Birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh, East Budleigh near Exmouth, .. ([1848?])

Volo Non Valeo. [Gibbons, Maria S.] "We Donkeys" in Devon. Exeter: Henry S. Eland; London: Hamilton, Adams , & Co, 1885. pp. 12 - 13.Leaving the Vicarage behind us, we soon reached Hayes Barton, the birthplace of the great Sir Walter Raleigh. We have already said that "Barton" simply means "Manor," and the derivation of "Hayes," a name so constantly met with in Devon, is not far to seek. Hay, a word now obsolete, which was derived from the Saxon "Haeg," a hedge, gives an easy solution-land "hedged in" from the surrounding moorland.It appears as if Walter, the father of the great Sir Walter, was the first member of the family who settled at Hayes. It is supposed that he came there to economise. The sixteenth and nineteenth centuries have, at least, this in common: It is not unusual to meet with people who from some cause find their income inadequate, and therefore are obliged to retrench. The first wife of Walter Raleigh was Joan Drake, whose brother was father to the founder of "Drake's Charity." Walter Raleigh married three times; his third wife was the widow of Otho Gilbert, of Compton, daughter of Sir Philip Champernown, of Modbury. She was the mother of Sir Walter, who was born at Hayes. The room in which he first saw the light is by the kind courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, who reside at the farm, still to be seen.Looking at this quiet spot, who could imagine that the little boy who spent his boyhood playing about the peaceful homestead would have lived so strange and varied a life? and yet the shadows cast from Hayes' Wood, that so often must have fallen upon him, might he looked upon as a curious prophetic warning of the shadows that would come between him and the sun, until prematurely his life went down in shadow. Sir Walter has left an abiding mark in his neighbourhood in the prevalence of the name of "Walter," and, perhaps, also in the fact of the way tobacco is consumed here even by small boys.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

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