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)


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DEVONSHIRE
CHARACTERS
AND STRANGE EVENTS

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).

LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMVIII

PLYMOUTH: WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LIMITED, PRINTERS