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Did you know that in Zennor there were only 23 surnames for 85 families? Or that beer was brewed at home? That clergyman Edward Giddy thought 'long sermons are neither edifying nor decent'? Or that prisoners in a Penzance gaol were fed through bars merely 5 inches apart? That John Wesley recommended swallowing live spiders and woodlice to cur common ills? Or that in the eighteenth century naval ships frequently came into Mount's Bay and Penzance for shelter and supplies?…