John Northcote was one of the two Knights of the Shire for Devon in the Convention Parliament, the other being the Lord General Monk. The Restoration was gladly welcomed by him, but he 'spoke repeatedly in favour of pardon and amnesty, and when necessity arose, he seems to have confronted the triumphant Cavaliers in debate as boldly as he had met them, or their fathers, in the field.' This was the last Parliament that Sir John sat in. A little later he turned to the West, and spent most of the days that were left him in Devon. List of Authorities Consulted BARING-GOULD (S.): A Book of Dartmoor. BARING-GOULD (S.): A Book of the West. BARING-GOULD (S.): Devonshire Characters and Strange Events. BLOUNT (T.): Tenures of Lands. BLUNDELL'S Worthies, edited by M. L. Banks. BRAY (MRS.): The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy. BRITTON (J.) and BRAYLEY (E. W.): Beauties of England and Wales. BRITTON (J.) and BRAYLEY (E. W.): Devonshire Illustrated. CAMDEN (W.): Britannia. CAREW (BAMPFYLDE MOORE): Life and Adventures. CAREWE (SIR PETER), Dyscourse and Dyscoverye of the Lyffe of, ... collected by John Vowell, als. Hoker, of the Citie of Excester, gent. CARRINGTON (N. T.): Dartmoor. CHANTER (J. F.): A History of the Parishes of Lynton and Countisbury. CHANTER (J. R.): Lundy Island. CHICHESTER (Sir A. P.): History of the Chichester Family. CLEAVELAND (E.): Genealogical History of the Noble and Illustrious Family of Courtenay. CLERMONT (LORD): History of the Fortescues. COTTON (R. W.): Barnstaple and the Northern Part of Devonshire during the Great Civil War. COTTON (W.): An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter. COTTON (W.) and WOOLLCOMBE (H.): Gleanings from Municipal and Cathedral Records of Exeter. DARTMOOR Preservation Association's Transactions. DEFOE (D.): A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain. DEVON Notes and Queries. DEVONSHIRE Association's Transactions. EDMONDS (Chancellor): Exeter Cathedral. EVERITT (W.): Devonshire Scenery. FIENNES (CELIA): Through England on a Side-Saddle in the Time of William and Mary. FOX (S. P.): Kingsbridge and its Surroundings. FREEMAN (E. A.): Exeter. FRIEND (H.): Bygone Devonshire. FROUDE (J. A.): History of England. FULLER (T., D.D.): Worthies of England. GILPIN (W.): Observations on the Western Parts of England. HARDING (W.): History of Tiverton. HARRIS (J. H.): My Devonshire Book. IZACKE (R. and S.): Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter. KELLY'S Directory of Devonshire. KING (R. J.): Sketches and Studies. KINGSLEY (C.): Miscellanies. LELAND (J.): Itinerary. LYSONS (D. and S.): Magna Britannia. MOZLEY (T.): Henry VII, Prince Arthur, and Cardinal Morton. MURRAY'S Handbook of Devon. NORWAY (A. H.): Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall. OLIVER (G., D.D.): History of the City of Exeter. OLIVER (G., D.D.): Lives of the Bishops of Exeter. OLIVER (G., D.D.): Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis.