Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 26Devonshire Press, 1894 - Devon (England) List of members in each volume. |
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Accounts acres Annual appears Ashburton assessed Bishop Brampford Speke Brief Broadun Buckfastleigh buried Canons century Chancel charcoal Church Churston Clist Colyton Committee cooking hole Cornwall Council County Cullompton Dartmoor Devon Devonshire diameter Domesday East Budleigh entrance entries Exeter feet ferlings ffor Forest Geldroll grette Grimspound Harpley hearth held Henry Hist holdings Hundred Rolls hut circles iiijd John iijs inches instituted John Furse King kistvaen land Littleham Lord lugs manor Mary Matthew Mundy menhir Moreshead Otterton Ottery paid parish parishioners Plymouth Plymtree present priest probably R. N. Worth Read at South recorded Rector Register Richard slabs South Molton South Tawton Synod tenants thanes Thomas tithes Torquay Torrington town tyme Vicar Vicarage virgate Visitation wages XX8 wall Wardens William Willm Wonford Hundred Woodbury xls xijd xxs iiijd xxvjs viijd yeres
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Page 15 - Report consists ; that any number of copies less than fifty, or between two exact multiples of fifty, shall be regarded as fifty ; and any number of pages less than eight, or between two exact multiples of eight...
Page 368 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and
Page 216 - ... if he had no children the wife was entitled to one moiety, and he might bequeath the other ; but if he died without either wife or issue, the whole was at his own disposal. The shares of the wife and children were called their reasonable parts ; and the writ de rationabili parte bonorum was given to recover them.
Page 319 - And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground : Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold : Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main...
Page 7 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the British Empire with one another, and with foreign philosophers ; to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 234 - ... christened, together with the names and surnames of their parents, and also the names of all persons married and buried in that parish in the week before, and the day and year of every such christening, marriage and burial; and that done, they shall lay up that book in the coffer as before. And the minister and churchwardens unto every page of that book, when it shall be filled with such inscriptions, shall subscribe their names.
Page 361 - 1663. paid for a warent a honnington for Elezebeth Whittrow for not Comminge to Church . . 00 01 00." c. Excommunication. Instances of this form of "ecclesiastical censure," whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is for the time cast out of the communion of the church
Page 131 - England, by the said grandfather, and his progenitors, and the earls, barons, and other nobles of his said realm, and their ancestors, to inform them, and the people, of the law of God, and to make hospitalities, alms, and other works of charity, in the places where the churches were founded, for the souls of the founders, their heirs, and all christians...
Page 364 - And no whit further must venture ; Since the porter he Will paid have his fee, Or els not one there must enter. Who at a dead lift. Can't send for a gift, A pig to the priest for a roster Shall heare his clarke say, By yea and by nay.
Page 250 - How long he remained in the living is somewhat uncertain, but some light is thrown upon it by a document in Lansdowne MS. 459, entitled " A register of all the churchlivings " in certain named counties, of which Devon is one, " with an account of their actual income, the names of the patrons and incumbents, and the particular characters of many of the latter. It is supposed to have been made about the year 1654, for the use of the Commissioners appointed in the Act for ejecting scandalous, ignorant,...