Cornish Smugglers:  The Notorious Cruel Coppinger

(1876) Fisheries of Gloucester from the First Catch by the English in 1623 to the Centennial Year, 1876, Gloucester, MA: Procter Brothers, Publishers, p. 70 - Public Domain

One of the most extraordinary and fearsome figures in Cornish folklore and legend was Cruel Coppinger.

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