Definition of Cornishmen. Meaning of Cornishmen. Synonyms of Cornishmen

- 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...
- British people (demonym "Britons") Cornwall → Cornish people (demonym "Cornishmen", "Cornishwomen") Denmark → Danish people (demonym "Danes") England →...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cornwall is given a distinct identity predating England, Scotland or Wales. Cornishmen continued to regard themselves as descendants of Corineus until well into...
- Prideaux (1878). Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: a Catalogue of the Writings of Cornishmen. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. Retrieved 19 November...
- The Annales Cambriae states that in 722, the Battle of Hehil "among the Cornishmen" was won by the Britons. In the view of the historian Thomas Charles-Edwards...