HALGAVER-MOOR, (Cornwall) near Bodmin, is noted for a yearly carnival kept on it, about the middle of July, which is
resorted to by thousands of people. K. Cha. II. was so well pleased with the sports and pastimes of it, when he touched
here in his way to Scilly, that he became a brother of the jovial society, said to be as old as the Saxons. One of the
diversions here is, to draw the unwary into its quagmire; and certain criminals are tried here, before one whom they stile
the mayor of Halgaver, for some trivial offence, or other, and punished by some notable but harmless disgrace, such as
wearing one spur, &c. From hence slovens are commonly threatned to be preseted in Halgaver-Court.