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Genre/Form: | Biography History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924. Devonshire characters and strange events. London, New York, J. Lane, 1908 (OCoLC)656589590 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
S Baring-Gould |
OCLC Number: | 384036 |
Description: | xv, 813 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits 23 cm |
Responsibility: | by S. Baring-Gould, M.A. With 55 full-page illustrations reproduced from old prints, etc. |
Table of Contents:
Hugh Stafford And The Royal Wilding 1 The Alphington Ponies 16 Maria Foote 21 Caraboo 35 John Arscott, Of Tetcott 47 Wife-Sales 58 White Witches 70 Manly Peeke 84 Eulalia Page 95 James Wyatt 107 The Rev. W. Davy 123 The Grey Woman 128 Robert Lyde And The "Friend's Adventure" 136 Joseph Pitts 152 The Demon of Spreyton 170 Tom Austin 175 Frances Flood 177 Sir William Hankford 181 Sir John Fitz 185 Lady Howard 194 The Bidlakes, of Bidlake 212 The Pirates of Lundy 224 Tom D'Urfey 238 The Bird of the Oxenhams 248 "Lusty" Stucley 262 The Bideford Witches 274 Sir "Judas" Stukeley 278 The Sampford Ghost 286 Philippa Cary And Anne Evans 292 Jack Rattenbury 301 John Barnes, Taverner And Highwayman 320 Edward Capern 325 George Medyett Goodridge 332 John Davy 351 Richard Parker, The Mutineer 355 Benjamin Kennicott, D.D. 369 Captain John Avery 375 Joanna Southcott 390 The Stoke Resurrectionists 405 "The Beggars' Opera" and "Gay's Chair" 414 Bampfylde-Moore Carew 425 William Gifford 436 Benjamin R. Haydon 457 John Cooke 478 Savery And Newcomen, Inventors 487 Andrew Brice, Printer 502 Devonshire Wrestlers 514 Two Hunting Parsons 529 Samuel Prout 564 Fontelautus 581 William Lang, of Bradworthy 594 William Cookworthy 600 William Jackson, Organist 608 John Dunning, First Lord Ashburton 618 Governor Shortland and The Princetown Massacre 633 Captain John Palk 700 Richard Weekes, Gentleman at Arms and Prisoner in the Fleet 709 Steer Nor'-West 718 George Peele 726 Peter Pindar 737 Dr. J. W. Budd 754 Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, Bart. 772
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