Cornwall
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
County cited as an example of gross over-representation under the unreformed system.
whilst fortytwo members were lavished upon Cornwall, neither Birmingham nor Manchester had any representative whatever;
The Game of Logic
A region in England mentioned as the location of a carrier's cart where the name Barzillai Beckalegg was seen.
It's on a carrier's cart, somewhere down in Cornwall.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A district whose men, on one occasion, fled to the woods for fear of the coming of the dreaded Justices in Eyre.
On one occasion, the men of Cornwall “from fear of their coming, fled to the woods.