Identifier: devoncornwallnot112amer_0 (find matches)
Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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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s dayto call a man a dog is to insult him. The reason is thatthe Scriptures set the standard of opinion, and in both the Oldand the New Testaments a dog is always referred to as anobject of loathing and contempt. It is only in the apocryphalbook of Tobit that he appears as the associate of his master. The Jews seem to have been alone in their ungraciousattitude. The Avesta and other sacred writings in Persia andIndia, inculcate the greatest kindness and reverence towardsthe dog, whose sagacity, vigilance, and fidelity are regarded asthe pillars of pastoral society. The Greek poets have manyaccounts of dogs, none better known or more affecting thanthe story of Argus, the dog of Ulysses, who was the onlycreature that recognized him after his long absence. To return to the carving. The knight has the visor of hishelmet down, and is brandishing a sword, part of which isbroken away. His shield is of the usual triangular pattern. There are portraits on the terminals, used in a decorative 34
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THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. manner so as to fill the scroll. Again they are citizens; theman wears a hood and his wife head-dress and gorget. It maybe assumed that these are portraits of the donors. On the background is the device of concentric circles towhich I have already referred. The circles are in diametertwo inches and one inch respectively. Putting the Weight (No. 28). Of actual scenes from life there are only three examples.No. 28 shows a man putting the weight. In StruttsSports and Pastimes it is mentioned that this was a favouriteamusement in the twelfth century, and the attention of thepopulace was so much engaged by this kind of exercise thatthey neglected in great measure the practice of archery,which occasioned an edict to be passed in the thirty-ninth yearof Edward III., prohibiting the pastimes of throwing stones,wood and iron, and recommending the use of the long bowupon all convenient opportunities. (Book II., Ch. II., s 6). The figure is very spirited, the

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