Safeguarding Cornwall’s unique soul and identity through a sound knowledge of its past
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LIFE IN WEST CORNWALL Editor Jenny Dearlove
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Title: Eighteenth century life in West Cornwall
Editor: Jenny Dearlove
Contents: Zennor and its people in the early eighteenth century / The parish of Morvah and the lives of its people / Zennor houses in the early eighteenth century / Edward Giddy (1734-1814) / Penzance prisons / HM Sloop Fly at Penzance, maritime protection and matrimony / Magic and medicine in West Cornwall / Ways and means, road communication / Glimpses of West Cornwall through travellers’ eyes / John Wesley’s preaching house at Newlyn / Prices in the eighteenth century / ‘The husbandman and the serving man’ folksong / The Wherry Mine.
Publisher: Penwith Local History Group
ISBN 0-9540249-3-1
120 pages: illustrations, map, bibliography, index
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