: The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker M.A. by Baring Gould S Sabine - Hawker Robert Stephen 1803?-1875

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Ordination--The Black Pig "Gyp"--Writes to the Bishop--His 20 Father appointed to Stratton--He is given Morwenstow--The Waldron Lantern--St. Morwenna--The Children of Brychan--St. Modwenna of Burton-on-Trent--The North Cornish Coast--Tintagel--Stowe--Sir Bevil Grenville--Mr. Hawker's Discovery of the Grenville Letters--Those that remain--Antony Payne the Giant--Letters of Lady Grace--Of Lord Lansdown--Cornish Dramatic Power--Mr. Hicks of Bodmin

Description of Morwenstow--The Anerithmon Gelasma--Source 47 of the Tamar--Tonacombe--Morwenstow Church--Norman Chevron Moulding--Chancel--Altar--Shooting Rubbish--The Manning Bed--The Yellow Poncho--The Vicarage--Mr. Tom Knight--The Stag Robin Hood--Visitors--Silent Tower of Bottreaux--The Pet of Boscastle

Mr. Hawker's Politics--Election of 1857--His Zeal for the 78 Labourers--"The Poor Man and his Parish Church"--Letter to a Landlord--Death of his Man Tape--Kindness to the Poor--Verses over his Door--Reckless Charity--Hospitality--A Breakdown--His Eccentric Dress--The Devil and his Barn--His Ecclesiastical Vestments--Ceremonial--The Nine Cats--The Church Garden--Kindness to Animals--The Rooks and Jackdaws--The Well of St. John--Letter to a Young Man entering the University

Wellcombe--Mr. Hawker Postman to Wellcombe--The Miss 148 Kitties--Advertisement of Roger Giles--Superstitions--The Evil Eye--The Spiritual Ether--The Vicar's Pigs Bewitched--Horse killed by a Witch--He finds a lost Hen--A Lecture against Witchcraft--Its Failure--An Encounter with the Pixies--Curious Picture of a Pixie Revel--The Fairy-Ring--Antony Cleverdon and the Mermaids

The Vicar of Morwenstow as a Poet--His Epigrams--The 202 "Carol of the Pruss"--"Down with the Church"--The "Quest of the Sangreal"--Editions of his Poems--Ballads--The "Song of the Western Men"--The "Cornish Mother's Lament"--"A Thought"--Churchyards

Restoration of Morwenstow Church--The Shingle Roof--The 218 First Ruridecanal Synod--The Weekly Offertory--Correspondence with Mr. Walter--On Alms--Harvest Thanksgiving--The School--Mr. Hawker belonged to no Party--His Eastern Proclivities--Theological Ideas--Baptism--Original Sin--The Eucharist--His Preaching--Some Sermons

The First Mrs. Hawker--Her Influence over her 241 Husband--Anxiety about her Health--His Fits of Depression--Letter on the Death of Sir Thomas Acland--Reads Novels to his Wife--His Visions--Mysticism--Death of his Wife--Unhappy Condition--Burning of his Papers--Meets with his Second Wife--The Unburied Dead--Birth of his Child--Ruinous Condition of his Church--Goes to London--Resumes Opium-eating--Sickness--Goes to Boscastle--To Plymouth--His Death and Funeral--Conclusion

FOOTNOTES xxx

LIFE OF ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER

Young Robert was committed to his grandfather to be educated. The doctor, after the death of his wife, lived in Plymouth with his daughter, a widow, Mrs. Hodgson, at whose expense Robert was educated.

The profuse generosity, the deep religiousness, and the eccentricity of the doctor, had their effect on the boy, and traced in his opening mind and forming character deep lines, which were never effaced. Dr. Hawker had a heart always open to appeals of poverty, and in his kindness he believed every story of distress which was told him, and hastened to relieve it without inquiring closely whether it were true or not; nor did he stop to consider whether his own pocket could afford the generosity to which his heart prompted him. His wife, as long as she lived, found it a difficult matter to keep house. In winter, if he came across a poor family without sufficient coverings on their beds, he would speed home, pull the blankets off his own bed, and run with them over his arm to the house where they were needed.

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