Cornish Fairies

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin quotes an early eighteenth century manuscript entitled The Dutchess of Cornwall's Progress:

In Madern (Madron) parish a good woman of discretion hath told be of certain, that sitting up late in her father's house she often sawe fairies (neat little creatures) who familiarly talked with her, and gave away many groats until she betrayed this converse against their charges and order.

Jenkin, Cornwall and the Cornish, page 250; quoting Bodleian Library, Lhuyd MS., 10, 714.