Lydford Prison, Sir Richard Granville, Judge Jeffreys and the Black Pig

"It is far preferable to be hanged than imprisoned in Lydford Castle, for the Black Hole of Calcutta was not a worse than the dungeon of the Stannary prison, where were incarcerated the luckless tinners who infringed the laws governing them. Sir John Granville was, perhaps, the worst governor; but Judge Jeffreys bears most of the odium of the place, which he is said to haunt in the form of a black pig."

Cresswell 1921

Map - Lydford Castle