Cornish Characters and Strange Events. Baring-Gould Sabine

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СКАЧАТЬ fair, and pure as fair;

      Fly S. Ives and all her treasures,

      Fly her soft voluptuous pleasures;

      Fly her sons and all their wiles,

      Lushing in their wanton smiles;

      Fly the splendid midnight halls;

      Fly the revels of her balls;

      Fly, O fly the chosen seat,

      Where vanity and fashion meet.

      Hither hasten from the ring,

      Round the tomb in chorus sing,

      And on the lofty mountain's brow, aptly dight,

      Just as we should be, all in white,

      Leave all our troubles and our cares below.

      THOMAS TREGOSS

      A certain Roscadden going on a pilgrimage in the days before the Reformation, and being absent some years, was surprised on his return to find that his wife had borne one if not more children. Very much and very naturally put out, he consulted with one John Tregoss, who advised him to settle his estate upon some friend whom he could trust, for the use and benefit of his children whom he would own, and for the wife not to be left absolutely destitute in the event of his death. Mr. Roscadden approved of this counsel, and constituted John Tregoss his heir absolutely, but always with the understanding that the said Tregoss should administer his estate according to the wishes and instructions of Roscadden. But this gentleman dying soon after, John Tregoss entered on possession of the estate, "turned the wife and children out of doors, who for some time were fain to lye in an hog-stye, and every morning went forth to the Dung-hill, and there upon their faces imprecated and prayed that the vengeance of God might fall upon Tregoss and his posterity for this so perfidious and merciless deed.

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      1

      The letter is given in Household Words, 1852, p. 234.

      2

      Froude, Hist. of England, X, p. 410.

      3

      Ibid., XI, 471-2.

      4

      We have only Peters' own word for this sum. It was probably much less.

      5

      Vita, J. Barwick, London, 1721.

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1

The letter is given in Household Words, 1852, p. 234.

2

Froude, Hist. of England, X, p. 410.

3

Ibid., XI, 471-2.

4

We have only Peters' own word for this sum. It was probably much less.

5

Vita, J. Barwick, London, 1721.

6

Stubbe, Justification of the War, 1673, pt. ii. p. 83.

7

Whitfeld, Plymouth and Devonport in War and Peace, Plymouth, 1900.

8

Morning Leader, 29th October, 1902.

9

There is an engraving of it in the Annual Report of the Society of Arts for 1821. The life-preserving rocket was exhibited on the Serpentine before the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William IV, on May 28th, 1819. People looked on as at some firework display, and nothing came of it.

10

Trengrouse's apparatus fitted into a case 4 ft. 3 in. long by 1 ft. 6 in. wide.

11

The cup is still in the possession of the Corporation of Penryn. It is of silver, will hold about three quarts, and is inscribed: "From Mayor to Mayor of the town of Penryn, where they received me in great misery. Jane Killygrew, 1613."

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