-
nickname for the
overseas Cornish,
thought to
derive from the
practice of
Cornishmen asking if job
vacancies could be
filled by
their cousin named Jack in...
- The full
rhyming couplet runs: By Tre Pol and Pen /
Shall ye know all
Cornishmen, a
version of
which was
recorded by
Richard Carew in his
Survey of Cornwall...
- uprising. At the
gates of Exeter, the
rising leaders announced, "and so we
Cornishmen,
whereof certain of us
understand no English,
utterly refuse this new...
-
British people (demonym "Britons")
Cornwall →
Cornish people (demonym "
Cornishmen", "Cornishwomen")
Denmark →
Danish people (demonym "Danes")
England →...
-
Cornish poets. Jack
Clemo and the
scholar A. L.
Rowse were also
notable Cornishmen known for
their poetry; The Rev. R. S.
Hawker of
Morwenstow wrote some...
- were
complaints of the eyre of 1198
reducing the
kingdom to
poverty and
Cornishmen fleeing to
escape the eyre of 1233.
Henry II's
creation of a powerful...
-
Bridge near
London on 17 June 1497. The
insurgent army
mainly comprised Cornishmen,
although it also
gathered support from Devon, Somerset, and
other English...
-
Carhampton in Somerset, but in 838 he was
victorious over an
alliance of
Cornishmen and
Vikings at the
Battle of
Hingston Down,
reducing Cornwall to the status...
-
Prideaux (1878).
Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: a
Catalogue of the
Writings of
Cornishmen. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green,
Reader and Dyer.
Retrieved 19 November...
- revolt; he was
declared as
Richard IV on
Bodmin Moor, and his army of 6,000
Cornishmen advanced on Taunton. However, when
Warbeck received word the king's troops...
