Chapter Corinth to Coronation Chair of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Cornish Language was virtually extinct 150 years ago. Doll Pentreath, the last person who could speak it, died, at the age of ninety-one, in 1777. (Notes and Queries.)

Cornish Names

“By Tre, Pol, and Pen,
You shall know the Cornishmen.”

   Thus, Tre [a town] gives Trefry, Tregengon, Tregony, Tregothnan, Trelawy, Tremayne, Trevannion, Treveddoe, Trewithen, etc.
   Pol [a head] gives Polkerris Point, Polperro, Polwheel, etc.
   Pen [a top] gives Penkevil, Penrice, Penrose, Pentire, etc.

Cornish Wonder (The). John Opie, of Cornwall, the painter. (1761-1807.)

Cornubian Shore (The). Cornwall, famous for its tin mines.

“... from the bleak Cornubian shore
Dispense the mineral treasure, which of old
Sidonian pilots sought.”
Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads.

Cornu-copia (See Amalthaeas Horn .)

Cornwall (See Barry, Corineus .)

Coronach (See Coranach .)

Coronation Chair consists of a stone so enclosed as to form a chair.
   It was probably the stone on which the kings of Ireland were inaugurated on the hill of Tara. It was removed by Fergus, son of Eric, to Argyleshire, and thence by King Kenneth (in the ninth century) to Scone, where it was enclosed in a wooden chair. Edward I. transferred it to Westminster.
   The monkish legend says that it was the very stone which formed “Jacob's pillow.”
   The tradition is, “Wherever this stone is found, there will reign some of the Scotch race of kings.” (See Scone.)