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Acland, Lady Harriot, 29; Sir John, 29; Sir Thomas, 270 Adams, Will, 112 Adelaide, Queen, and Honiton lace, 49 Affeton Castle, 238 Ameredith, William, 153 American prisoners at Princetown, 85 Apsley, Colonel, 211; Sir Allen, 227 Arms and motto granted to Exeter, 9 Arlington Court, 252 Arundell, Colonel, 46 Ashburton, 121 Ashe, 68 Athelstan, monastery founded at Exeter by, 3 Atterbury, Bishop, anecdote of, 97 Audley, Lord, 128 Avant, Philip, 113 Axminster, 69 Axmouth, 66 Babb, John, 257; Ursula, 258 Ballads, poems, and songs, local, 69, 70, 83, 87, 99, 104, 106, 109, 117, 123, 124, 125, 134, 141, 149, 170, 179, 192, 193, 195, 201, 206, 208, 218, 239, 247, 251, 261, 271, 283 Bampfylde, Bampfield, Hugh, 24; John, 32, 33, 291; Sir John Coplestone, 32 Bampton, 13 Barker, Pentecost, 175 Barnstaple, 224 Barun, Walter, 269 Baunton, Robert de, 307; Simon de, 307 Bedford, Earls of, 80, 182 Beer, 65 Bellerophon in Plymouth Harbour, 177 Benet, Sir Henry, 148 Benson, Thomas, 249 Berkeley, Sir John, 12, 32, 90, 211 Berry Head, 113 Berrynarbour, 249 Berry Pomeroy, 285 Bickleigh, 24 Bideford, 201 Bigbury Bay, unknown lady drowned in, 146 Blackaller, John, 8 Blackhall, Christopher, 131 Blackmore, R. D., 20 Blackpool, 151 Blake, Martin, 224, 225 Blowing-house on Dartmoor, 75 Blundell, Peter, 19 Blundell's School, Tiverton, 19 Bohun, Margaret, 275 Bolt Head and Bolt Tail, 146 Boniface, 35 Bonville, Cicely, 57; Nicholas, 69 Botreaux, William de, 287 Boulay, Hamelin de, 307 Bradfield, 305 Bradninch, 29 Branscombe, 64 Braunton Burrows, 221 Bray, Mrs., on Wistman's Wood, 77 Brendon, 262 Brent Tor, 71, 198 Brioniis, Baldwin de, 297, 298 Briwere, Alicia de, 107; William, Lord, 107 Bromehall, Walter de, 91 Brown, Rev. Charles, 94 Browne, Richard, 161; William, 82, 194 Brudenell, Mr, 31 Buckfast Abbey, 122 Buckfastleigh, 122 Buck-horn, 115 Buckland Abbey, 195 Budleigh, East, 60 Budleigh Salterton, 60 Buller, Charles, 40; John Francis, 40 Bulmer, Sir Beavis, 251 Burgoyne, General, 30 Burke, Edmund, 146 Burleigh, Lord, 161 Bussell, Nicholas, 98 Cabal Government, the, 101 Cable, Richard, 291 Calder, John, 149 Canonteign, 98, 99 Carew, Sir Alexander, 173; Bampfylde Moore, 24; Dorothea, 17; Sir Gawen, 38, 52, 53, 54; George, 52, 108; John, 52; Sir Peter, 38, 52, 53, 54, 152, 282, 301; Sir William, 53 Carew arms, 52 Carey, Cary, Colonel, 153; George, 142; Sir Henry, 140; John, 215; Sir Robert, 216 Castle Hill, 240 Cecil, Sir Edward, 185; Sir Robert, 135; Sir William, 135 Cergeaux, John, 128 Chagford, 90 Challacombe, 285 Champernowne, Sir Arthur, 108, 128; Henry, 62, 128; Richard, 142; William, 291 Chapman Burrows, 266 Chapple, Will, 237 Charles II at Plymouth, 175 Charm for staunching of blood, 150 Chesney, Sir Charles, 20; George, 20 Chichester, Sir Arthur, 252; John, Sir John, 252; Robert de, Sir Robert, 252, 254 Choak-a-bone, tomb of, 67 Christmas custom at Dean Prior, 124 Christow, 97 Chudleigh, 100 Chudleigh, Sir George, 312 Churchill, Sir Winston, 68 Cider, Lord Bute's tax on, 50 Civil War, the, 11, 12, 22, 32, 50, 58, 90, 98, 139, 173, 194, 207, 226, 229, 273, 289, 312 Clements, Captain, 115 Clermont, Lady, anecdote of, 241 Clifford, Anthony, 100; Sir Thomas, 100 Clovelly, 213 Clyst River, 45 Cocke, Captain, 162 Coffin, Richard, 212; Sir William, 212 Colcombe, 68 Coleridge, Lord, on Ottery, 57 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 58 Colyton, 67 Combe Martin, 250 Common rights on Dartmoor, 79 Compton Castle, 294 Comyn, Peter, 307 Convicts at Lundy, 249 Cornish, the, their ignorance of English, 8 Cosway, Richard, 16 Countess Weir, 7 Countisbury, 260, 261 Courtenay, Lord, 54; Edward, 280; Lady Elizabeth, 281; Henry, 279; Hugh, Sir Hugh, 275, 276; Lady Matilda, 276; Sir Peter, 276, 278; Sir Philip, 272, 275, 276; Robert, 15; William, 153, 277 Coven, John, 95 Cranbrook Castle, 92 Crediton, 34 Creedy River, 34 Crockern Tor, 78 Crofts, Sir James, 135 Cromwell, Thomas, 80 Crosses on Dartmoor, 80 Cullen, Nicholas, 248 Cullompton, 27 Culm River, 27 Damarel family, 45 Damarel, Sir John, 300 Dancing Tree at Moreton, 92 Danes, the, in Devon, 104; at Exeter, 3; at Northam, 210 Daniel, Tom, 17 Dart, the, 19 Dartington Hall, 127 Dartmoor Forest, 71 Dartmouth, 136 Davis, Captain John, 11, 132; Mr, 98 De Albemarle family, 45 Dean Prior, 123 Deane, Captain, 273 Defoe, Daniel, on Honiton cider, 50; on trade of Exeter, 10 Dennis, Sir Thomas, 153 Devon, earldom of, restored, 281 Devonport, 157 'Devonshire Boys' Courage,' 104 Dickens's, Charles, description of Clovelly, 214 Digby, Colonel, 173, 227, 229 Dittisham, 133 Dodbrooke, 142 Doddescomba, Radulphus de, 307 Doddiscombsleigh, 97 Dog Acre Orchard, Axmouth, 67 Dog buried with parson of Axmouth, 66 Dogs as fish catchers, 132 Doone Valley, the, 264 Downes, 39 Drake, Sir Francis, 11, 108, 134, 165, 185, 195, 204; Sir John, 68 Drewsteignton, 91 Drizzlecombe, 75 Druidical remains, supposed, 76 Duel between Lord Mohun and Duke of Hamilton, 52 Dunsford, 97 Dynant, Oliver de, 217 Earls, William, 95 Easter customs on Exmoor, 268 Edgecombe, Betty, 150 Edward the Confessor in Exeter, 3 Edwards Susanna, 209 Elford Walter, 82 Eliot, Sir John, 173 Endsleigh, 199 Epigram on Sir Francis Drake, 171 Epitaphs, 16, 36, 49, 66, 203, 250, 293, 309 Escot, in Ottery, 55 Exe, the, 13 Exeter, 1; arms and motto, 9 Exeter Canal, 8 Exeter Cathedral, 5 Exeter Guildhall, 9 Exmoor, 267 Exmoor ponies, 270 Exmouth, 45 Exmouth, Lord, 99 Fairfax, Sir Thomas, 12, 23, 58, 98, 139, 229, 272, 274, 291 Falaise, William de, 128 Fersen, Count, and Lady Clermont, 241 Fiennes, Miss Celia, 41, 246 Fingle Bridge, 91 Fingle Gorge, 92 Fires at Tiverton, 20, 21 Fitz, John, 190 Fitz-Alan, Henry, 142 Fitzford House, 190, 194 Fitz-John, Matthew, 142 Fitz-Roald, Alan, 142 Floyer's Hayes, 298 Folk-lore, 254 Forde House, 103 'Forests of the Dartmoors,' 87 Fortescue, Sir Edward, 149, 240; Sir Faithful, 240; Sir Henry, 240; John, Sir John, 6, 240, 241; Sir Nicholas, 240 Fortibus, Isabel, 7 Fossway, the, at Honiton, 48 Fowell, Sir Edmund, 310; William, 291 Freeman, Professor, description of Exeter, 1, 12; on Exeter's privileges, 7, on Roman conquest of Exeter, 2 French prisoners at Crediton, 39; at Princetown, 85 Fulford, Sir Baldwin, 93 Fuller, Thomas, on Honiton lace, 49 Garret, Captain, 167 Gates, General, 31 Gaveston, Piers, 80 Gibbs, Hon Herbert, 127; John, 126; Thomas, 126, 127; William, 126, 127 Gilbert, Adrian, 251; Sir Humphrey, 11, 61, 133, 168, 251, 295 Giles, Sir Edward, 125; John, 125 Ginkel, General de, 307 Glanvill, Eulalia, 192; Judge, 191 Godolphin, Sidney, 90 Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 172 Goring, Lord, 227 Grandisson, Beatrice de, 57; Bishop John de, 5, 56; Sir Otho, 57 Great Fulford, 93 Greenaway, 133 Greenway, Joan, 19; John, 16, 19 Grenville, Sir Bevil, 207; John, 207; Richard de, Sir Richard, 174, 191, 194, 195, 203, 204, 205, 207, 208, 227; Thomas, 203 Grimspound, 74, 75 Grove, ——, 12 Groves, Hugh, 240 Guildhall, Exeter, 9 Guilds in Exeter, 9, 10 Gurney, Sir Richard, 202 Haccombe, 108 Hals, John, 127 Hameldon Barrow, 74 Hamilton, Duke of, 52; Sir Robert, 51 Hammett, John, 94 Hammond, Colonel, 274 Hancock, William, 252 Harnage, Major, 30 Harper, Nicholas, 250 Harrys, Christopher, 195 Hartland, 217 Hartland Abbey, 217 Hartland Point, 216 Harvest custom in Devon, 51 Hastings, Lord, 29; Simon, 107 Hatherleigh, 236 Haughton, Captain, 139 Hawkins, Sir John, 63, 162, 171; Sir Richard, 164; William, 162, 165 Hawley, John, 137 Hayes Barton, 60 Heddon's Mouth, 255 Hele, John, 195 Hembury Fort, 48 Henrietta, Princess, born at Exeter, 11 Henrietta Maria, Queen, at Exeter, 11 Herrick, William, 123 Hexter, Ann, 95 Hillersdon, John de, 27 Holborne, Colonel, 299 Hole, Robert, 150 Holland, John, 128; Lord, 173 Holne, 121 Holt, Mr, 292 Holy wells at Hatherleigh, 236 Honiton, 47 Honiton lace, 49 Hooker, Mr, 237 Hopton, Ralph, Lord, 173, 229, 230, 231 Hounds as tin-carriers, 78 How, John, 95 Howard, Sir Charles, 191; Lady, 190 Huguenots at Plymouth, 175 Hungerford, Lord, 29 Hunters' Lodge Inn, 55 Hut-dwellings on Dartmoor, 74 Ilfracombe, 244 Izacke's description of Exeter, 2 Jago, Dr, 191 Jewel, Bishop John, 249 Judhael de Totnes, 130, 226, 228, 295 Kennaway, Sir John, 55 Kenwith Castle, 210 Key, John, 291 Killerton, 29 Kilworthy House, 193 King, R. J., on Dartmoor, 71 Kingsbridge, 141 Kingsley, Charles, 121; description of Clovelly, 214 Kingskerswell, 110 King's Nympton, 239 Kingsteignton, 103 Kings wear, 140 Lake, Thomas, 95 Landslip at Lyme, 67 Lane, John, 28, 150; Richard, 150; Thomasine, 28; Mr, 150 Lechlade, Walter de, 56 Leofric, first Bishop of Exeter, 3 Ley, W., 95 Library, ancient, in Exeter Cathedral, 4; in Crediton Church, 37 Lloyd, Temperance, 209 Lomene, William de, 307 Longstone, the, 266 Ludlow, Sir Henry, 292 Lundy Island, 245 Lyde, Robert, 42 Lydford, 82 Lydford Gorge, 84 Lynmouth, 259, 260 Lynton, 259 Marwood, Dr, 68 Mary Tavy, 196 Massie, General, 22, 23 Merivale, Samuel, 175 Mohun, Lord, 52; John, 298; Sir Reginald, 69; Richard de, 107; Sir William, 69 Mohun arms, 52 Moles, Mules, Isabella de, 287; Nicholas de, 110 Molesworth, Colonel, 292 Monk, George, Duke of Albemarle, 33, 69, 232; Sir Thomas, 232 Moore, Major, 24 Moretonhampstead, 92 Morisco, Sir William de, 247 Morton, Cardinal, 29 Morwellham, 199 Morwell Rocks, 199 Mules, see Moles Mozley, Rev. ——, 28 National Debt, origin of the, 101 Newcomb, John, 8 Newenham Abbey, 69 Newton, John, 291 Newton Abbot, 102 Newton St Cyres, 41 Norden, John, 8 North, Lord, and cider tax, 51 Northcote, Galfridus de, 309; Sir Henry, 309; John, Sir John, 122, 309, 310, 312, 313; Walter, 309 Oare, 265 Ogham inscription at Tavistock, 180 Okehampton Castle, 296 Okey, Colonel, 98 Oldbarrow Camp, 261 Orange, William, Prince of, 113 Osey, Thomas, 37 Otter River, 47 Otterton, 60 Ottery Mohun, 52 Ottery St Mary, 55 Ottery St Mary Church, 56 Oxenham, William, 238 Paignton, 110 Parker, William, 162 Parracombe, 254 Paynel, Fulke, 306 Peeke, Captain Richard, 185 Penruddocke, ——, 12; Colonel, 240 Peryam, William, 36 Peter Tavy, 196 Peverell, Hugh, 27 Pickering, Colonel, 58 Pilchard fishery, 161 Pilgrim Fathers, the, 171 Pim, John, 184 Pinhoe, Danish fight at, 3 Pixies, the, 86 Pixies' House, 82 Pixies' Parlour, 100 Plumleigh, Captain, 248 Plymouth, 155 Plympton, 177 Plymtree, 28 Pole, Alice de la, 295 Polglas, William, 128 Pollard, Hugh, Sir Hugh, 139, 211, 239, 269, 312; Sir Lewis, 291; Sir Richard, 296 Pollock, Sir F., on Dartmoor, 71 Poltimore, 31 Poltimore, Lord, 32 Pomeroy, Pomerai, Sir Edward, 288; Henry de, 182, 285, 287; Ralph de la, 287; Sir Thomas, 288 Porter, Endymion, 124 Portledge, 212 Potheridge, 232 Potter, Barnabas, 126 Powderham Castle, 272 Prawle Point, 145 Prayer-Book riot, 38 Priests' hole, a, 299 Princetown, 84 Pynes, 308 Pynho, Sir Robert de, 148 Quivil, Bishop Peter, 5 Raleigh, John de, 252; Sir Walter, 60, 80, 128, 133, 153, 203, 204 Rame, Thomas, 7 Rattenbury, Jack, 65 Rattery, 126 Reay, Samuel, 17 Redvers, Baldwin de, 4, 15; Mary de, 15; Richard de, 14; William de, 14 Reidesel, Baroness of, 30 Revel, the, at Kingsteignton, 103 Reynell, Lieut, 30 Richmond, Henry, Earl of, 7; Margaret, Countess of, 231 Robin, Mr, 11 Rodge, James, 49 Roope, Mr, 153 Rougemont Castle, Exeter, 4 Rugglestone, the, 76 Russell, Lord, 9, Rev. John, 20, 236; John, 182; William Lord, 184 St. Leger, Sir John, 7, 152 Salcombe, 144 Salkeld, Captain, 248 Saltram, 177 Sampford ghost, the, 26 Sampford Peveril, 26 Sandridge, 132 Schorne, Sir John, 145 Screen at Plymtree, 28 Seaton, 66 Sexton, Mary, 203 Seymour, Colonel, 153, 211, 289, 290; Edward, Sir Edward, 116, 139, 286, 288, 289, 292, 293 Shapcote, Colonel, 46 Shebbeare, Dr, 209 Sheeps Tor, 81 Shute, 69 Sidmouth, 64 Silver mines at Combe Martin, 251 Simon, son of Roger, 307 Slapton Sands and Lea, 151 Slee, George, 16 Smuggling, 65 Snell, John, 149 Snowdon, Thomas, 95 Soffewill, Walter de, 307 South Molton, 239 South Tawton, 237 Speare, William, 94 Splatt, Hannah, 96 Sprigg, Joshua, 58 Stafford, Hugh, 309 Stanhope, Anne, 288 Stannary Parliament, 78 Stapleton, Bishop Walter de, 5 Starcross, 42 Starre, John, 66 Start Point, 151 Stevenstone, 231 Stonerows, etc., on Dartmoor, 74 Stonehouse, 157 Stonehouse, Joel de, 157 Storm at Widecombe, 80 'Stout Cripple of Cornwall, the,' 283 Strangwich, George, 192 Strode, William, 311 Stucley, Stukeley, Sir George, 238; Sir Lewis, 218; Thomas, 238 Suffolk, Duke of, 54 Sully, Sir John, 36 Superstitions on Dartmoor, 85; at Whitstone, 96 Sutton, James, 94 Sydenham, 298 Talbot, Sir Gilbert, 22 Tavistock, 179 Tavy Cleave, 197 Tawstock, 228 Teign, the, 89 Teignmouth, 103 Tenure, curious, 269 Thackeray, W. M., at Ottery, 59 Thomas, Grace, 210 Thurlestone, 147 Tiddecomba, Walter de, 307 Tin trade on Dartmoor, 77 Tiverton, 14 Toby, Tryphena, 141 Tongue token, a, 305 Topsham, 41 Tor Abbey, 107 Torbay, 106 Tor Cross, 151 Torner, Major, 139 Torquay, 106 Torridge Castle, 231 Torrington, 228 Totnes, 129 Tourville, Admiral de, 104 Tracy, William de, 221 Trelawny, Rebecca, 40 Tremayne, Andrew, 301, 302, 303; Edmund, 302, 305; Nicholas, 301, 302, 303; Thomas, 300 Trembles, Mary, 209 Trenchard, Isabella, 300; Sir Thomas, 182 Tuckers' Hall, Exeter, 10 Tuckfield, John, 36 Ugbrooke, 100 Valletort, Reginald de, 160 Valley of Rocks, 258 Vane, Sir Henry, 293 Venton House, 126 Vere, Sir Francis, 135 Wade, Major, 257 Wagstaff, Sir Joseph, 240 Waldron, John, 16, 19; Richard, 19. See also Walrond Wallabrook, the, 89 Waller, Sir Hardress, 225; Sir William, 290 Walrond, Walerond, Sir Henry, 307; Richard, 306; Sir William, 307. See also Waldron Walsingham, Sir Francis, 135 Warbeck, Perkin, at Exeter, 7 Wardlaw, Colonel, 174 Warelwast, Bishop William, 5 Weare, Colonel, 22 Webber, Will, 116 Wesley, Samuel, 19 Westward Ho, 212 Whiddon, John, 147 White ale, 143 White bird of the Oxenhams, 237 Whitstone, 93 Whittle, John, 113 Wichehalse, Hugh, 257; John, 257, 258; Mary, 258; Nicholas, 257 Widdecombe-in-the-Moor, 80 Wilford, Sir William, 162 William the Conqueror besieges Exeter, 4 Wise, Arabella, 305; Sir Edward, 299, 305 Wistman's Wood, 76 Witchcraft, 209, 268 Witches' Stone near Honiton, 55 Woggan, Captain, 98 Wolcot, Dr John, 143 Woodbury Castle, 45 Woolacomb Tracey, 221 Worthy, Geoffrey de la, 287 Wrey, Sir Bourchier, 228, 245 Wright, Jacob, 96 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 54 Wynfrith, St, 35 Yonge, Walter, Sir Walter, 55, 310 Young, William, 248