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536 :PEVONSHIREl (KELLY's Isabella. de Fortibus, Countess of Devon, temp. Henry IU. dicate the original character of thE\ whole ; the interior has ob. 1292, but it appears probable that the figure was intended very spacious rooms, containing some good family portraits for the Princess Elizabeth,. 5th daughter of Ed ward I. and and a collection of paintings by the old masters: the adjoin wife of Humpb.rey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, ob. 5 May, ing park of upwards of goo acres is well wooded and stocked rgr6 : the nave of the church and one of the aisles were with deer. Powderham Castle has long been the principal erected by Sir William Courtenay and Margaret ( Bonville ), seat of the Courtenays, earls of Devon, who have been seated his wife, aud on the piers are the arms of C.ourtenay, impal- in Devonshire nearly 700 years. one branch of the house ot ing Bonville and Hungerford, with supporters: in the cban- Courtenay were counts of Edessa; another A. D. II50, became eel are memorial windows to Lady Harriet (Pepys), daughter allied to the Royal l<'amily of France, and through this. of Jane Elizabeth, $UO jure countess of Rothes (by her 2nd alliance three members of t.he family occupied the imperial husband, Sir Lucas Pepys bart.) and wife of William, roth throne of Constantinople A. D. 1204: in England the Cour earl of Devon, d. 16 Dec. r8gg, and a fine monument to tenays have been allied to the Bonvilles, Bohuns, Spencers, Lady Elizabeth (Fortescue ), wife of the 1 rth earl of Devon, St. Johns, Talbots, Veres and the royal house of Plantagenet,. d. 27 Jan. r867: there is also a memorial window to Thomas and the name appears in the original list of the order of the. Peregrine Courtenay esq. d. 7 June, r86r, besides other Garter: in the Wars of the Roses they adhered to t.he. stained windows and a carved oak screen: the church was Lancastrian party, and in the reign of Henry VIII. Henry "horoughly restored in r86r, chiefly at the cost of the nth Courtenay, earl of Devon, was created Marquess of Exeter,. earl of Devon, when the chancel was lengthened and the in- bnt this title became extinct in r 556, and that of Earl ot terior re-seated: there are now 16o sittings. The register Devon, assumed to have lapsed at the same time, remamed. of baptisms dates from the year 1575; marriages, 1559 ; dormant until r8gr, when it was revived in favour of burials, 1558. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- William, grd viscount Courtenay, who thereupon became charge £226, gross yearly value £478, including 98 acres of roth earl of Devon. On an eminence in the park is a build glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since r877 by ing called The Belvedere, erected in 1777, and consisting of the Rev. the Earl of Devon M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, three hexagonal towers, 70 feet in height, commanding prebendary of Exeter, and surrogate. Powderham Castle, magnificent views of the surrounding country, the river the seat of the Earl of Devon, standing on the western bank Exe and the English Channel. The Earl of Devon is lord of of the estuary of the Exe, is a structure in various styles, the manor and sole landowner. The soil is loamy, except in erected in the 14th century, by Sir Philip Courtenay, lieu- the higher part of the parish, where the red sand commences. tenant of Ireland: until about the year 1700 it was very The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips, but a large. strongly fortified, and during the civil war was garrisoned portion is permanent pasture. The area is 1,452 acres of for the King; in Dec. r645, it was unsuccessfully attacked land and 495 of water; rateable value, £3,857; the popu by Fairfax, but was taken by Col. Hammond in the follow- lation in 1891 was 203. ing year; the most ancient portion now extant is built of ExwELL, half-a-mile north-west, MELLANDS, I~ north .. limestone, with a mixture of red conglomerate and of a white and BLACK HEATH, half-a-mile north-west, are places here. material locally called '' Exmouth stone: " the castle ap- Parish Clerk & Organist, John Martin Truelo\·e. pears to have originally consisted of a. long parallelogram Sexton, William Godbeer. flanked at different parts of its length by six towers, four of Letters from Exeter through Kenton, arrive at 8 a.m •. which are still standing, and the other two have been rebuilt Ken ton is the nearest money order office & telegraph with brick on the same sites; the fabric has of late years office ar; Starcross been much modernised, but the ancient battlements and National School (mixed), enlarged in x885, for 6o childre:1; windows which have survived the alterations sufficiently in- average attendance, 33; Miss Alice Sage, mistress Devon Rev. The Earl of M.A. [rector & Brown William Thomas, gamekeeper to Powell David Charles, head gardener surrogate & prebendary of Exeter], Octavius Bradshaw esq. Arch lodge to the Earl Powderham rectory Dobell8amuel M. L. accountant, Stew- Pyle Thomas, farmer, Black heath Bradshaw Octavius D.L., J.P. Powder- ard's office, Powderham castle Scott William, boatman to the Earl,. ham castle Drew John Gould, steward to the Earl Boat house Brayley Miss . of Devon & general land agent, Pow- Truelove John Martin, parish clerk &. COMMERCIAL. derham castle; & at rs Queen street, organist Addicott Thomas, farm bailiff to the Exeter Wilson George, clerk of works, Powder- Earl of Devon Mortimer Samuel, farmer, Exwell ham mills PRINCETOWN is a small town in the west quarter of slopes of gorse and heather where the rising ground is dry ; Dartmoor, in the parish of Lydford, and 7 miles east from in parts are large 'pieces of moist peat, not always safe to· Tavistock, with a station, forming the terminus of a branch tread, with pools of water stained a deep brown, which are from Yelverton, on the South Devon section of the Great the sources of rivers and streams of North, South and Western railway; it is in the Western division of the West Devon : the Taw and the Ockment, a tributary of the. county, Roborough hundred, Ta.vistock petty sessional Torridge, flow northward to the Bristol Channel; the 'feign divsion, union and county court district, rural deanery of and the Dart flow to the south-east, reaching the sea above Tavistock, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. and below Torbay ; the Plym flowing to the east of Ply This town was formed about r8o8, soon after Dartmoor mouth, and the Tavy descends to join the Tamar, on the. Prison was built for prisoners of war, and was named after border of Cornwall, issuing in Plymouth Sound. In general,. GeorgeiV. when Prince of Wales, Dartmoor being within the the upper moorland, except where broken by the tors, has a Duchy of Cornwall; several tradesmen and others then dreary and forlorn appearance : there are no trees grow settled here: in r8rr there were as many as g,ooo prisoners ing in the open parts; but Wistman's Wood, a small por of war, besides the guard of soldiery. After the peace tion of a once extensive forest, in the rocky ravine of the. Princetown much declined, until its revival between r8gx West Dart, is a natural curiosity, as the dwarf oaks, forcing and r84r from the working of the granite quarries in Dart themselves through boulders, have their twisted branches moor. The church of St. :Michael and All Angels, a chapel thickly clothed with moss and lichen : the North and South. of ease to St. Petrock's, Lydford, is a plain building of Teign, on the eastern border of Dartmoor, present more granite, consecrated in 1864, and consists of nave, north beauty of scenery. Dartmoor is covered with Druidical porch and a western tower containing one bell; the church remains of mu<;h interest. Dartmoor convict prison, built was built and fitted, together with the parsonage house, by in r8o6, at a cost of £r27,0oo, consists of an extensive French prisoners, and is used by the officers of the neJgh series of buildings constructed principally of granite from bouring prison and surrounding inhabitants : the interior the neighbouring moor: the outer wall. incloses an area of was restored by the Rev. 1\'I. Fuller, late rector: there are about 30 acres; the prison itself comprises five rectangular 400 sittings. The register dates from the year r8o7. £150 buildings, each 300 feet long by 50 broad, and residences for yearly is allowed by Government for the stipend of the cur the governor, deputy-governor and officers: the principal ate, who is appointed by the rector of the par1sh as assistant gateway is formed of huge granite blocks, on which the in curate of Lydford for Princetown; the Rev. Charle..'l L. M. scription " Parcere Subjectis " is cut. Considerable addition. Fenn B.A. has been curate since 1893· The Wesleyan chapel was made to the buildings by the convicts in 1874, and is a stone building seating 230. further extensions have since been made. Here is a good DARTMOOR, extending about 28 miles from north to south hotel, " The Duchy,'' and connected with it is a larg'e privare a-nd 26 miles from east to west, is, on the average, r,2oo house, both affording comfortable quarters for tourists and feet above sea-level, and rises to 2,000 feet in several of its visitors. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales X.G.