[18] Ashworth: "The Ancient Manor House of Wear Gifford," in Trans. of the Exeter Diocesan Architect. Soc., vol. vi., 1852.
[19] Introduction to O'Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 1873, i., p. cccxxix.
[20] For a full account of them see Burnard (R.), Dartmoor Pictorial Records. Plymouth, 1893.
[21] The Ock (uisg, water) occurs elsewhere. The Oke-brook flows into the West Dart below Huckaby Bridge; and Huckaby is Ock-a-boe. The earlier name of the Blackabrook must have been Ock, for the bridge over it is Okery.
[22] Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, 5th edition, p. 232. London, 1678.
[23] The author of the tract could not find any parish of Zeal in Devonshire except Zeal Monachorum, where, as he did not know, there were no Oxenhams, and so he converted the hamlet of Zeal in South Tawton, where the Oxenhams were at home, into the Zeal where they were not.
[24] Cotton (R. W.), "The Oxenham Omen," in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1882.
[25] Prisoners of war staying on parole at Moreton Hampstead.
[26] Obituary Notice in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1879. See also that for 1886, pp. 309-15.
[27] Bran, pl. bryny, Cornish, a crow.