The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4) — John Shaqi
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
The Editor having commenced a contribution of money with twenty-five
pounds, raised it to a hundred and fifty; and on the 2d of November,
in the presence of thousands, amidst ladies waving their
handkerchiefs, men firing _feux-de-joye_, and universal shouts, Mr.
Goldsmith had the satisfaction and the glory of replacing this immense
rock in its natural position, uninjured in its discriminating
properties.
In consequence of the Editor making a second application to the
Admiralty, and of his commencing another contribution of money with
five pounds, Lanyon Cromlech was also replaced by the same apparatus.
The walk of about a mile and a half along the cliffs from Trereen
Dinas to St. Levan Church, is grand and romantic in the highest
degree. Between the two points is inclosed Porth Kernow, where the
water is beautifully transparent, over a fine sand composed in part of
minute shells quite entire, and of various species and genera, to be
collected on the beach. The church itself is in a most sequestered
spot, and said by Mr. Tonkin to be dedicated to St. Levina, who was a
British female, and suffered martyrdom under the Saxons before their
conversion to the Christian faith.
The relics of St. Levine or Lewine were long preserved and honoured at
Seaford, about ten miles from Eastbourn in Sussex, till, in 1058,
eight years before the Norman Conquest, her remains, together with
those of St. Idaberga, another female, and a portion of the relics of
St. Oswald, were carried beyond the seas, and deposited in the abbey
of St. Winock at Bergh in Flanders, amidst a variety of miracles
attested by Drogo, an eye-witness, and published in the great
collection of the Bollandists.
The only object worthy of attention in St. Levan church is a plain
monument to Miss Thomasin Dennis, with the following inscription:
Thomasin Dennis,
de Trembath,
ingenio, suavitate, virtute
insignis,
doctrina insignissima.
Nata xxix die Septembris, 1771,
væ!
lenta sed præmatura morte
erepta
obiit xxx die Augusti 1809,
anno ætatis xxxviii.
Miss Dennis was born at Sawah in this parish, the daughter of Mr.
Alexander Dennis, one of the superior class of farmers, who occupy
their own estates held at quit-rents for lives. He afterwards removed
to Trembath in Maddern. Her superior genius displayed itself at a very
early age, in reciting poetry from our best authors, and then in
producing imitations of her own. “She lisped in numbers from her
mother’s arms.” French was acquired with equal accuracy and facility;
and then, observing that her eldest brother appeared to make an
inadequate progress in Latin, occasioned by the entire want of
attention on the part of the schoolmaster at Penzance, this young lady
under eighteen studied a classic language for the mere purpose of
helping forward her brother.
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