Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
by Rosalind Northcote
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About this eBook
- Author
- Northcote, Rosalind, 1873-1950
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Dave Morgan, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Devon (England)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22485
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22485
- Release Date
- September 1, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.DEVON — ITS MOORLANDS, STREAMS, & COASTS
- 2.BY LADY ROSALIND NORTHCOTE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AFTER FREDERICK J. WIDGERY
- 3.Preface
- 4.Contents
- 5.Illustrations — Devon
- 6.Exeter
- 7.The Exe — RELATION — BOY, — FLAMES OF FIRE.
- 8.The Otter and the Axe — James Rodge of Honiton in ye County of Devonshire (Bonelace Siller) Hath given unto the Poore of Honinton P'ishe The Benefytt of £100 for ever. Who deceased ye 27 of July A'o. Di. 1617. Ætate suæ 50. Remember ye poore.
- 9.Dartmoor — THE FOREST OF THE DARTMOORS.
- 10.The Teign — ' Account of Barley bought for the use of the Poor. — Nicholas Bussell , 46 years clark Heere dyed xix Feb. 1631. — THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS.
- 11.Torbay — THE BELGICK BOAR.
- 12.The Dart — 'the Queen's Speech. — 'The Queen's Reason.
- 13.Kingsbridge, Salcombe, and the South Hams — 'A CURE FOR STAUNCHING BLOOD.
- 14.The Three Towns
- 15.The Tamar and the Tavy
- 16.The Taw and the Torridge — SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE'S FAREWELL.
- 17.Lundy, Lynmouth, and the Borders of Exmoor — LYN-CLEAVE.
- 18.Castles and Country-Houses — A MAN OF SUCH ENDOWMENTS AS ADDED LUSTRE TO HIS WHOLE ANCESTRY, COMMANDED REVERENCE FROM HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND STANDS THE FINEST PATTERN TO POSTERITY. — THE SENATE, THE BULWARK OF THE ENGLISH LIBERTY, IN WHICH HE PRESIDED FOR SEVERAL YEARS, FOUND HIS ELOQUENCE AN ADVOCATE, HIS INTEGRITY A GUARDIAN, HIS VIGOUR A CHAMPION FOR ITS PRIVILEGES.
- 19.List of Authorities Consulted
- 20.Index — FOOTNOTES
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