Devonshire Characters and Strange EventsBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Devon (England) -- Biography; Devon (England) -- History
Lithographed by P. Gauci. Pub. Ed. Cockrem
/Maria Foote, afterwards Countess of Harrington/ 22
From an engraved portrait in the collection of A. M.
Broadley, Esq.
/Caraboo, Princess of Javasu,/ _alias_ /Mary Baker/ 36
From an engraving by Henry Meyer, after a picture by E.
Bird
/Mary Wilcocks, of Witheridge, Devonshire,/ _alias_
/Caraboo/ 44
Drawn and engraved by N. Branwhite
/Arscott of Tetcott/ 48
From the picture by J. Northcote, /R.A./
/Old Tetcott House/ 54
/Mariann Voaden, Bratton/ 74
/Mariann Voaden’s Cottage, Bratton/ 74
/A Village “Wise Man”/ 78
/Manly Peeke in his Encounter with Three Adversaries
Armed with Rapiers and Poignards/ 90
/James Wyat/, /ÆTAT./ 40 108
Reproduced from the frontispiece to _The Life and
Surprizing Adventures of James Wyatt, Written by
Himself_, 1755
/Rev. W. Davy/ 124
From an engraving by R. Cooper, after a picture by Wm.
Sharland
/Slanning’s Oak/ 188
From an oil painting by A. B. Collier, 1855
/Frontispiece to “The Bloudie Booke; or the Tragical
End of Sir John Fitz”/ 192
/Lady Howard/ 194
/Bidlake/ 212
/Thomas D’Urfey/ 238
From an engraving by G. Virtue, after a picture by E.
Gouge
/Frontispiece to “A True Relation of an Apparition,”
etc., by James Oxenham/ 248
/John Rattenbury, of Beer, Devonshire, “The Rob Roy of
the West”/ 302
From a lithograph
/Edward Capern, the Postman-Poet of Devonshire/ 326
From a painting by William Widgery, in the Free
Library, Bideford
/Charles Medyett Goodridge in his Seal-skin Dress/ 332
/Richard Parker/ 356
From a drawing by Bailey
/B. Kennicott/, /S.T.P./ 370
From the portrait at Exeter College, Oxford
/Captain Avery and his Crew taking one of the Great
Mogul’s Ships/ 376
From a drawing by Wm. Jeit
/Joanna Southcott/ 390
Drawn from life by Wm. Sharp
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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