Identifier: devoncornwallnot06amer (find matches)
Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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70)is i\ and not miles. On page 72, the sentence Pursuingthe East Dart from Dartmouth we come to Brimpts Wood,etc., should read from Dartmeet, and again lower downin the same paragraph, the Grey Wethers are describedas a Stone Arch instead of a Stone Circle. Theextracts from the Lecture by Dr. E. A. S. Elliot on TheBirds of our Leas and Estuaries is in that authorshappy style and full of interest to all naturalists. Mr. R.Pearse Chopes own contributions comprise a history of theDevonshire Regiment and Territorials, and The EarlyHistory of Devon as told in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, withNotes from other sources, a carefully compiled andvaluable addition to the History of the County. The volumeis well illustrated, the portraits of Lord Northcote, AldermanC. Pinkham, and Mr. R. Pearse Chope, the last from a drawingby Vernon Hill, being particularly felicitous. M. A. 185. Corrigenda.—P. 154, line 29, for grandfatherread ^^-grandfather; p. 158, eight lines from bottom,for 1854 read i860.
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St. Michaels, Honiton—South Doorway. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 193 186. St. Michaels Church, Honiton.—The destruc-tion of this ancient church by fire on Sunday, the 26thMarch, 1911, is a calamity that will be mourned by alllovers of our ecclesiastical antiquities. This interestingbuilding stood on a hill within a mile of the town of Honiton,and tradition says that the selection of the site was due to themachinations of the devil, who removed the materials for itsconstruction to the top of the hill as fast as they werecollected at the foot. But the same story is told of manyof our churches up and down the country, which are builton hill-tops, and particularly of the little church of Chosenin Gloucestershire, where the tradition also says that thename of Chosen was given to it on account of the evilones insistence. It will be found, however, that most ofthe churches and chapels dedicated to St. Michael are builton hill-tops or eminences, and it is known that a smallchape

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