OF THE

DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION

FOR

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE,
AND ART.

W. BRENDON & SON, 26, GEORGE STREET.

1876.

All Rights reserved.

The Editor is requested by the Council to make it known to the Public, that the Authors alone are responsible for the facts and opinions contained in their respective papers.

CONTENTS.

Memoir of John Dunning, first Lord Ashburton. R. Dymond, F.S.A. .

Devonshire Tokens, Part III. H. S. Gill

Obituary Notices-The Right Honourable Sir John Taylor Coleridge-
John Augustus Parry-Richard Napoleon Thornton.

First Report of Committee on Devonshire Folk-Lore. R. J. King, M.A.

First Report of Committee on Devonshire Meteorology. Dr. Lake

Historical Sketch of the Parish of Chagford. G. Wareing Ormerod,

M.A., F.G.S.

Fairfax in the West, 1645-46. Paul Q. Karkeek

117

Notes on Recent Notices of the Geology and Palæontology of Devon-

shire, Part III. W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S.

148

The Fauna of Devon, Part XIV.-Birds. E. Parfitt

245

The Ancient Stannary of Ashburton. R. N. Worth, F.G.S.

Sketch of Ashburton and the Woollen Trade. P. F. S. Amery

Coplestone Cross; and a Charter of Eadgar, A.D. 974. R. J. King, м.A.

The Dismissal of Sir Edward Seymour from the Recordership of Totnes

by James II., 1687. Edward Windeatt

Dartmoor. W. F. Collier

The Jurisdiction of the Lord Warden of the Stannaries in the time of

Sir Walter Raleigh. From Original Records. A. H. A. Hamilton, M.A. 380

The Choir Screen of Exeter Cathedral: its Relation to Christian Art,

and the probable use to which it was first put. Rev. J. E. Risk, M.A.

The Ashburton Urn. J. Phillips

Some Anglo-Saxon Boundaries, now deposited at the Albert Museum,

Exeter. J. B. Davidson

311

323

John Ford, Dramatist. R. Dymond, F.S.A., and Rev. Treasurer Hawker,

M.A.

420

Some Old Gravels of the River Dart, between Totnes and Holne Bridge.

W. A. E. Ussher

427

First Report of the Committee on Scientific Memoranda. W. Pengelly,

F.R.S., F.G.8.

434

A Memoir of Bishop Stapledon. Lieut. C. Worthy

The Changes of Exmouth Warren, Part II. J. M. Martin, C.E., F.M.S.

Observations on the Recent Floods in the Dawlish Valley. T. Andrew,

F.G.S.

Queen Henrietta Maria in Exeter, and her escape therefrom. Paul Q

Karkeek

William Cook worthy and the Plymouth China Factory. R. N. Worth,

F.G.S.

St. Boniface and his Correspondence. E. Bishop

Fossil Fish of North Devon. Townshend M. Hall, м.A.

The Justices of the Peace for the County of Devon in the year 1592.

A. H. A. Hamilton, M.A.

Two Ashburton Scholars. Rev. Treasurer Hawker, M.A. (President.)

Jar found at Musbury. P. O. Hutchinson

Devonshire Gleanings from "Notes and Queries," Part I. W. Pengelly,

F.R.S., F.G.S.

Cistercian Houses of Devon, Part II., Buckland. J. Brooking Rowe,

F.S.A., F.L.S.

Cistercian Houses of Devon, Part III., Buckfast. J. Brooking Rowe,

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OFFICERS.

1876-77.

President.

REV. TREASURER HAWKER, м.A.

Vice-Presidents.

P. F. S. AMERY, Esq., PORTREEVE OF ASHBURTON.

BALDWIN J. P. BASTARD, Esq.

A. CHAMPERNOWNE, Esq, M.A., F.G.S. R. DYMOND, Esq., F.S.A.

F. H. FIRTH, Esq.

REV. P. JACKSON, M.A.

R. J. KING, Esq., M.A.
J. ROBINSON, Esq.
J. TOZER, Esq.

J. WOODLEY, Esq.

C. J. FOLLETT, Esq.

R. JARDINE, Esq.

J. B. PAIGE-BROWNE, Esq., M.A.
REV. W. H. THORNTON, B.A.
ROBERT TUCKER, Esq.

REV. C. WORTHY, M.A.

Hon. Treasurer.

E. VIVIAN, Esq., M.A., Torquay.

Hon. General Secretary.

REV. W. HARPLEY, M.A., F.C.P.S., Clayhanger, Tiverton.