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Updated: May 10, 2025
Penwarne, the seat of "One-handed Carew," is in this parish; he lost his hand at the siege of Ostend in 1601, and returning after the fight, he presented the amputated limb to his hostess, remarking "This is the hand that cut the pudding to-day." A little south is the fishing hamlet of Portmellin; and just beyond Chapel and Turbot Points reach out into the Channel.
Algernon, who went to Jesus College, Cambridge, became a Fellow there, practised severe parsimony, and dying unmarried in 1742, had his eyes closed by his college gyp and weighted with two penny pieces the only coins found in his breeches pocket. He left his very considerable savings to young Oliver, whom he had never seen. Frederick Penwarne, barrister-at-law.
Petherick at the lodge would confide the information that we'd had tea alone together to Miss Penwarne at the Post Office, and in half an hour the entire village would be all agog to know when the subsequent elopement was likely to occur." Sandy grinned. He had proposed to Nan several times already, only to be good-naturedly turned down. "I'd supply a date with pleasure."
"That's Italic," said John Peter, selecting an inscription and tracing over the flourishes with his thumb-nail. "'William Penwarne, b. 1837 that's the year the Queen came to the throne. It's easier to read, you see, than old English, and far easier than what we call Gothic, or Ecclesiastical which is another variety though, of course, not so easy as Plain.
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