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DANCE AROUND TOMB

WILL OF CORNISH ECCENTRIC

Seventy-year-old John Care played the violin as villagers, including ten girls in white, danced round a 50-foot spire on a hilltop near St. Ives, watched by the robed Mayor and Corporation of the Cornish fishing town. For the John 'Knill dancing has again been celebrated, as it is every five years since this eccentric man died in 1811. By his will the girls, who must be daughters of seamen, fishermen, or tin miners of St. Ives, get 10s each when they have danced round his intended tomb and its steeple for a quarter of an hour. John Care receives £1 for playing the accompaniment as they sing the 100th Psalm. And two widows over 64 also receive £1 each for attending. The biggest family get £2 10s and so do the two women judged the best knitters of fishing nets. Knill, who was mayor, magistrate, Customs officer, and reputed smuggler, was not after all buried under his steeple but at St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19461016.2.33

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 38, 16 October 1946, Page 6

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171

DANCE AROUND TOMB Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 38, 16 October 1946, Page 6

DANCE AROUND TOMB Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 38, 16 October 1946, Page 6

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