A Lonely Graveyard and the Early Friends in Western Cornwall
- A Lonely Graveyard and the Early Friends in Western Cornwall
Footnotes
1. This is what the number appeared to be ; different figures are given in the accounts.
2. This inscription is a good example of the need of looking for omissions and additions, and other errors, in so-called "exact" copies and the like. The writer, unfortunately, has had to try these. He has had access to five "accurate" copies. No two of these are precisely alike, but differ either in omissions or additions; only one gives the arrangement of the words as above, which is evidently correct. As the name Philippa is given without the final a by the two most careful transcribers, it is doubtless right to omit it.
3. Cornish was a dialect of the Cymric or British branch of the Celtic. It is said that the last man who could speak Cornish died in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
4. Modern stories of the dangers of the Cornish coasts from storms and wreckers will be found, told in graphic style, in S. Baring-Gould's Vicar of Morwenstow (R. S. Hawker), chapter V. (American Ed., New York, 1880.) See also R. S. Hawker, "Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall," 1870.
5. The local pronunciation of this name is Launson.
6. "First Publishers of Truth," p. 20.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid, p. 21. "Alexander Parker (1628-1688-9) lived in the Bowland district on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire." His parents were well-to-do. He frequently travelled with George Fox, and occupied an important position among the early Friends. He was not a voluminous writer. In A. R. Barclay's "Letters of the Early Friends," fourteen of his Letters are given ; of these eight are to Margaret Fell and four to George Fox. He was a close friend of Josiah Coale, and wrote a Testimony concerning him, referred to elsewhere in this number of the BULLETIN. See the full notice of him by Charlotte Fell Smith in the Dictionary of National Biography. George Bewley was probably the son of Thomas Bewley, of Haltcliffe Hall, Coldbeek, Cumberland. He is called in "First Publishers of Truth" (p. 85), "a sufficient man's son." Not much is known concerning him, except that he was a faithful proclaimer of the Truth. He suffered much persecution. He was imprisoned in Dorset (1657), and "for eight years in Cumberland at the suit of the priest of Coldbeek."
9. Thomas Curtis, of Reading, a woolen draper, had been a Captain in Cromwell's army. He travelled much, suffered much, and was imprisoned several times. He joined the Separatists under Wilkinson and Story in 1677, and was no longer recognized by Friends. See Journ. Friends' Histor. Soc., i: 57.
10. Ibid, p. 22.
11. "Thomas Salthouse, of Lancashire, marryed a wife in this County of Cornwall, & settled in Austle [St. Austell], visited meetings through Cornwall & Devon and often to Bristoll & London, & suffered imprisonment for his testimony against swearing, about the year 1684." F. P. T., p. 28.
12. Ibid, p. 28. W. Armistead, "Select Miscellanies," iv : 250-255.
13. Camb. Journal, I: 347. Spelling modernized. Thomas Lower married Mary Fell, daughter of Judge and Margaret Fell, 1668. He was a Cornish man himself of an aristocratic family. He was a frequent companion of George Fox, and the narrative parts of the manuscript Journal are in his handwriting. He died in 1720, aged 87.
14. "This was the Nicolas José (d. 1694), of Sennen, Land's End, mentioned above. He was of Spanish extraction. . . . Through the marriage of his daughter Honor with John Tregelles in 1676 he became the ancestor of several families of Friends. See also Armistead's Select Miscellanies, Vol. IV, pp. 250-255.
15. Fox's Journal, Bi-Cent. Ed., 1901, i: 458-461.
16. Cambridge Journal, 2:27, 28. Spelling modernized.
17. Cambridge Journal, 2:123, spelling modernized. A brief paper by Dr. R. Hingston Fox, entitled "Women's Meetings in Cornwall in the Early Days of the Society," will be found in Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, First Month, 1914 (Vol. XI, pp. 3234). Several extracts are given from the Minute...
