50 interesting facts about the Cornish and the Constitutional Status of Cornwall (Kernow)

http://duchyofcornwall.eu -- "The Duchy of Cornwall is a well-managed private estate which funds the public, charitable and private activities of The Prince of Wales and his family. The duchy estate was created in 1337 and its primary function was to provide an income for the heir to the throne." This, at least, is the story 'the duchy' maintains today.

However, the website provides those who seek information on the autonomous history of Cornwall and the duchy with an alternative history of the Duchy of Cornwall. In fact, it is the only website offering a history of the duchy supported by references to primary source material:- http://duchyofcornwall.eu/

Although the "official" duchy website has a 'contact us' facility, utilising this function will not result in any sort of meaningful dialogue. This is because the duke likes to talk at people, not enter into dialogue with people - particularly when the subject matter is his duchys own history.

The website helps explain why the Prince of Wales, aka the peoples Prince will not respond to any representations from the people of Cornwall - a people who a while ago the Dux, or Leader, of Cornwall was only too pleased to acknowledge as his subjects who lived in a Duchy extra-territorial to England.

The 1337/38 kings writ did not run in Cornwall and his Summons of Exchequer did not extend to Cornwall either. As neither the kings writ nor Summons of Exchequer ran in Cornwall, Cornwall was, for all intents and purposes, a Crown dependency similar to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

State papers show the first Duke of Cornwall describing Cornwall as separate from England and the inhabitants of Cornwall as being his faithful subjects. (Acts of the Council of the Black Prince: 18th July 1351, 18 August 1354.) The 1337 Act of Parliament is still on the statute books and labelled by government in Halsburys Laws as: Constitutional Law 10. A Charter of 1337 setting the Duchy of Cornwall upon the Kings eldest son, and prescribing its future devolution.

In 1855 a financially motivated territorial dispute broke out between the government of the Duchy of Cornwall and the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The dispute centred on which government owned Cornwalls increasing lucrative tidal riverbed, foreshore and undersea mineral assets. The Duchy of Cornwall was obliged to re-state its independence and prove once again that Cornwall lay within the Duchy of Cornwalls jurisdiction. A startled UK government was forced to concede duchy independence. The subsequent Cornwall Submarine Mines Act 1858 acknowledged that Cornwall was co-terminus with the Duchy of Cornwall, and that Cornwall was the soil and territorial possession not of the Queen in right of the Crown of the United Kingdom, but the Duke of Cornwall in right of the Duchy of Cornwall.

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[cornubian]

Nyns yw Kernow radn Pow an Sowsen. Bro Keltek ywa, ha pobel Keltek on ni.

[cornubian]

Again sorry to disappoint any anglo-imperialists out there but:-

The oldes border in Britain is not the border between Wales and England nor is it the border between England and Scotland.

Yes the suppressed truth is that the the oldest border on this island by a very long way is the Tamar line marking the ancient border between Cornwall and England. It was set in 935AD by King Athelstan of Wessex to mark the border of Wessex and Kernow/Cornwall. Read the history books...

[3tangle3]

@Electricretropants your comment comes across as facist.........arent we all humans, why are the cornish irrelevant? maybe the high employment is because of being ignored and fucked over by the london state...........its resources such as tin are high value. ....so stop being a fucking knob, read some books and grow up and contribute to your local area big man

"England owns you" typical colonial bollocks is maybe the reason scotland wants to leave the backward undemocratic union

[Electricretropants]

Hi. I think the thing here is that Cornwall is quite an irrelevant place, with high unemployment and a fading fast economy. Nobody outside of Cornwall cares what happens to it. So, by all means argue the toss over what somebody said in an historical document 400 years ago. It's not going to make a blind bit of difference. England owns you.

[Pro13east]

i mean its all here on this video how can people argue with facts's like this end of day Cornish is not English as i friend once told me its not that Cornwall became a part of England its that England forgot that Cornwall was not their country Kernewek on ni a-dar Sowanek

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