West Country

an amazing place but that can do with some love let's be honest um and also supporting businesses and workers in the visitor economy so things like um late night transport routes for people that work in the nighttime economy people that support um our tourists so it's it will be a mixed bag but it will all go directly back into the sector i have

to leave it there helen i'm grateful for your time helen godwin thank you labour mayor of the west of england talking about the great west country of course bristol bath and other places thanks for that 728 A weekend of protests, the Home Secretary, Home Truths to the police.

What should that actually look like on the streets? Kevin in Dudley.

Kevin, you're on the radio.

Thanks, Heidi Alexander, Transport Secretary.

Let's go a minute late to news, because I want to come to the conversation we had about the tourist tax, as it's being called, this ability for local authorities to add additional charges.

Jazz in Taunton, which is in the West Country, in Somerset.

Jazz, your take on this.

Um, and lots of her research was taken away by men, um, and passed off as, as men research, but it was her that did it.

Um, and she is from the West Country, which is where Hazelden is from.

Huh.

So same accent.

... um, is that he is a- my characterization of him is based on my dad and my stepdad.

Oh.

So, um, my stepdad is a thick, Cornish, West Country man-

Mm-hmm

Meantime in comes Mr. Legassick, with a bottle of wine in his hand, giving Mr. Carew a private wink.

to let him understand that he knew him and then very gravely inquired into the circumstances of his misfortune as also of the affairs and inhabitants of Dartmouth from whence he pretended to have sailed several times of all which he gave a full and particular account upon which Mr. Legassic gave him five shillings and recommended him as a real object to Mr. Rhodes who also made the same present upon which Mr. Legassic burst out laughing and being asked the reason thereof he could not forbear telling him even in Mr. Carew's presence when Mr. Rhodes finding himself a fourth time imposed upon by the same person with a great deal of good nature made himself very merry therewith Mr. Carew being now advanced in years and his strength beginning to fail he was seized with a violent fever which confined him to his bed for several weeks on recovering he reflected how idly he had spent his life and came to the resolution of resigning the Egyptian sceptre the assembly finding him determined reluctantly complied and he departed amidst the applause as well as the regrets of his subjects who despaired of ever again having such a king our hero returned home to the place of his nativity but finding the air of the town not rightly to agree with him and the death of some of his relations rendering his circumstances quite easy he retired to the west country where he purchased a neat cottage which he embellished in a handsome style and lived in a manner becoming a good old English gentleman respected by his neighbors and beloved by the poor to whom his doors were ever open here he died full of years and honors regretted by all having left his daughter a handsome fortune she was married to a neighboring gentleman of good family by whom she had a numerous family of promising children we shall now conclude our true history by observing that we consider mr carew to have as good a claim to fame and immortality as any of the heroes of the present age we acknowledge he had his faults but everybody knows a perfect character is quite out of fashion and that the authors of the present age hold it as an absurdity to draw even a fictitious hero without an abundance of faults end of chapter twenty-two chapter twenty-three of the surprising adventures of banfield more carew king of the beggars by banfield more carew this librivox recording is in the public domain a dictionary of the cant language as the language of the community of gypsies is very expressive and different from all others we think we shall gratify the curious by publishing a specimen of it abram naked without clothes or scarce enough to cover the nakedness ambidexter one that goes snacks in gaming with both parties also a lawyer that takes fees of a plaintiff and defendant at once allil wackets blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief instead of a ferula a jocular punishment among seamen who sometimes play at cards for wackets the loser suffering as many strokes as he has lost games abram cove among thieves signifies a naked or poor man also a lusty strong rogue adam tyler a pickpocket's associate who receives the stolen goods air and exercise he has had air and exercise that is has been whipped at the cart's tail or as it is generally expressed at the cart's arse alls the five alls is a country sign representing five human figures each having a motto under him the first is a king in his regalia his motto i govern all the second a bishop in his pontificals motto i pray for all third a lawyer in his gown motto i plead for all fourth a soldier in his regimentals fully accoutered with the motto i fight for all and the fifth a poor countryman with his scythe and rake motto i pay for all amen curler a parish clerk anodyne necklace a halter arch rogue or dimber-damber upright man the chief of a gang of gypsies arch doxy signifies the same in rank among the female canters or gypsies ard hot autumn mort a married woman also a female beggar with several children hired to excite charity autumn a church also married autumn baller a preacher autumn cacklers or prick-ears dissenters of whatever denomination autumn divers church pickpockets but often used for church wardens overseers of the poor sidesmen and others who manage the poor's money autumn jet a parson babes in the wood criminals in the stocks backed dead badge coves parish pensioners balsam money bam a jocular imposition the same as humbug bandog a bailiff or his followers a sergeant or his yeoman also a fierce mastiff bandero a widow's mourning peak also a musical instrument baptized rum brandy or any other spirits that have been lowered with water Barker, a salesman's servant that walks before the shop and cries, coats, gowns, etc.

What do you buy? Barking irons, pistols from their explosion resembling the barking of a dog.

Barnacles, a good job or a snack easily got.

Chuck farthing, a parish clerk.

Clank napper, a silver tankard.

Clickman toad, a watch, also an appellation for a West Countryman, said to have arisen from the following.

A West Countryman who had never seen a watch found one on a heath near Poole, which by the motion of his hand and the noises of the wheels he concluded to be a living creature of the toad kind and from its clicking he named it a clickman toad.

Shop now at QVC.com.

Welcome to the cryptic files podcast on the paranormal uk radio network So yes, here I am with a good friend of mine, we've known each other for many years, who's come over to visit me in the West Country, where I'm recording this conversation, my friend Richard Clements.

Richard, how are you doing? I'm

very well, thanks Andy, and thanks for putting up with me for a few days.

my weekend with you in a few weeks time you know and someone and I would hope perhaps someone who's writing it and if I do a bit because we're going to Glastonbury or the Essex or the witchcraft museum a bit further west than what I was anticipating on going but you've managed to twist my arm and we're And we're going down to Boscastle.

So that will be obviously, I can't ignore that.

But I would hope that someone would read it and think, oh, yeah, I think I'll go to the West Country for a holiday.

I

Am I not more efficacious for good as a preacher than as a versifier? Well, I don't know, muttered Poole.

We can all read your poems, you see, but we can't all follow you about the West Country to listen to you.

We can't track you to chapels at Taunton or Bridgewater or Shrewsbury, however eloquent you may be.

Not but what, he added with a sly twinkle.

Wait just a minute, Mulholland.

Christopher Mulholland? Wasn't that the name of the Eton schoolboy who was on the walking tour through the West Country? And then,

all of a sudden, milk,

she said, and sugar.

My dad was a lorry driver and my mum worked in a factory and we lived on a council estate near Croydon, South London.

And I always remember mum coming in with second-hand clothes and You know, our holidays were in a tent in a field down in the West Country, Cornwall.

And we always had good dinners and there felt like loving the family and stuff like that, you know.

But I used to be picked on for having... not the right shoes or the right trainers or the right football kit and stuff.

My dad was a lorry driver and my mum worked in a factory and we lived on a council estate near Croydon, South London.

And I always remember mum coming in with second-hand clothes and Our holidays were in a tent in a field down in the West Country, Cornwall.

But we always had good dinners and there felt like loving the family and stuff like that.

But I used to be picked on for having not the right shoes or the right trainers or...

And now when he walked down the street in his high hat, people would say to one another, There goes John Doolittle, M.D.

There was a time when he was the best-known doctor in the West Country.

Look at him now.

He hasn't any money and his stockings are full of holes.