Last speaker of the Cornish language number of miners might have come was St Day and Carharrack, but they may have come from the area around Breage. If this "uncouth jargon" was Cornish it would mean that there were still a lot of people using it at the end of the 18th century. The Reverend John Bannister stated in 1871 that "The close of the 18th century witnessed the final extinction, as spoken language, of the old Celtic vernacular of Cornwall". However, there is some evidence that Cornish continued, albeit in limited usage by a handful of speakers, through the late 19th century. Matthias Wallis of
The Evil of the Day The Evil of the Day The Evil of the Day is a novel by Thomas Sterling, published in 1955. The book is patterned after Ben Jonson's Elizabethan comedy "Volpone", and was later adapted for the stage by playwright Frederick Knott under the title of "Mr. Fox of Venice". Together, these three works formed the basis of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1967 film "The Honey Pot". As in "Volpone" a wealthy old man summons three old faces from his past to his villa in Venice promising to name one his heir. It departs from Johnson's work when one of his guests is