disastrous Happening, A

p.392

Open-Air Singing,

p.105

Proper Stranger, Cap'n Harry!

 

Romance of,

pp.123, 148, 185

Some Old Adventures,

pp.438, 479, 497

Ulrich Fosse at Perranporth,

338

 

Old Cornwall Societies

Title Page Number

Bodmin,

p.237

Camborne,

pp.163, 217

Falmouth,

pp.192, 432

Helston,

p.432

Liskeard,

pp.263, 432

Looe,

p.432

Medway Towns,

p.251

Newquay,

pp.128, 129, 247

Penzance,

p.432

Redruth,

p.432

St. Austell,

p.129

St. Ives,

pp.251, 432

Truro,

p.432

Wadebridge,

pp.221, 304

Federation,

pp.128, 350, 432

And the Camera,

p.192

Bookstall,

p.141

In California,

p.129

 

Persons

Name

Page Number

Bodener, William

p.306

Borlase, Dr. William

pp.402, 449

Carew Richard,

p.496

Daniel, H. J.  ("the Cornish Poet")

p.27

Fosse, Ulrich,

p.338

Hirst, Lt. Col. F. C. 

p.132

Hodge, James H.

p.267

le Grice, Charles

p.492

Rowe, Dr. Joseph Hambley ("Tolzethan")

p.36

Scott, Sir Walter,

p.476

Smith, Rev. George Charles,

p.261

Wesley, John

pp.136, 381, 402

Woolf, Mrs. Virginia

p.456

 

Piskies

Pisky Pranks,

p.342

Prize Essay,

p.331

 

Places

Place Name Study, Hints for,

pp.257, 396, 482

Bodwen Cross,

p.84

Bude, Bramble cradles,

p.336

Camborne, Life in Old,

p.443

Camborne, Open Air Singing,

p.105

Camborne, Yes-If,

p.231

Chywoon,

p.64

Craddock Moor, Stone Circle,

p.74

Crantock, Collegiate Church,

pp.91, 94, 97

Crantock, Games,

p.224

Egloshayle, Church and Parish,

pp.45, 117

Egloshayle, Three Holes Cross,

p.221

Endellion, Prebends,

p.93

Glasney, Collegiate Church,

pp.92, 97

Gwennap, Folk Song,

p.521

Gwennap, John Wesley and,

p.381

Indian Queens, Inscribed Stone,

p.247

Kegilliack, War Prison,

p.30

Lelant, Church of St. Euny,

p.106

Lelant, Churchwardens Accounts,

p.252

Lelant, Trevethoe Cross,

p.430

Linkinhorne, Caradon Lyer,

p.59

Ludgvan, Parish Registers,

p.355

Ludgvan, Relief of Poor in 18th Century,

p.487

Mevagissey,

p.135

Mevagissey, Men of,

pp.293, 325

Mousehols, Carol Story,

p.305

Newlyn West, 

p.385

North Hill,

p.251

Penzance, Fisherwomen's Festival,

p.354

Penzance, Rev. George Charles Smith,

p.261

Perran Bay, Incident of the Past,

p.19

Perranporth, Smelting Works,

p.338

Perranzabulo, Relics of St. Piran,

p.501

Probus, Collegiate Church,

pp.91, 97

Probus, Fairs,

p.282

Probus, Parish Customs,

p.333

Roseworthy,

p.217

St. Buryan, Bishop's Visitation 1336,

p.160

St. Buryan, Collegiate Church,

pp.90, 95

St. Columb Major, Collegiate Church,

p.93

St. Ives,

pp.137, 167, 209, 248, 267

St. Ives, Fishing Industry,

p.370

St. Ives, Fishy Tales from,

p.32

St, Ives, "Labour in Vain," The,

p.302

St. Ives, Wooden Ships and Iron Men,

p.35

St. Just, "Goldings" in

p.164

St. Mabyn, Cross,

p.265

St. Michael's Penkevil, Collegiate Church,

p.92

Scilly Isles, Giant's Graves,

p.449

Scilly Isles, Star Castle,

pp.55, 100

Trefrize,

p.177

Trevanion, Culverhay,

p.1

Tywardreath, Remaind of St. Andrew's Priory,

p.311

Wadebridge, Three Hole Cross,

p.304

Washaway, Cross,

p.72

Wendron, Ancient Cross Discovered,

p.429

Wolf Lighthouse,

p.137

Youlstone, Cross,

p.147

Zennor,

p.134

 

Poetry
Title Page Number

Church Records,

p.361

Cornwall,

p.330

Deserted Stamps,

p.513

Feast Monday meet,

p.274

Lost Speech,

p.453

Over Grey Seas,

p.127

The "Goldings" in St Just,

p.164

Western Whispers,

p.168

Willow-Pattern Rhyme Variant,

p.292

Yes-If,

p.231

 

Sayings

Sayings,

pp.138, 248, 251, 353

Comparisons,

p.520

Likes,

p.457

Proverbial,

p.486

 

Smuggling

All Silent in the Night,

p.436

 

Songs

The Derby Ram,

p.16

The Fox and goose Song,

p.510

 

Superstitions

Charming,

p.216

Dreams,

p.217

Good and Bad Luck,

pp.210, 213

Marriage,

p.214

 

Witchcraft

An Ill-Wished Net,

p.385

 

Words

Calathumpian,

p.218

Cricket,

p.218

Custis,

p.218

Dubbs and Dubborns,

p.239

Kitareen,

p.349

Leerywhip,

p.218

Malkin,

p.218

No, the tannabye!

p.218

One and All,

p.88

Periwig,

p.88

Thumble-bean,

p.218

 

 

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