Ancient Customs etc.
Ancient Customs. C.S. Gilbert.
The Sector of St. Keverne by ancient usage and
prescription claims a right (which is always
admitted) of sending a horse into a certain field
in the parish of Landewednack, whenever it is
cropped with corn, and taking away as many sheaves
as the horse can carry on his back.
Tenancy
Several tenants in St. Keverne hold their Lands for
a period of 99 years, determinable on the decease
of the longest liver of three lives, named by the
taker, who paid the Landlord an immediate fine,
calculated to fourteen years value. On the death of
the first of the three lives it was usual to add a
new one in his room to the two remaining,
The renewal fine generally amounted to three years
value for one life, and seven years value for two
lives, without any alteration in the conventionary
reserved in the original Lease
Clotted Cream
(Fires. Drink. Beds. Ballad. Nick-Names)
Some Antiquaries affirm that the Phoenicians
introduced clotted cream when they came to Cornwall
for tin, and quote the authority of modern
travellers who say that the same kind of clotted
cream is now very common in Syria, One very ancient
writer questions if the butter placed before the
Angels was this very cream. Genesis 19 chapter 8
verse.
The Cornish complained that "it was not
neighbourly of Devonshire to steal her cream, and
call it Devonshire cream when ail the world knew
the trick was caught from the Phoenicians who
brought it into Cornwall". Not even the
Devonshire Association has ventured to claim that
the Ships of Tyre and Sidon brought their scald
pans up the Dart or up the Tamar.
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