Swing 'em, swang 'em, bells at Wrangham, Three dogs in a string, hang 'em, hang 'em.-G. 135. A hit at the Cheshire provincial pronunciation of the ng. Halliwell, p. 197. CORNWALL. God keep us from rocks and shelving sands, And save us from Breage and Germoe men's hands. Places notorious for smugglers. AR. v. 18. When Caradon's capped and St. Cleer hooded Cornwall swab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings, And Leicester beans and bacon fit for kings. Scarcely a folk-rhyme, it occurs in Dr. King's Art of Cookery. CE. v. 500. Cornwall will bear a shower every day, And two on Sunday. This saying holds true more especially of the high lands at St. Minver, etc. BC. 112: CG. v. 208. These three words are the dictionary of such surnames which are originally Cornish ; and though nouns in sense, I may fitly term them prepositions. i. Tre signifieth a town; hence Tre-fry, Trelawny, Tre-vanion, etc. ii. Pol signifieth an head; hence Polwhele. iii. Pen signifieth a top; hence Pentire, Penrose, Penkevil, etc. AT.; AU. Variants By Tre, Pol, and Pen, Ros, Caer, and Lan, You shall know all Cornish men. This saying is referred to by Borde in his Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, 1542 (edit. Furnivall, 1870, p. 122): Notes and Queries, 3rd ser., iv. 208: BC. 103. = By Tre, Ros, Pol, Lan, Caer, and Pen, You may know the most of Cornish men. Ross heath, or unenclosed ground; Lan = church; Caer or Car a fortified place, p. 69. Surnames in Ros: Roscarrack, Roscorla, Roscrow, Rosogan, Roseveal, etc. In Lan: Lanbaddern, Lander, Langherne, Lanner, Lanyon, etc. In Car Cardew, Carew, Carlyon, Carne, Carveth, etc. Lower, Patronymica Britannica, 8vo, 1860, p. 70; see also Camden's Remains, p. 142. A Cornish antiquary, Dr. Banister, has amassed no less than 2400 names with Tre, 500 with Pen, 400 with Ros, 300 with Lan, 200 with Pol, 200 with Caer. CY. i. 121. A distinct couplet is— Car and Pen, Pol and Tre, Will make the devil run away.—CY. ii. 41. Is worth London town dear ybought. Hingston Down was supposed not only to be extremely rich in tin, but also to have in its bowels Cornish diamonds, vulgarly estimated superior to those of India. In Fuller's time the tin began to fail here; having fallen, as he terms it, to a scant saving scarcity. As to the diamonds, no one has yet judged it worth his while to dig for them. AU.: CY. v. 276. One day the devil, having nothing to do, At the head of the inlet (Trelawne Mill), on the wooded heights, are the remains of a circular encampment connected with a rampart or raised bank, which extends from this point through Lanreath to the large earthwork on Bury Down, isolating a tract of country on the coast. It was either erected by the Danes, or was the ancient line of demarcation between the Saxons and Britons. At Lanreath, in Borlase's time, it was seven feet high and twenty feet wide. It proceeds in a straight line up and down hill indifferently for at least seven miles, and is properly called the Giant's Hedge. It is, of course, assigned to the devil. See rhyme. BQ Old Penryners, up in the tree, Looking as whist as whist can be ; Falmouth boys, as strong as oak, Knock them down with a single stroke.-CY. ii. 6. Redruth boys, Redruth boys, up in the tree, Looking as whist as whist can be ; Illogan boys, Illogan boys, up in the oak, Knocking down Redruth boys at every stroke. And vice versa. Whist or wisht ST. AUSTELL. = melancholy. CY. ii. 37. Now farmers, now farmers, take care of your hay, For generations an annual gathering of the Friends was held at St. Austell, at about hay harvest, and it was so uniformly wet that it became proverbial, and the above rhyme was in everybody's mouth. CY. ii. 31. When with panniers astride The world will be done. The stone is a great rock in the churchyard at St. Levan's. AV. 193. The church of Talland (a village on the south coast of Cornwall) is not in the centre of the parish, but near the sea. A legend accounts for its position thus: It was begun at a spot called Pulpit, but each night a voice was heard saying If you will my wish fulfil, Build the church on Talland Hill, and the 'stones put up by day (at Pulpit) were removed. AR. v. 25. CUMBERLAND. If that glass either break or fall, Farewell the luck of Eden Hall. Eden Hall, in Cumberland, the residence of the Musgraves, whose fortunes were supposed to depend on this glass. See Hazlitt's Popular Antiquities, 1870, iii. 25, where a different reading occurs, and Warton's History of English Poetry, edit. Hazlitt, i. 36, note. Ritson gives the tradition in his Fairy Tales, 1831, pp. 150, 151. A representation of the glass is given by Lysons, (Cumberland, ccix.). BC. 230. The tale is that the butler once went to draw water from St. Cuthbert's Well, in Eden Hall garden, when the fairies left their drinking glass on the well to enjoy a little fun. The butler seized the glass, and ran off with it."-Brewer, Dict. Phrase and Fable. The lines of prophecy were uttered by the fairies. Uhland, the German poet, has a ballad on the subject, in which he makes the young lord say that a water sprite wrote the words in the glass when presenting it to his ancestor. He then tries the strength of the glass, and the prophecy at the same time, by successive blows. The goblet flies, and in storm the foe that have scaled the castle during the revel; the young lord is slain, and the butler, seeking amongst the ruins next day, finds his master's fleshless hand grasping still the stem of the goblet. Longfellow translated the ballad, and adds, "The goblet is in the possession of Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bart., of Eden Hall, Cumberland, and is not so entirely shattered as the ballad leaves it." Sec a seet as ne'er was seen, Plimlan Church on Arkleby Green.*-X. 73. Plumbland, five miles north of Cockermouth, West Cumberland; Arkleby, about three miles east of Allonby, West Cumberland. If Skiddaw hath a cap, Scruffel wots full well of that.-L. 822: AT. Scruffel is in Annandale in Scotland. When the former is capped with clouds, rain will soon fall on the latter. "It is spoken of such who may expect to sympathise in their sufferings, by reason of the vicinity of their situation." AU. Are the highest hills in all England.—AT.: AU. * Mr. Hazlitt, in his English Proverbs, quoting Higson's MS. Collec tion, No. 29, has The greatest wonder ever was seen Is Stumbland Church on Parsonby green. The rhyme above is the more correct, I think. Compare "Ingleboro', Pendle, and Penigent," etc., co. York. = of Cumberland and Westmoreland, = 3055 feet. Up now, ace, and down with the trey, Or Wardhall's gone for ever and aye. Higson's MS. Collection, No. 27. Another version occurs, ibid., No. 28: Up a deuce, or else a trey, Or Warthole's gone for ever and aye. The place referred to is Wardal, in Cumberland, between Egremont and Ambleside, in the parish of Seabraham. Mr. Higson quotes Whellan's Cumberland and Westmoreland, p. 290. See BC. 463. DERBYSHIRE. Barrow's big boulders, Repton merry bells, Foremark's cracked pancheons and Newton eggshells. -said of the bells. CJ. ii. 514. When Codnor's Pond runs dry, The Lords may say good-bye. At Codnor Park there is a large pond, believed never to fail. AR. ii. 279. DERBY (bells). Pancakes and fritters, say All Saints' and St. Peter's, Oh! very well, says little Michel. Song on the bells of Derby, on football morning; a custom now discontinued. AY. 108. See NORTHAMPTON, etc. Derbyshire born, Derbyshire bred, Strong i' th' arm, and thick i' th' head. Folklore Journal, vol. ii. CE. v. 573 gives weak in place of " thick.” R. 290 gives "Strong i' th' back." See also AR. ii. 279. Compare "Cheshire bred;" "Manchester bred." |