Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
DEVONSHIRE CHARACTERS AND STRANGE EVENTS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
YORKSHIRE ODDITIES TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS CURIOUS MYTHS LIVES OF THE SAINTS
ETC. ETC.
G. Clint, A.R.A., pinxt.
Thos. Lupton. sculpt.
MARIA FOOTE, AFTERWARDS COUNTESS OF HARRINGTON, AS MARIA DARLINGTON IN THE FARCE OF “A ROWLAND FOR AN OLIVER” (1824)
BY S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. WITH 55 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED FROM OLD PRINTS, ETC.
O Jupiter!
Hanccine vitam? hoscine mores? hanc dementiam?
TERENCE, Adelphi (Act IV).
S. Baring-Gould
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
HUGH STAFFORD AND THE ROYAL WILDING
THE ALPHINGTON PONIES
MARIA FOOTE
CARABOO
JOHN ARSCOTT, OF TETCOTT
WIFE-SALES
WHITE WITCHES
MANLY PEEKE
EULALIA PAGE
JAMES WYATT
THE REV. W. DAVY
THE GREY WOMAN
ROBERT LYDE AND THE “FRIEND’S ADVENTURE”
JOSEPH PITTS
THE DEMON OF SPREYTON
TOM AUSTIN
FRANCES FLOOD
SIR WILLIAM HANKFORD
SIR JOHN FITZ
LADY HOWARD
THE BIDLAKES, OF BIDLAKE
THE PIRATES OF LUNDY
TOM D’URFEY
THE BIRD OF THE OXENHAMS
“LUSTY” STUCLEY
THE BIDEFORD WITCHES
SIR “JUDAS” STUKELEY
THE SAMPFORD GHOST
PHILIPPA CARY AND ANNE EVANS
JACK RATTENBURY
JOHN BARNES, TAVERNER AND HIGHWAYMAN
EDWARD CAPERN
GEORGE MEDYETT GOODRIDGE
JOHN DAVY
RICHARD PARKER, THE MUTINEER
BENJAMIN KENNICOTT, D.D.
CAPTAIN JOHN AVERY
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
THE STOKE RESURRECTIONISTS
“THE BEGGARS’ OPERA” AND GAY’S CHAIR
BAMPFYLDE-MOORE CAREW
WILLIAM GIFFORD
BENJAMIN R. HAYDON
JOHN COOKE
SAVERY AND NEWCOMEN, INVENTORS
ANDREW BRICE, PRINTER
DEVONSHIRE WRESTLERS
TWO HUNTING PARSONS
SAMUEL PROUT
FONTELAUTUS
WILLIAM LANG, OF BRADWORTHY
WILLIAM COOKWORTHY
WILLIAM JACKSON, ORGANIST
JOHN DUNNING, FIRST LORD ASHBURTON
GOVERNOR SHORTLAND AND THE PRINCETOWN MASSACRE
CAPTAIN JOHN PALK
RICHARD WEEKES, GENTLEMAN AT ARMS AND PRISONER IN THE FLEET
STEER NOR’-WEST
GEORGE PEELE
PETER PINDAR
DR. J. W. BUDD
REAR-ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD CHICHESTER, BART.
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