• Smuggling activities of John Carter, the King of Prussia;


• Events in the corrupted, mazed, 1768 Parliamentary election in St. Ives where a woman with eight daughters was placed on the electoral roll despite women not being enfranchised;


• Followed by a description of the scandal as recorded by John Hobson Matthews in his authoritative, 1892, ‘History of the Parishes of Saint Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor in the County of Cornwall’;


• Developing friendship between a wealthy man and a fisherman due to the, supposedly, nefarious activities of the fisherman’s granddaughter;


• Contest between two smugglers for the affections of a local girl containing a fictionalised account of one of the adventures of Harry Carter, the brother of the King of Prussia which was adapted from Harry Carter’s recording of events in his ‘Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler’.
  

It is interesting that two of Q’s maternal great uncles served on a naval dispatch boat The Black Joke and were captured by French privateers in 1810. Some time after their release they sailed to Tenereiffe as part of an armed merchant convoy but were never heard of again.