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"Old Cornwall"

Index to Volume 7

(Spring 1967 - Autumn 1973)

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Index to Illustrations   -   Index to Contributors   -   Index to Book Reviews   -   

Contributions in Cornish   -   Cornish Crosses   -   Cornish Language 

Cornish Reminiscences   -   Cornish Saints   -   Dialect & Brevities   -  Editorials 

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Places   -   Poetry   -   Superstitions   -   Words

Index to Illustrations

Boundary Stone Mark

Page 91

Changeling, the

47

Colan Cross, as first noted,

557

Colan Cross Dedication,

519

Cornish Cross at Eastbourne

402

Cross Bases in St. Breward Churchtown, near King Arthur's Hall,

263

Cross Bases Re-discovered,

263

Dutch Log Timer, The

172

Efford Manor,

352

Herbert Lean,

221

Maps: Boundaries of the Parish of Phillack 

132

    "     Lanlivery Parish,

270

Mevagissey Harbour,

42

Mount, The

164

Old Lifeboat Slipway, St Ives,

326

Old Truro,

22

Pentille Castle,

96

John Rashleigh and his wife Alice,

117

Roskear Cross

330

Sein Boats at St. Ives,

147

St. Austell Ice House,

233

St. Piran Oratory before Enclosure,

397

Timber Bridge, Lawhitton,

499

Third Torpoint Ferry,

201

Unveiling of a Memorial Plaque, Stamford Hill 

449

 

Index to Contributors

Author Title Page Number

Arnold, E. P.

Helston National School 1863-1899,

466

Attwater, D.

Some Saints of Cornwall,

53

Beckerlegge, Mrs L. May

The Cornish Chaw or Chough,

454

Bennetto, W. M.

Celtic Numbers,

375

Blewett, Richard R

The Black Death in West & Mid Cornwall,

524

Blewett, Richard R

Lanlivery Parish - Additonal Notes,

358

Blewett, Richard R

On the way to the mount,

6

Blewett, Richard R

These things have Been, Rev. Richard Treffry and his diary 1802-1804.,

154, 215, 264

Budge, Ralph T.D., F.C.I.S.

The Budges of Linkinhorne,

405

CAR ALBANEK (L.R. Moir.

Spryrys An Scovarnak,

231

CAR ALBANEK (L.R. Moir.

Whethel Coth an cor Kernewek,

287, 336, 384, 432, 476, 520, 560.

Casley, John.

Morvah,

398

Cock, Stanley

An Amazing Rescue,

403

Coward, Edna Waters

Engine Christening Day Down to Mine.,

551

Coward, Edna Waters

West Cornwall Husbandman in the early 19th Century,

411

Curtis, Miss B.A. (compiled by)

The Cornwall Man Engine (Royal Polytechnic Society),

502

Evans, C.A.

St Aubyn of Clowance,

236

Evans, R. D. (Gwas Cadok)

Psalm 103,

129

Gregory, Nigel

A Saxon battle, a Cornish King,

284

Harris, lillian b.

A Pilgrimage,

546

Hawkridge, Miss C.

Recipes and Remedies,

244

Henderson, Mary and Joanna Penberton - Longman

Cross Bases Re-discovered,

556

Henderson, Mary and Joanna Penberton - Longman

A Missing Camborne Cross Found,

329

Higgans, John

The Boundary of the Parish of Phillack,

130

Higgans, John

A Study of the Population of the Parish of Phillack,

223

Higman, I. A.

Christmas of Yesteryears,

106

Hirst, Miss R.P.

Recordings,

327

Hodge, H. R.

Horse Gears and Threshing machines in Cornwall,

444

Hooper, E.G. Retalack

A Cornish Aphorism,

43

Hooper, E.G. Retalack

Tom Miners,

500

Hosier, F. Audrey

Boyton,

534

Hosier, F. Audrey

The County boundary,

90

Hosier, F. Audrey

Lawhitton,

360

Hosier, F. Audrey

Lawhitton - Note on the Timber Bridge,

499

Hosier, F. Audrey

Lezant,

207

Hosier, F. Audrey

More About Tillie,

95

Hosier, F. Audrey

Some Tamar Parishes, ctd.,

92

Hosier, F. Audrey

Stoke Climsland,

176

Hughes, G. J.

A Memorable Night,

111

Jenkin, A. K. Hamilton

Old Cornish Stories,

44

Long, P. R.

New Light on the Mystery Plays of Cornwall,

458

Longman, Joanne Pemberton

Cross Bases Rediscovered,

556

Longman, Joanne Pemberton

Missing Camborne Cross Found,

329

Longman, Joanne Pemberton

Two Cross Bases in St. Breward,

262

Martin, E. A.

The Couch Family of Glasney College, Penryn,

512

Martin, L.M.

The Monument at Poldhu, Cornwall,

451

McCormack, Elsie E., B.A.

The History of the Lyne-Glubb Family,

491

Michell, F. and Ashley Rowe.

The Arms of Cornwall,

26

Moir, L.R.

A Cornishman in Ireland,

184

Moir, L.R.

An 18th Century Dutchman's Log Timer,

173

Moir, L.R.

The Imperial Leper,

79

Moir, L.R.

Notes from the North,

474

Moir, L.R.

Old Truro,

23

Moir, L.R.

Portrait of a Dog,

112

Moir, L.R.

Windy Verdict,

109

Moir, Mrs. R. A.

Memories of Hingston Down,

238

Mordon see Nance, R.

 

 

Morris, W. A.

Gover Meneth,

30

Morris, W. A.

Tresnor a'n "Association"

174

Murrin, T. h.

Renting a Diary,

507

Nance, R (Mordon)

Carol Canoryon Nos,

11

Nance, R (Mordon)

What We Stand For,

293

Nicholl Thomas,

From a Redruth Journal,

517

Nicholls, Mrs. D.de L.

Lanlivery Parish - Farming and Estate in the 19th and early 20th Centuries,

269

Nicholls, Mrs. D.de L.

Lostwithiel,

261

Noall, Cyril

Account of the loss of an Algerine Corsair on the coast of Cornwall from Naval Chronicle 1807,

127

Noall, Cyril

A Cornish Club from Cornish Telegraph 20th April 1870,

430

Noall, Cyril

Witchcraft,

239

Oryer,

The Lynher River,

77

Pearson, Alan

William Pryce 1735 - 1790,

388

Phillips, Ruth M.

Redruth had a share in the Abolition of Slavery,

138

Pool. P.A.S.

Another Zennor Cross-Site,

80

Pool. P.A.S.

Ada Williams - an appreciation,

331

Pool. P.A.S.

The Cornish Language Board,

97

Pool. P.A.S.

Cornish Parishes in 1753, vi St Allen,

24

Preston, Thomas

A Cornish Tour - from the diary of Thomas Preston of Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk covering his tour through the West of England and Wales, taken in 1821,

481

Price, Oliver

Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,

196

Reed, Janie

A Local Landscape in Stithians Parish,

144

Rowe, Ashley and Michell, F.

The Arms of Cornwall,

26

Rowse, A. L.

Henry Trecarrell

437

Sheppard, P.A.

St. Austell Ice House,

232

Soulsby, I.N., B.A.

The County Through Welsh Eyes,

533

Stamp, B. Dudley

The Cornish Arundells,

350

Symons, W.M.

Herbert Lean,

220

Tangye, Michael

The Wesleyan Methodist Relief Fund for the Cornwall District 1879,

185

Tresidder, Hilda A.

Wreck of the Suevic,

419

Watkins, D. H.

Kernewek - some Fallacies and Discrepancies,

121

Welman, Maud

Kenegie Ghosts of the Past

31

Weston, A.J.

Dysky Kernewek in Loundres,

52

Whetter, J.C.A.

Anthony Grubbs of Penzance, Sufferer in the Parliamentary Cause,

160

Whetter, J.C.A.

Five Cornish Farmers in the 17th Century

81

Whetter, J.C.A.

Robert Hoblyn of Nanswhyden, Clerk 1658-1705

12

Whetter, J.C.A.

John and William Pearce - men with problems during the Commonwealth period,

250

Whetter, J.C.A.

John Rashleigh of Menabilly Esq. 1554 - 1642,

113

S.G.H. ( S.G. Howlett)

The Battle of Stratton,

450

L.E.L.

Bodmin's Old 'Lit',

333

L.E.L.

Troublesome Times,

356

M.M.R.

A Link with the Past,

220

W.M.S. (W.M.Symons)

Down 'Omers,

458

C.W.W.

Colan Cross,

518

 

Index to Book Reviews

Book Reviews Page number

Beyond the Blaze, (Dr. a. C. Todd)

73

Boatbuilders Study, A  (Percy Mitchell)

335

Bodmin Moor, (Mrs Pat Munn, B.A.

501

Boy and the Bucca, The (Burness Bunns)

559

Christian Antiquities of Camborne, (A.C. Thomas)

29

Canow Kernow (editor Inglis Gundry)

502

Cornish Anthology, ( A. L. Rowse)

191

Cornish Chronicle, (F.E. Halliday)

26

Cornish Dialect and Folksongs, ( Ralph Dunston,

502

Cornish Language, the Story of (Revised & Edited by E.G.R. Hooper)

235

Cornish Surnames - A Handbook of ( G. Pawley White),

558

Cornwall and its People, (A.E. Hamilton Jenkin),

374

Cornwall Remembered, (Mrs. Muriel Sara),

261

Cousin Jack Afloat and Ashore and Other Poems, John C. Barber)

261

Croft in Cornwall, A (Arthur Caddick)

142

Famous Men and Women of Cousin Birth, (I.D. Spreadbury),

558

Flushing, The Story of (Ursula Redwood),

75

Glimpse of Saltash, A (D.C. Vosper)

235

History of Truro Grammer and Cathedral School, The (R.E. Davison)

335

Industrial Archeology of Cornwall, The (A.C. Todd and Peter Laws),

558

Isles of Scilly, The (Robert Heath 1750),

75

Kernewek Bew, (Living Cornish(, (Richard Gendall),

501

Liskeard and District (W.H. Paynter),

373

Looe, A History and Guide (W.H. Paynter),

373

Marazion and St. Michael's Mount (Mrs. E. Coward),

387

Mevagissy (Dr. J.C.A. Whetter),

73

Mines and Miners of Cornwall Parts 14, 15, 16 (A.K. Hamilton Jenkin),

74, 260, 373

Mining Fields of the West  (Charles Thomas),

142

Mousehole (Mrs. Nellie Pender),

373

Omma Yn Kernow (Lodenek Press),

558

Palaeologus, Theodore (Canon J.H. Adams)

387

Pentreath, Dolly, and other Humorous Cornish Tales in Verse (Republished by F. Graham),

142

Penzance Library, The (Cyril Noall)

143

Perran Paths (Perranzabuloe O.C.S.),

501

Plymouth through Fire, With (Andre Savignon, translated and edited by S. E. Ouston),

144

Portreath, Some Chapters of its History (Michael Tangye),

143

Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy 1300 - 1500 (J. Hatcher)

374

Slate Figures of Cornwall, The (Mrs. Bizley),

195

St Just and Pendeen (Miss, E.M. Nicholas),

191

Trewavas - Tylu Kesunyes (Mrs. M. Mitchell - Fox),

559

Tristan and Iseult in Cornwall (E.M.R. Ditmus),

373

Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne du Maurier)

73

Woolf Arthur, the Cornish Engineer (T.R. Harris)

29

 

Contributions in Cornish

Carol Canoryon No.,

11

Dysky Kernewek in Loundres,

52

Gover Meneth,

30

Psalm 103,

129

Spyrys an Scovarnack,

231

Tresor an "Association",

174

Whethel Coth An Cor Kernewek,

287, 336, 384, 432, 476, 520, 560

 

Cornish Crosses

Another Zennor Cross-site

80

Colan Cross

518

Cross Bases Re-discovered,

556

Landulph Cross,

37

Missing Camborne Cross Found, A,

329

Nanjarrow Cross

556

Roskear Cross

475

Tregado - Cross from a Barn,

365

Two Cross Bases in St. Breward,

262

Cornish In Granite,

11

 

Cornish Language

Archaeologia Cornu Britannica (has Cornish Grammer and Cornish/English vocabulary) W. Pryce,

394

Celtic Numbers,

376

Cornish Language Board,

97

Kernewek-Some Fallacies and Discrepencies,

121

M/S of Volume on Cornish Language,

392

 

Cornish Reminiscences

Black Death, the

524

Christmas of the Yesteryears,

106

Cornish Club, A

430

Cornish Tour, A

148

Engine christening Day Down to Mine

551

Five Cornish Farmers

81

From a Redruth Journal

517

History of the Torpoint Ferry,

198

Kenegie Ghosts of the Past

31

Link With the Past, A

220

Memorable Night, A

111

Memories of Hingston Down,

238

Old Cornish Stories

44

These Things Have Been,

154, 215, 264

Troublesome Times,

356

West Cornwall Husbandman,

419

Wreck of the Suevic, The

419

 

Cornish Saints

Some Saints of Cornwall

57

St. Genny, St Constantine,

439

St. Myghill,

362

St. Piala,

131

Sts. Piran, Petroc, Crantoc, Cadoc, Nectan,

439

 

Dialect & Brevities

An Act Made and Ordeyned,

456

Baiting the Ook,

110

Celtic Numbers,

378

Cold Comfort on the Farm,

401

Dogmatical,

410

Helpful,

286

Information Wanted,

335

Institute of Cornish Studies,

490

Kenegie Ghosts,

33

Lor Bless Ye dun ee Knaw,

551

Now if Thee Art En Gon,

416

Pertinent Sayings No. 4,

43

Rowley, D.J.,

429

Suggestion for Research, A,

473

Windy Verdict,

109

 

Editorials

 

1

 

49

 

101

 

149

 

193

 

241

 

289

 

337

 

385

 

433

 

477

 

521

 

Legends

Blue Tit Legend, The,

523

Giant Stone

399

 

Mines

Mines & Miners of Cornwall, Part 15,

260

Bullen Garden Mine,

392

Carloose Mine,

393

Chacewater Mine,

392

Consolidated Mines

502

East & South Kit Hill mines,

181

Fowey Consuls,

505

Greystone Silver Lead Mine,

214

Kit Hill Great Consols,

181

Larrick Ochre Mine,

214

Levant Mine,

506

Pednandrea and Wheal Sparnon,

393

Pounce Mine,

134

Treglissen and Relistian Mines,

18

United Mines

505

Wheal Alfred,

230

Wheal Edward and Wheal Zion,

41

Wheal Jane,

434

Wheal Owles Mine, St Just,

190

Wheal Vor and Wheal Trannack,

503

 

Old Cornwall Societies

Camborne,

220

Chacewater,

549

Launceston,

171

Lostwithiel,

220

Mousehole,

197

Newquay,

518

Secretaties and Colours,

140, 282, 372, 474, 550

Truro,

498

50th Anniversary Old Cornwall Movement,

296 -325

 

Persons

Attwater, D.

49

Arundells, The Cornish,

350

Basset, F.

389

Budges of Linkinhorne, The,

405

Burnard, nevil Northey,

153

Casley, John,

389

Chynoweth, J.,

411

Clift, William,

356

Couch Family,

512

Culliford, W.,

13

Davy, Humphrey,

451

Douglas, M.,

50

Dudley, Miss. d.,

554

Edgcumbe, Lord,

441

Foote, Samuel,

23

Gubbs, A.,

160

Hawkins, C.,

484

Henderson, C.,

77

Hoblyn, R.,

12

Hudson, W.H.,

50

Lean, Herbert,

200

Loam, Mr.,

503

Lyne-Glubb, Family,

491

Mathews, Sir W.,

400

Michell, F,

49

Miners, Tom,

500

Morrissey, P.,

50

Pearce, John & William,

250, 424, 460

Pentreath, Dolly,

392, 534

Preston, Thomas,

481

Pryce, William M.D.,

388

Rashleigh, John

113

Rosewarne, J.,

49

Snell, Benjamin,

57

St. Aubyn,

236

Trecarrell, henry,

437

Trevithick, Richard,

23

Treffrey, Rev. Richard,

264

Watt, James,

392

Welman, M.,

36

Williams, Ada,

546

Williams, Harri,

533

 

Place Names

Field Names,

281

Place Names of Cornwall,

524

 

Places

Bodmin,

333, 481

Boyton,

534

Cadgwith,

423

Callington,

486

Calstock,

41

Camelford,

154

Clowance,

236

Combeshead,

183

Conerton,

131

Cotehele,

40

Dock,

40

Efford,

350

Fowey,

440, 474

Grampound,

484

Gulval,

33

Gwarnike,

24

Gwennap,

185

Helston,

154, 451, 466

Hingston Down,

238

Kenegie,

31

Lanlivery,

269, 358

Launceston,

442, 543

Lawhitton,

360, 499

Lezant,

207

Linkinghorne,

405

Liskeard,

481

Looe,

474

Lostwhithiel

261, 484

Lynher River,

77

Madron,

398

Maker,

377

menabilly,

113

Morvah,

398

Mount, the (St. Day)

6

Nanswhyden,

12

Padstow,

31

Pendeen,

497

Penlowarth,

239

Penryn,

512

Penzance,

160

Philack,

130

Poldhu,

451

Probus,

484

Redruth,

138, 388, 482, 517

Stamford Hill,

24

St. Allen,

24

St. Austell,

232, 484

St. Breward,

262

St. Ives,

474

St Kevern,

438, 547

Stithians,

144

Stoke Climsland,

176

Tamar,

92

Tehidy,

389

Thelbridge, (T'elbridge),

36

Tillie,

95

Torpoint,

481

Trecarrell,

207

Trewortha,

2

Truro,

23, 154, 440, 481

Wayton,

37

Whiteford,

183

Zennor,

80

 

Poetry

Baiting the 'Ook,

110

The Blue Tit Legend,

523

Carol Canoryon, Nos.

11

Cliff Garden, the,

76

Dugging Ring, the,

500

Dysky Kernewek in Loundres,

52

Gover Meneth,

30

Harbour Magic,

159

Lullaby, A,

480

Newlyn,

206

Pilot Psalm, The,

176

Psalm 103,

129

Sleeper from London,

329

Spirit of Place,

222

Spyrys An Scovarnak,

231

Symbol,

144

Whethel Coth An Cor Kernewek,

287, 336, 384, 432, 476, 520, 560

 

Superstitions

The Blue Tit Legend,

523

Horse Man Ridge Tiles,

195

 

Words

Arish,

416

Bounder,

135

Celtic Numbers,

376

Clobb Talfat,

411

Colan,

8

Corlan, Crowjy,

527

Cribs,

454

Down 'Omers

458

Flogh tenderra

480

Hale Goth, hal en keyn,

134

Imperial Leper,

79

Jouster,

194

Kernewek,

121

Lan, lin,

437

Local Landscape,

145

Morvoron

459

Notes on Lanlivery Parish,

358

Rogues Day,

43

Sek, Yett, Ysel,

359

Spence,

412

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