"Nowadays people read history with the simple desire to obtain accurate information upon all points connected both with the public and private life of their forefathers, and demand rather a digest of authentic records than a literary essay."
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A History of the Parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor (1891)
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John Hobson Matthews
1858 β 1914
John Hobson Matthews (1858 β 23 January 1914) was an English-born Welsh Roman Catholic poet, Celticist, historian, archivist and solicitor.
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