Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries (Volume 2 (Jan. 1902-Oct. 1903)) - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1151244163 ISBN 13: 9781151244161

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. From the Tavy to the Taw. Tavistock--Old Market Cross --Hermitage of St. John--Inscribed Stones-- A Period of Religious Activity--Tavistock Abbey--Remains of Cross at Peter Tavy--Steven's Grave--Longtimber Tor--Mary Tavy Clam-- Mary Tavy Cross--Forstal Cross--Brent Tor--Lydford--Bra Tor-- Base at Sourton--Cross on Sourton Down--An Ancient Inscription-- Cross formerly at Okehampton--North Lew Cross--Okehampton Park--Cross at Fitz's Well--Pixy-led Travellers--Inscribed Stones at Belstone and Sticklepath. There is much of interest to be seen in and around Tavistock, both from a picturesque and an antiquarian point of view, but one object it formerly possessed it now lacks-- vandalism or carelessness has robbed it of its old market cross. In relating some matters connected with the town, Mrs. Bray in her Tamar and Tavy has a passing reference to it. "William, the first Duke of Bedford," she says, " built a house for the schoolmaster, and gave him a 'little herbgarden,' rent free. Adjoining the same, and then situated within the churchyard, was the school-house belonging to the town; which John, Earl of Bedford, by his deed poll, dated the 6th of Edw. VI., granted for two hundred years with tolls and profits of three fairs, with a court of pypowder, and a weekly market on Fridays, as benefactions. Since which the town has built at its own cost a market-house, where the cross formerly stood." "All which profits and liberties," continues Mrs. Bray, quoting from a survey and valuation of the site of the abbey of Tavistock, made in 1726, "are within the borough of Tavistock, and for the use of the school-master."* Whether we are to gather from this that the town authorities removed the cross when about to build their market-house, or whether it had been destroyed earlier, is not ...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1151244163
• ISBN 13: 9781151244161
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