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" To all these there be divers witnesses, both Squires and ladies, whose names are engraven upon the stone : this stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened. "
Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science ... - Page 231
by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1882
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Dartmoor, a descriptive poem, with notes by W. Burt

Nicholas Toms Carrington - 1826 - 280 pages
...bird, with a white crest, was seen about the bed before her death." "To all these," he adds, " there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose...stone; this stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened." The monument herein described was intended, it is believed, for the parish...
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The Collected Poems of the Late N.T. Carrington, Volume 1

Nicholas Toms Carrington, Noel Thomas Carrington - 1834 - 340 pages
...bird, with a white crest, was seen about the bed before her death." " To all these," he adds, " there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose...stone; this stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened." The monument herein described was intended, it is believed, for the parish...
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The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake: With Numerous Original ...

John Barrow - Admirals - 1844 - 388 pages
...appeared—to the mother, a sou, two sisters, and some others. " To all these," says Howell, " there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose names are engraven upon the stone." and carried him off. The number of Moors was so great that his companions dared not attempt his rescue....
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Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign: Of Their Gallant ...

John Barrow - Great Britain - 1845 - 540 pages
...bird had appeared — to the mother, a son, two sisters, and some others ; " to all of these there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose names are engraven upon the stone."f It may be feared that poor Oxenham, the subject of this memoir, departed this life without...
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Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 9

William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1846 - 588 pages
...with a white breast was seen about her bed before her death.' " To all these," adds Howell, " there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose...upon the stone. This stone is to. be sent to a town (village ?) hard by Exeter, where this happened. " Were you here, I could raise a choice discourse...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1862 - 568 pages
...Oxenham, the mother of the said John, who died sixteen years since, when such a bird v, itha white brest was seen about her bed before her death.' "To all...ladies, whose names are engraven upon the stone.' " In the Memoirs of Lady fanshawe, a similar example occurs ; and Mr. Kingsley, in Westward Ho! very...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 212

English essays - 1862 - 860 pages
...since, when such a bird with a white brest was seen about her bed before her death.' "To all these thcr be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose...stone. This stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter wher this happcu'd. Wore you here, I could raise a choice discoui * with yon hereupon. So hoping...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 212

Early English newspapers - 1862 - 962 pages
...Oxenhaui, the mother of the said John, who died sixteen years since, when such a bird with a white brest was seen about her bed before her death.' "To all...both squires and ladies, whose names are engraven npon the stone. This stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exettr wher this bappen'd. Wore you here,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1862 - 608 pages
...when such a bird with a. white brest was seen about her bed before her death.' " To all these tlier be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose names are engraven upon the stone.' " In the Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, a similar example occurs ; and Mr. Kingsley, in Westward Ho! very...
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Bygone days in Devonshire and Cornwall, with notes of existing superstitions ...

Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe - 1874 - 300 pages
...since, when such a bird with a white brest was seen about her bed before her death.' 'To all these there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose names are engraven upon the stone.' Then there followed a long list of names. The tradition further states that those who had been ill...
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