Cornish Characters and Strange Events
by S. Baring-Gould
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Contents
- Preface
- William Pengelly, Geologist
- Sir Charles Wills, K.B.
- Lieutenant Goldsmith and the Logan Rock
- Hugh Peters, the Regicide
- James Polkinghorne, the Wrestler
- Henry Trengrouse, Inventor
- The Botathan Ghost
- John Couch Adams, Astronomer
- Daniel Gumb
- Laurence Braddon
- Thomasine Bonaventura
- The Murder of Nevill Norway
- Sir William Lower, Knt
- The Pirates at Penzance
- Dame Killigrew
- Two Naturalists in Cornwall
- Sir John Call, Bart
- John Knill
- Thomas Tregoss
- Anthony Payne
- Nevil Northey Burnard
- Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, Knt., Inventor
- The Janes
- The Penningtons
- Doctor Glynn-Clobery
- Three Men of Mousehole
- Dolly Pentreath
- Robert Jeffery of Polperro
- Admiral Richard Darton Thomas
- Commander John Pollard
- The Case of Bosavern Penlez
- Samuel Foote
- The Last Lord Mohun
- The Last Lord Camelford
- William Noye
- William Lemon
- Samuel Drew
- The Siege of Skewis
- The Voyage of John Sands
- Charles Incledon
- The Murder of Richard Coryton
- Sir James Tillie, Knt
- Lieutenant John Hawkey
- Dr. Daniel Lombard
- The Dream of Mr. Williams
- Sir Robert Tresilian
- Pirate Trelawny
- James Silk Buckingham
- Mary Ann Davenport, Actress
- The Royal Family of Prussia
- Captain Richard Keigwin
- The Loss of the "Kent"
- Vice-Admiral Sir Charles V. Penrose
- Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bart
- Anne Jefferies
- Thomas Killigrew, the King's Jester
- Nicolas Roscarrock
- Lieutenant Philip G. King
- Hicks of Bodmin
- Captain Tobias Martin
- The Mayor of Bodmin
- John Nichols Tom,
- The Bohelland Tragedy
- Mary Kelynack
- Captain William Rogers
- John Burton, of Falmouth
- The Fate of Sir Cloudesley Shovel
- Francis Tregian
- Ann Glanville
- Jonathan Simpson, Highwayman
- Davies Gilbert
- James Hoskin, Farmer
- John Harris, the Miner Poet
- Edward Chapman
- John Coke, of Trerice
- Thomas Pellow, of Penryn
- The Origin of the Robartes Family
- Theodore Paleologus
- The Works of Anatole France
- Notice
- Living Masters of Music
- A Catalogue of Memoirs, Biographies, Etc