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H. R. Coulthard. The Story of an Ancient Parish: Breage with Germoe
The Story of an Ancient Parish: Breage with Germoe
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE CELTIC PERIOD
CHAPTER I
Footnote
THE SAXONS
CHAPTER II
Footnote
From the Norman Conquest to the Reformation
CHAPTER III
Footnote
The Reformation to the end of the Commonwealth
CHAPTER IV
Footnote
RECENT TIMES
CHAPTER V
Footnote
THE GODOLPHINS
CHAPTER VI
Footnote
The Arundells, de Pengersicks, Militons and Sparnons
CHAPTER VII
Footnote
Worthies and Unworthies
CHAPTER VIII
Footnote
Local Place Names and Superstitions
CHAPTER IX
Footnote
INDEX
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H. R. Coulthard
With Some Account of Its Armigers, Worthies and Unworthies, Smugglers and Wreckers, Its Traditions and Superstitions
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It seems in every way possible that a fair proportion of the tin exported from the Island of Ictis to Greece, Italy and the East came from what is now the Parish of Breage. We have been told by those competent to speak on such matters that there are tin workings in the neighbourhood of Wheal Vor which evince a very great antiquity. The name of Wheal Vor itself means in the Celtic tongue "great work," but we cannot build much as to the antiquity of the mine merely upon its Celtic name, as the Cornish or Celtic language continued to be spoken in this part of Cornwall even until the reign of Queen Anne or later.
At what date the Romans penetrated into Cornwall it is impossible to say. It has been usual to regard their occupation of Cornwall as of a somewhat shadowy and uncertain character, but this is not altogether borne out by facts. Their camps, possibly of a not very permanent character, are scattered all over our most western part of the County, amongst other places there is one at St. Erth and another in the parish of Constantine. The Roman Mile-stone, found in the foundations of St. Hilary Church, at the restoration, and now preserved there, attests the fact that a Roman road to the extreme West passed near St. Hilary Church, probably following the same lines that the main road between Penzance and Helston follows to-day. Along this road it is probable would come the first real light and culture to Breage with the steady tramp of the marching legionaries. It may well have been that Christianity first travelled this way in their train. Roman coins and Roman pottery have been from time to time found all over the County. In 1779 an urn containing copper coins weighing eight pounds was found on Godolphin Farm by a ploughman who sold them to a Jew, and so all trace of them was lost.
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