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It’s said that in 1773 John Wesley preached to 32,000 people at Gwennap Pit. This would have been nearly a quarter of the whole population of Cornwall at that time.
Bretons (people from Brittany) joined the Cornish army during the Prayer Book Conflict. A Breton man called John Hammon was a gunner during the siege of Exeter.
When people become a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, they choose a special Bardic name. This is usually in the Cornish language.