| Cornish Fishermen | [Frontispiece] |
| From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge. | |
| S. Melor's Well, Linkinhorne | To face page [28] |
| From a photograph by the Rev. A. H. Malan. |
| Well Chapel of S. Clether | " | [33] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Cross, S. Levan | " | [38] |
| Launceston | " | [44] |
| From an old print. | ||
| A Tin Mould | " | [62] |
| Launceston, Church Porch | " | [67] |
| From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge. | ||
| Trewortha Marsh | " | [83] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Plan of Habitation on Trewortha Marsh | " | [84] |
| By permission of the Daily Graphic. | ||
| The Council Hall, Trewortha Marsh | " | [85] |
| By permission of the Daily Graphic. | ||
| Callington | " | [96] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Callington Cross | " | [103] |
| Drawn by F. B. Bond, Esq. | ||
| The Cheesewring | " | [106] |
| From an old engraving. | ||
| Arsenic Manufacture | " | [109] |
| From a photograph by F. B. Bond, Esq. | ||
| Arsenic Works | " | [110] |
| From a photograph by F. B. Bond, Esq. | ||
| King Arthur | " | [118] |
| From the tomb of Maximilian I. at Innsbruck. | ||
| Tintagel | " | [122] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Beehive Hut | " | [127] |
| By permission of the Daily Graphic. | ||
| Bude | " | [134] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Maces and Seal of Saltash | " | [151] |
| Drawn by F. D. Bedford, Esq. | ||
| In Saltash | " | [152] |
| Drawn by F. D. Bedford, Esq. | ||
| Anne Glanville | " | [158] |
| Chalice, Saltash | " | [161] |
| Padstow Harbour | " | [163] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Fowey Harbour | " | [188] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Lostwithiel Bridge | " | [189] |
| Drawn by F. B. Bond, Esq. | ||
| S. Mawe's Castle | " | [210] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| The Lizard | " | [242] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Gunwalloe Church | " | [254] |
| From a sketch by F. B. Bond, Esq. | ||
| Mount's Bay | " | [262] |
| From a photograph by Messrs. Gibson, Penzance. | ||
| Land's End | " | [305] |
| From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq. | ||
| Chûn Quoit | " | [326] |
| From an old engraving. | ||
| The Pulpit Rock, Scilly | " | [329] |
| From a photograph. |
CHAPTER I.
THE CORNISH SAINTS
A saint or squab pie--The saints belong to five classes--I. The members of the royal Dumnonian family--II. Irish-Welsh colonists--The invasion of Brecknock--Brychan--The invasion of Cornwall and Devon--Murtogh Mac Earca--III. Irish in West Cornwall--IV. Welsh-Breton saints--V. Pure Breton importations--Ecclesiastical colonies--Llans and cells--Tribal organisation--Ecclesiastical also tribal--The sanctuary--How a tribe was recruited--Jurisdiction--What a Celtic monastery was--Rights exercised by the saints--That of ill-wishing--Missionary methods of the Celtic saints--Illand and S. Bridget--The power of the keys as the saints understood it--Reciprocal rights--The saint expected to curse the enemies of the secular tribe--Asceticism--A legal process carried into religion--Story of the three clerks--A higher idea of asceticism gained ground--S. Columba and the nettles--The saints and animals--And children--How they used their powers--What they did for womankind--The biographies, how far trustworthy--The interest in knowing something of the founders of the Churches.
The story goes that the devil one day came to the Tamar from the Devon side and stood rubbing his chin and considering.
"No," said he, "I won't risk it. Yonder every person is made into a saint, and everything into squab pie. I do not feel qualified for either position."
And it is a fact that nowhere else in England are there so many villages bearing the names of saints, and these names strange, and such as may be sought out in vain in the calendars that are easily accessible. One is impressed with the idea that the vast majority of these saints are unknown and negligible quantities.