^'JEWS IN CORNWALL"; AND ''MARAZION." 325 



Physiognomists also have discovered others, besides these and the 

 sturdy fishermen of Mount's Bay referred to by the Professor, 

 having "the sharply marked features" of this j)eculiar people, 

 though, bearing names beginning with 



Tre, Eos, Pol, Lan, Caer, and Pen, 

 They are known to be true Cornishmen. 



But this is easily explained ; these names being territorial or local, 

 just as was the case with Isaac of York, Reuben of Tadcaster, &c. 



Old Testament, i.e., Hebrew, prsenomens are common ; and 

 though such as Maher-shalal-hash-baz (regularly transmitted in 

 one family ''•' in St. Agnes, and shortened into Shalal, or Lai), 

 Lazarus=Eleazar, Isaac, Melchizedek, Abednego, Absalom, Jona- 

 than, Elisha, Esther, may be referred to puritanical feeling 

 handed down from the time of the Commonwealth, this cannot 

 be said of names fovmd in Carew's Survey : there we have (fol. 138) : 

 "Master Samuel who married Halse" and would probably take 

 his wife's name; and (fol. 98) : "Michael Joseph, a blacksmith." 



There was also a Cornish family called letv, and Carew tells 

 us (fol. 145) that the heiress married an Arundel ; and though we 

 may not say positively that this name, by whomsoever borne, is 

 " doubtless from the nation of the primitive bearer," t yet it is 

 pretty certain such was the case with the Cornish family, as, in 

 the time of Edward II, we read ^ that John Pever-el held Hamet- 

 -ethy of Roger le Jeu. 



That Jews, or persons of Jewish extraction, worked the 

 Cornish tin mines, seems plain from " Extracts from the Council 

 Book of the Prince of Wales, temjx Edw. Ill," given at page 25 of 

 the Supplement to the present learned Vice- Warden's Report of 



" I never heard of my ancestors being of Hebrew extraction ; nothing was 



known of such to my father I have always considered one of 



my daughters to resemble in features the chosen people, and many intelligent 

 Israelites have been of the same opinion. Some years ago, Dr. Jago, of this 

 town, told me he could distinctly see traces of what had been Jewish in the 

 gait of one of my brothers." 



* This family rejoices in the euphonious monosyllabic surname " Dab "=: 

 David (?), and, in addition to the prsenomen given iai the text, they have 

 for generations had Aminadab, Amos, Jonathan, Melchizedek, &c. 



f Lower^s Patronyinica Britannica, p. 172. 



I Lysons' Cai-mvaU, p. 46. 



