Cornish Wreckers

Martin Rowe the Smuggler in East Cornwall

Smuggling was considered no sin along the Cornish coast by the common folk. A letter from a vicar further east to a noted smuggler of that district includes the following:

Martin Rowe, you very well know,
That Cubert's vicar loves good liquor,
One bottle's all, upon my soul,
You'll do right to come tonight;
My wife's the banker, she pay for the anker.

Baring-Gould, A Book of Cornwall, pages 266-267.)

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