[27] This dislike is disappearing. When I was at Welcombe recently a grave was being dug on the northern side of the church. The grave-digger said he had been christened and married by Mr. Hawker: “one of the best passons,” he added, “us ever had.”—Ed.
[29] These initials are still to be seen at Stanbury, now a farmhouse. The scene of Mr. Baring-Gould’s novel “The Gaverocks” is partly laid there.
[30] Richard Cann, who died February 15, 1842. Compare Hawker’s head-note to the poem in “Cornish Ballads,” where it is called “The Dirge.”
[31] It may be said that the first editions of some of Hawker’s poems are on the grave-stones in Morwenstow churchyard. Other verses of this kind are those “On the Grave of a Child,” and some of the prose inscriptions bear traces of the same authorship.
[32] From Notes & Queries, 1st ser., vol. ii. p. 225. 1850. See Appen. [B].
[33] Compare “The Silent Tower of Bottreaux.”
“Thank God, thou whining knave! on land,
But thank, at sea, the steersman’s hand.”
[34] The scene of this legend is pointed out in the garden at Tonacombe Manor.
[35] From Household Words, vol. vi. pp. 515-517. 1853.