Lydford, Devon (1810)

Hawksworth (Miss)
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Devon West Country Studies M SC1445
Devon PLY I/S
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SC1445
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1810
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Maton, William George, M.A. Observations relative chiefly to the natural history, picturesque scenery, and antiquities, of the western counties of England, made in the in the years 1794 and 1796. Salisbury: J. Easton, 1797. Vol. I. pp. 304 - 305.LIDFORD is a place of some antiquity, and was once a borough. In the reign of William I. it is said to have been very large and populous, and had one hundred and forty burgesses. The Danes (of whose atrocities there are frequent vestiges in the west of England) committed terrible ravages here in 997. There is a castle at Lidford, which has been used as a prison for offenders against the stannary laws. It is a square building of an unmeaning appearance being without strength or ornament. - The burgesses of this place were excused from sending representatives to parliament propter paupertatem - a plea which the present appearance of it seems to have fairly justified them in making, for it is dwindled into a poor and shabby village.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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147x198mm
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S036. PROUT, Samuel: RELICS OF ANTIQUITY, OR REMAINS OF ANCIENT STRUCTURES IN GREAT BRITAIN.
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1810