The Story of an Ancient Parish: Breage with Germoe, with some account of its Armigers, Worthies and Unworthies, Smugglers and Wreckers, Its Traditions and Superstitions

The Story of an Ancient Parish: Breage with Germoe, with some account of its Armigers, Worthies and Unworthies, Smugglers and Wreckers, Its Traditions and Superstitions by H. R. COULTHARD, M.A.

Copyright 1913

CONTENTS
Illustration: J. C. Burrow, F.R.P.S. Breage Church. Camborne.
Dedication
Preface.
List of the Vicars of Breage
Chapter 1. The Celtic Period.
Illustration: The Celtic Cross in Breage Churchyard.
Chapter 2. The Saxons.
Chapter 3. From the Norman Conquest to the Reformation.
Illustration: Frescos of St. Christopher and Our Lord in Breage Church.
Illustration: St. Germoe’s Chair.
Chapter 4. The Reformation to the end of the Commonwealth.
Chapter 5. Recent Times.
Chapter 6. The Godolphins.
Illustration: Godolphin House.
Illustration: A Godolphin Helmet in Breage Church.
Chapter 7. The Arundells, de Pengersicks, Militons and Sparnons.
Illustration: Pengersick Castle.
Chapter 8. Worthies and Unworthies: Harry Carter, John Carter, “King of Prussia”; Smuggling Ways and Days; William Lemon, Captain Tobias Martin, Poet, Joseph Boaden, Mathematician.
Chapter 9. Local Place Names and Superstitions.

Preface.

The facts and thoughts which comprise this little book were many of them, in the first instance, arranged for use in sermons on the Sundays preceding our local Feast Day, as some attempt to interest Parishioners in the story of our Church and parish.

I have to acknowledge with gratitude much information given me most ungrudgingly, from his great store of antiquarian learning, by the Reverend T. Taylor, Vicar of St. Just; likewise my thanks are due to Mr. H. Jenner for kindly help and information upon the etymology of local place names. I must also acknowledge the free use I have made of facts bearing upon the history of Breage and Germoe taken from Mr. Baring-Gould’s “Historic Characters and Events in Cornwall,” and at the same time I have to express my thanks to the Reverend H. J. Warner, Vicar of Yealmpton, the Reverend H. G. Burden, Vicar of Leominster, and Mr. A. E. Spender for valuable information and assistance. I have been greatly helped in my examination of the Parish Registers by the excellent transcription of large parts of them made by Mrs. Jocelyn Barnes.

Finally I have to thank a great number of kind friends at Breage, who have imparted to me the fast fading traditions of other times, to whom I venture to dedicate this brief record of days that are no more.

Breage,
All Saints’ Day, 1912.