74 EAST CORNWALL GLOSSART. TremayneSy dwellers by the rock, when French was fashionable took for arms the three hands ; the Trewinnards, their three winnards or redwings ; and the Trefosises, their three fusils. The Carminows held to their Cornish motto, Ca2a Rag Whethlow; and the Polwheles to their Karenza whelaa Karenza. In the compilation of my list I have gleaned from the collection of Jonathan Couch, who, as '^ Video," contributed it to Not^ and Queries (yoL x., First Series, 1854). The glossary in the History of PolperrOy commonly attributed to my father, is, with the chapter on folk-lore, entirely my own. I have also had assistance from the Verbal Provincialisms of South-Western Devonshire^ by W. Pengelly, F.E.S. In this pamphlet, reprinted from the Transactions of the Deyonshire Association for the Advancement of Science and Art, are many words coutributed by Mr. Pengelly from Looe in East Corn- wall, and they are so identical in sound and meaning with those in use at Polperro, that I much doubt the accuracy of Mr. Bond a informant when he says : — ^* I have been informed that about a century ago the people of Polperro had such a dialect among them, that even the inhabitants of Looe could scarce understand what they said. Of late years, however, from associating more with strangers^ they have nothing particularly striking in their mode of speech, except a few of the old people." ^ Many words have been taken from the comic and burlesque verse of Henry Daniel, a native of Lostwithiel, who has with exquisite humour and true poetic faculty made free use of our vernacular ; and also I am indebted to an interesting series of articles contributed by Dr. F. TV. P. Jago, of Plymouth, to the pages of The ComisJiman, a Penzance weekly paper. I have been much guided in the proper rendering of the words by Mr. ElHs's Pronunciation of English Dialects, and have striven to give them as phonetically as I could in ordinary spelling. ^ Topographical and Historical Sketches of E, and W. Looe.
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