-
nickname for the
overseas Cornish,
thought to
derive from the
practice of
Cornishmen asking if job
vacancies could be
filled by
their cousin named Jack in...
- The full
rhyming couplet runs: By Tre Pol and Pen /
Shall ye know all
Cornishmen, a
version of
which was
recorded by
Richard Carew in his
Survey of Cornwall...
-
shall know the
Cornishmen; however,
Camden records the
rhyme as By Tre, Ros, Pol, Lan, Caer and Pen / You may know the most
Cornishmen. Tre – a settlement...
-
Prideaux (1878).
Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: a
Catalogue of the
Writings of
Cornishmen. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green,
Reader and Dyer.
Retrieved 19 November...
-
British people (demonym "Britons")
Cornwall →
Cornish people (demonym "
Cornishmen", "Cornishwomen")
Denmark →
Danish people (demonym "Danes")
England →...
- were
complaints of the eyre of 1198
reducing the
kingdom to
poverty and
Cornishmen fleeing to
escape the eyre of 1233.
Henry II's
creation of a powerful...
-
Cromwell and many of his
privy council were
reported as
watching 100
Cornishmen wrestling in Hyde Park,
presenting "...great
agility of body and most...
-
Cornish poets. Jack
Clemo and the
scholar A. L.
Rowse were also
notable Cornishmen known for
their poetry; The Rev. R. S.
Hawker of
Morwenstow wrote some...
- Red Hill Mine is a self-guided tour that
tells the
story of a
group of
Cornishmen and
their discovery of the
Welcome Nugget. The
Sovereign Quartz Mine runs...
- revolt; he was
declared as
Richard IV on
Bodmin Moor, and his army of 6,000
Cornishmen advanced on Taunton. However, when
Warbeck received word the king's troops...
