Egloshayle Ringers
Words English
REFERENCES
Dunstan, R,
Cornish Dialect and Folk Song,
Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, London,1932
p 44.
Recorded by AL Mata, Organist of St Breock Church in 1932 from the singing of Mr Wm Rickard then aged 81
Gundry, I, Canow Kernow, Soundpost Publications, 1966 (see Bibliography) p 22
Racca 2, Calstock, 1997 (see Bibliography), nos 92 and 93
NOTES
" Taken down by Baring Gould from John Martyn, shoemaker of Milton Abbot who learnt it from his
wife's uncle, who died in 1868 and was a ringer at St Kew. `Song could be traced back to 1810. (Canow Kernow, Soundpost Publications, 1966 (see
Bibliography)
From monuments in Egloshayle it can be seen that the men mentioned in the song all died between 1821 and 1846.
