Memorials Of Old Devonshire

Snell F. J.

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Memorials of Old Devonshire by F. J. Snell

TitleMemorials of Old Devonshire
Original PublicationUnited Kingdom :Bemrose and Sons,1904.
Series Title[Memorials of the counties of England]
ContentsHistoric Devonshire, by the editor -- The myth of Brutus the Trojan, by R. N. Worth -- The royal Courtenays, by H. M. Imbert-Terry -- Old inns and taverns of Exeter, by R. Dymond -- Affair of the Crediton barns, A.D. 1549, by Chancellor Edmonds -- Gallant Plymouth Hoe, by W. H. K. Wright -- The Grenvilles: a race of fighters, by the Rev. Prebendary Granville -- The author of Britannia's Pastorals and Tavistock, by D. P. Alford -- The blowing-up of Great Torrington church, by G. M. Doe -- Herrick and Dean Prior, by F. H. Colson -- The landing of the Prince of Orange at Brixham, 1688, by T. W. Windeatt -- Reynolds' birthplace, by J. Hine -- French prisoners on Dartmoor, by J. D. Prickman -- Ottery St. Mary and its memories, by Lord Coleridge -- "Peter Pindar": the Thersites of Kingsbridge, by W. T. Adey -- Honiton lace, by Miss Alice Dryden -- The "Bloody eleventh"; with notes on county defence, by P. F. S. Amery -- Jack Rattenbury, the Rob Roy of the West, by M. Adams -- Barnstaple fair, by T. Wainwright -- Tiverton as a pocket borough, by the editor.

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