A Book of the West. Volume I Devon

Introduction to O'Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 1873, i., p. cccxxix.

20

For a full account of them see Burnard (R.), Dartmoor Pictorial Records. Plymouth, 1893.

21

The Ock (uisg, water) occurs elsewhere. The Oke-brook flows into the West Dart below Huckaby Bridge; and Huckaby is Ock-a-boe. The earlier name of the Blackabrook must have been Ock, for the bridge over it is Okery.

22

Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, 5th edition, p. 232. London, 1678.

23

The author of the tract could not find any parish of Zeal in Devonshire except Zeal Monachorum, where, as he did not know, there were no Oxenhams, and so he converted the hamlet of Zeal in South Tawton, where the Oxenhams were at home, into the Zeal where they were not.

24

Cotton (R. W.), "The Oxenham Omen," in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1882.

25

Prisoners of war staying on parole at Moreton Hampstead.

26

Obituary Notice in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1879. See also that for 1886, pp. 309-15.

27

Bran, pl. bryny, Cornish, a crow.

28

I have told her story in my Historic Oddities and Strange Events. Methuen, 1889.

29

For what follows on the woollen trade I am greatly indebted to a paper by Mr. P. F. S. Amery in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1879.

30

For a memoir of John Dunning, see that by Mr. R. Dymond, in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1876.

31

Bibliographical Catalogue of Early English Literature, 1865, ii. pp. 83-6.

32

Glandfeelde is the same as Glanville; so in the Tavistock register, Grenville is entered as Greenfeelde.

33

Dr. Brushfield has sifted the whole story in the pages of The Western Antiquary, ix., p. 35.

34

The story of John Fitz and of Lady Howard has been worked out very carefully by Mrs. George Radford, to whose paper in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1890, I am much indebted for what follows.

35

A member of the same clan or tribe was buried at Penrhos Llygwyin, Anglesea – "Hic jacet Maccudecheti."

36

Worthy, Devonshire Parishes, 1889, vol. ii., p. 335. Mr. Worthy has worked out the Palk pedigree from extant wills and registers.

37

Windeatt (T. W.), "The Landing of the Prince of Orange," in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1880.

38

Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, 1880, p. 197.

39

Now Lipson.

40

Worth (R. N.), History of Plymouth, 1890, p. 39. I shall quote much from this admirable work, not only full of information, but written in a charming style.

41

Worth.