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
/Silver Pap-boat prepared for the Coming of Shiloh,
presented to Joanna Southcott in June, 1814/ 402
From the original in the collection of A. M. Broadley,
Esq.
/Crib presented to Joanna Southcott in anticipation
of the Birth of the Shiloh by Believers in her Divine
Mission as “A Goodwill Offering by Faith to the
Promised Seed”/ 402
Reproduced from the original print in the collection of
A. M. Broadley, Esq.
/Mr. Gay/ 414
From an old print
/The Grammar School, Barnstaple, where Gay was
Educated/ 416
/Gay’s Chair/ 422
/Bampfylde Moore Carew, “King of the Beggars”/ 426
From an engraving by Maddocks
/W. Gifford/ 436
From an engraving by R. H. Cromek, after a picture by
I. Hoppner, /R.A./
/B. R. Haydon/ 458
From a drawing by David Wilkie
/Captain Cooke, 1824, aged 58/ 478
Drawn, from nature, on the stone by N. Whittock
/The Noted John Cooke of Exeter, Captain of the
Sheriff’s Troop at Seventy-four Assizes for the County
of Devon/ 482
From a lithograph by Geo. Rowe
/Thomas Savery/ 488
/Sketch of Newcomen’s House, Lower Street, Dartmouth,
before it was demolished/ 494
/The Chimney-piece at which Newcomen sat when he
Invented the Steam Engine/ 494
/The Steam Engine, near Dudley Castle./ Invented by
Capt. Savery and Mr. Newcomen. Erected by y^e later,
1712 496
From a drawing by Barney. Reproduced by kind permission
of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.
/Andrew Brice, Printer/ 502
Reproduced by kind permission from a print in the
possession of Dr. Brushfield
/The Wrestling Champion of England, Abraham Cann/ 518
From a drawing
/Rev. John Russell/ 530
Reproduced by permission of the Editor of _Bailey’s
Magazine_
/The Rev. John Russell’s Port-wine Glass, Chamberlain
Worcester Breakfast Service, and Barometer/ 558
Purchased at the sale of his effects in 1883 by Mrs.
Arnull and presented by her to Mr. John Lane, in whose
possession they now are
/Samuel Prout/ 564
From a drawing in the possession of Samuel Gillespie
Prout, Esq.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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