Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall

Chapter 35: Transcriber's Note

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About This Book

A collection of evocative prose sketches and biographical studies that evoke Cornwall’s wild coast, moorland, churches, and local communities. Each essay mixes antiquarian detail, personal reminiscence, and legend to recount tales of giants, smugglers, pixies, ghosts, and eccentric local worthies while conveying landscape and atmosphere. The tone shifts between humour, mysticism, and reverent description, with an archaic, masonry-like prose style and a persistent taste for symbol and miracle. Appendices and illustrations provide documentary notes and visual accompaniment to the sketches.

Transcriber's Note

Illustrations have been moved next to the text to which they relate. The back cover referred to in the List of Illustrations was not included in the scanned book.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

p. 86 (note) "’ee.’" changed to "’ee.”"
p. 158 (note) "1867" changed to "1867."
p. 186 "canon-ball" changed to "cannon-ball"
p. 199 footnote anchor added
p. 203 (note) "head." changed to "head.”"

The following possible errors have been left as printed:

p. 221 ‘Make, haste,
p. 237 of it.

Inconsistent hyphenation has not been changed, nor has use of both Morwennæ and Morwennae. An inscription is given as both MVCLX4 (p. 246) and MDLX4 (p. 251).