DIRnCI'ORY.J DEVONSHIRE. PLYMP'iON Sr. M.!URICE. ~31 Scott James, relieving officer & vacci Willcocks John, butcher Donovan Mary (Miss), dress maker natimi officer, North dist. Plympton Williams Charles Francis, timber mer Foster William Henry, miller (water) St. Mary union, & registrar of births chant & saw mills, Earls mills Hearl John, haulier & deaths,No.IPlympton sub-district, Willmott Laura(Mrs. ),dress ma.Fore st Helyer Henry, butcher Plympton St. Mary uniort Y{)ung Men's Institute (Uriab Percy, Hendicott Albert, carrier Singer Manufacturing Co. (Richard caretaker) Hooper William, Old Ring of Bells P.R Go old, agent) Young Women's Christian .Association Luke William Thomas, baker, grocer & Skinner John B. deputy registrar of (Miss Bewes, sec) tea dealer, & post office marriages• Maddick James, market gardener Stamp&Stevens,surgeons,Ridgeway ho Underwood. · Martin Eli, shopkeeper Stamp WIIIiam Da.niel L.R.C.P.Edin. Johns Misses, Priory terrace Morris Arthur Harvey, Hele Arms P.R surgeon, see Stamp & Steven!l Maxwell Mrs. I The Priory Nicholls Charles, carrier ' Stevens Charles Henry L. R.C. P. Lond. Medland George Peters Ed ward Simon, shopkeeper surgeon, see Stamp & Stevens Pearse Henry Pitts Elizabeth (Mrs.), Union inn ·· StanburyBen.oversaer&collectr.of rates Pope Matthew Plympton District Gas Co. Limited Stanbury Henry, wheelwright Sowton Richard (John Harris, manager) · Stevens & Taylor, cabinet makers Stone Richard, Old Priory Selden George, painter & paperhanger Taylor William, cabinet maker, see Swan J a.mes Henry Temple Claude, grocer Stevens & Taylor Wood Mrs. Old Priory Triscott William, builder Triscott Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper "COMMERCIAL. Willcocks Richard, boot maker WaTne William, corn & forage dealer Arthurs William, boot maker Worth Ann (Mrs.), shQpkeeper - White Mary (Mrs.), ironmonger Crews & Crews, malts.ters Worth Mary Gertrude (Miss), dress ma PLYMPTON ST. MAURICE (otherwise PLYMPI'ON the proprietor and medical superintendent. A cattle market ERLE) is a small market town and parish, half a mile south is held the first Monday in each. month. Sir Joshua Rey by-east from Plympton station on the South Devon section nolds, elected president of the Royal Academy at its first of the main line of the Great Western railway, 4& miles establishment, was born here r6th July, 1723, his father, a south-west from Exeter, 5 north-east-by-east of Plymouth clergyman, being then master of the Plympton Grammar and '-~37 from London, in the Southern division of the county, School : on the foundation of the Royal Academy in :1:768, Plympton hundred, Ermington and Plympton petty he was chosen president and knighted; in 1773 he was sessional division, union of Plympton St. Mary, county court elected mayor of Plympton and received from the University district of East Stonehouse, rural deanery of Plympton, of Oxford the honorary degree of D. c. L. and in 1783 became archdesconry of 'fotnes and diocese of Exeter. Plympton principal painter to the king ; he died at his house in derives its name from the river Plym, the estuary of which Leicester square, London, 23rd February, 1792, and was is now 2 miles distant, but was in ancient times much buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. . . nearer ; it was one of the ancient fltannary towns and was Plympton Castle, situated north of Lhe town, was built by made a borough by charter from Bald win de Redvers, j'th Richard de Abrincis or de Redvers, rst Earl of Devon, iri the Earl of Devon, in March, 1241, subsequently confirmed by reign of Hen. I. ; it was sometime the seat of the Earls of Edw. I. Rich. II. Hen. V. Hen. VI. and later monarchs, in· Devon, and in Domesday Book is spoken of as " terra rertis," eluding Elizabeth, Jas. II. and William and Mary; its or part of the king's demesne. In the reign of Stephen, municipal character was maintamed until 1859, when the Bald win de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon, espousing tbe cause charter, which conferred no exclusive jurisdiction, as against of the Empress Maud, fortified the castle against the king, the county, was allowed to lapse. The Corporation con but was compelled to surrender without any active resist sisted of a mayor and 9 other aldermen, an indefinite ance ; during the Civil war it served as the head quarters number of freemen, bailiff, recorder, town clerk and sub of Prince Maurice during the siege of Plymouth in 1~3, but ordinate officers. The borough returned two members to in 1644 was captured by the Earl of Essex; the remains Parliament from 23 Edw. I. (1294-5) up to the passing of consist chiefly of a mound on which linger some fragments the Reform Act of 1832, and amongst these are found the of the keep, situated at the eastern end of the inner court. names of Serjeant Hele, Williarn Strode, one of the famous The earth works are in good preservation, and preserve, if "five members" in the reign of Chas. I. Sir Nicholas not the actual vallum, at least the- outline of the Roman Slanning kt. ( 1639), Sir John Maynard kt. Sir Christopher camp which preceded the later fortifications. The Earl of Wren (r685) and Lord Castlereagh. The church, anciently Morley P.c., D. L., J. P. is lord of the manor of Plympton. a chapel appendant to the Priory of Plyrnpton St. Mary and Pollexfen Colmore Copleston Radcliffe J.P who is lord of the dedicated to St. Thomas of C.anterbury, was rebuilt in 1440 manor of Plympton Grange, Vice-Adm. Alexander Buller and rededicated to St. Maurice in the reign of Henry VIII. : c.B., ~.P, and Mr. Arthur Mudge are the principal land it is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consist owners. The soil is shale and clay; the subsoil is principally ing of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing a dock and 6 bells, the first three clay. The area is 2o6 acres; rateable value, £3,262 i ·the and the fifth dating from 1768, the fourth was re-cast in population in 1891 was 1,139. Parish Clerk, Robert Andrews. • 1735, and the tenor wa~ re-cast in the parish in 1833: there • are nine memorial windows and several mnral tablets : the Police Station, sergeant in charge, John Flew,& 2 constables church was thoroughly restored in 1879, at a cost of £2 ooo, 1 PosT, M. 0. & 'f. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. defrayed by public subscription, and now affords 340 sit f.ings. The register dates from the year r6r6. The Jiving John Cook, postmaster. Delivery of letters, 7.30& 11.30 is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £44, gross yearly value £130, a. m. & 3.20, 5·45 & 9 p.m. ; letters dispatched, 8.40, 9.50 including 14 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of &; II.15 a.m. & 12.50, 2.15, 2.40, 4·$0, 5.15, 6.50,. 7.10. the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since r 876 by the 8.30 & IO p.m " Rev. Henry Tubal Hole M.A. of Corpns Christi college, HOURS OF ATTRNDANCE.-For sale of postage stamps', regis Oxford. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic chapels and tration of letters &c. week days, 7 a. m. to 9 p.m. ; ··sun several small charities, amounting to about £r8 yearly. day!'l, 7 to 10 a. m. Postal order business, week days, 7 The ancient Town Hall is now leased by the representatives a. m. to 9 lp.m. Money order & savings ·bank,· govern of the old Corporation and is used for lectures and concerts : ment annuity & insurance business & issue of Iicehces, it formerly contained a portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, week days, 9 a. m. to 6 p.m. ; saturdays, 9 a.m. to ·8 p.m. painted by himself, but this was sold by the Corporation in Telegraph business, week days, 8 a. m. to 8 p.m. ; sun4ays~ 1832 to the Earl of Egremont, for a sum of £rso. 'rhe 8 to 10 a.m insignia of the defunct Corporation includes three maces and PosT 0FFICE.-John Jago, sub·postmaster. Letters dis a common seal ; the three maces, which date from the patched 8.1o, 9.30 & 11.45 a.m. & 1.20, 4.10 & 6.40 p.m. latter part of the Stuart penod, are of copper gilt, 2 feet 6 On sunday the dispatch is only at 8.xo a.m · inches in length and precisely similar in every respect; the shafts are plain, banded with projecting belts of foliaged WALL LETTER Box cleared at 8.20 & 9·5 a.m. r2 noon &. work, and terminating in foot knops, adorned in like man 1.5o, 4.25, 6.40 & 9.30 p.m.; sundays, 8.30 a. m · ner; the heads are divided into compartments by armless ScHooLs:- winged cherubs, merged into acanthus foliage, and exhibit Grammar School, founded in 1658 by Elize Hele & restored the national badges crowned; from the cresting rise open in 1870 at a cost of £·2,000 : there are six Hele scholarship•, arched crowns, and on the flat top of the heads are the assigned w the most meritorious boys.from the elementary royal arms of the Stuarts ; the borough seal displays the schools of Plympwn & Brixton, & entitling the holders to figure of an eagle rising and is surrounded by a legend of free education at the Grammar school ; a founder's prize the name of the town. Here is a private lunatic asylum, of £xo is annually awarded to the scholar who does best once the residence of the Treby family ; it is a spacious in the yearly examinations ; the curriculum indudes. cer building, licensed for 36 patients ; Charles Aldridge M.D. is tain forms of technical instruction, & there is a chemical
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