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LETTERS via Exeter, which is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office. There is a ~V ALL LETTER Box, at Lower Shillingford, cleared at 6.45 p.m. Bradford Robert, joiner Lear John, farmer Sa vile Hev Bourchier Wrey, M.A. The L1.vers James, blacksmith Lear \Yilliam, farmer Rectory

SHOBROOKE, a parish and village in the vale of the small river Creedy, 2t miles E.N .E. of Crediton, is in Crediton union, county court district and petty sessional diyision, "\Vest Budleigh hundred, Northern d'ivision of the county, Exeter arcbdeaconry, and Cadlmry mral deanery. It had 626 inhabitants (316 malm~, 310 females) in 1871, living in 140 houses, on 3835 acres of land. J. H. Hippisley, Esq., J.IJ., owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manors of Shobrooke and Little Fulford, the latter of which extends into Crediton parish. He has a handsome seat here, called Shobrooke Park. The mansion was built by the lats R. Hippisley Tuckfield, Esq., who pulled down the old house, built by Sir ~Villiam Periam, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The park is well wooded, and stocked with deer. ~V. C. Cleave, Esq., owns part of West Raddon estate, and several smaller freeholders have estates in the parish. Part of \Vest Raddon belonged to the vVestcote family; and Thomas \Vestcote, the antiquary, was born there in 1567, and was buried at Shobrooke about 1640. His 'View of Devonshire' was edited and published in 1845 by the Rev. Geo, Oliver, D.D., and Pit man J ones, Esq. ; but it is confined chiefly to the descent of manors and the pedigrees of families. The CHURCH (St. Swithun ), an ancient structure, with a tower containing six bells, is in a very dilapidated condition, but steps are being taken to restore it. The rectory, which up to 1860 had been annexed to the Bishopric of Exeter for more than 200 years, is valued in K.B. at £36. The glebe is 25 acres, and the tithes were commuted in 1841 for £580 per annum. The rectory house was built about 18 years ago. The present rector is the Rev. G. I. ~Vallas, M.A. 'l'he living is in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter. Here is a small parochial school. The poor have £3 8s., and the schoolmaster £1 12s. yearly from the dividends of £200 Three per Cent. Stock, purchased with various benefactions. For teaching poor children the schoolmaster has also a yearly rent-charge of £3, left by l\Iary Trenchard in 1728, out ofland at Shobrooke and Crediton. Elizabeth Tuckfield, in 1802, left .£10 a year to the poor ofShobrooke (see Crediton), and they have also the dividends of £142 17.s. 1d. Three per Cent. Stock, purchased with £90, left by Lydia Hunt, in 1804. PosT O~'FICE at Mr. N. ~V. Slnde's. Letters are received at 7 a.m. from and despatched at 6 p.m. to Crediton, which is the nearest Money Order Office. Badcock John, wheelwright Helmore }'rederick, farmer, Lower Reed George, farmer, Hill Barrington Robert, farmer, Shobrooke Rewe; and auctioneer, Cowley Searlfl Robert, farmer, West Efford Barton Herring 'Villiam, farmer, Trew farm Selclon Thomas, blacksmith Bissell Frank, Lutcher Hippisley J olm Henry, Esq. J.P. Sharlanu John, farmer and miller Butler Hon. James Fitzwalter, J.P. Sho Lrooke park Shelley Lady, Shobrooke park The Sanctuary Hoscgoocl James, blacksmith Shelley Sir John, J.P. Shobrooke park Cade Hy. jun. farmer, Lower Wyke H uggins George, farmer, Y endacott Slade George, farmer, Bridles cottage Cavill Robert, farm bailiff, Uppingcott Huggins James, farmer, Moore Slade IIenry William, tailor, parish Congdon Robert, gamekeeper, Park J ames Henry, farmer, Higher Rewe clerk, and postmaster Dadd Richard, farmer, Wyke James "William, sexton and thatcher Slacle l~Ir 'V m. sen. Reeds cottage Fleming Richard, carpenter, Raddon Lane Robert, farmer, Great Gutton Slade 'Villiam, builder, assistant over­ Fey J obn, carpenter Manning Andrew, head gardener seer, and victualler, Red Lion Flood Miss Ann, Zephyr cottage Morrish William, butcher Smith William & Mrs J ane, National Floyd Aaron. blacksmith New berry "\V m. baker & shopkeeper school teachers Grcenslade William, frmr. Fitzgrove Norrish Edwarcl, farmer, Efford Tuckett Wm. scn. fmr. "\Vest Raddon Harwood John Carter, farmer, ·wood Pearce John, fmr. Hgr. & Lwr. Shute Wallas Rev ·Gilbert Innes, lt'I.A., farm Pook GeorgP, carpenter rector, The Rectory

SHUTE, a parish of scattered houses, 3 miles N.E. of Colyton, 3 miles W. of Axminster,.and 24 E. of Exeter, is in Axminster union, county court district, petty sessional division, Colyton hundred, Eastern division of the county, Exeter archdeaconry, and Dunkeswell and Honiton rural deanery. It had 747 in­ habitants (370 males, 377 females) in 1871, living in 140 houses, on 2738 acres of land. The parish includes the village of JVhitjurd, a mile S. of the church, and 1 t mile N.E. of Colyton. Sir "'Wm. Edmund Pole, Rart., is lord of the manor, and resides at SHUTE HousE. Shute l'ark, which is extensive and stocked with deer, has a larger and handsome mansion, mostly rebuilt by Sir John \Villiam Pole, Bart., about 1790, the ancient house being then fast falling into decay. The plan of the building is a square centre, with two uniform wings connected by corridors. The manor of Shute was anciently held by a family of its name, and afterwards by the Pynes, Bonvilles and Greys. It was purchased of Lord Petre, in 1787, by Sir J. \V. Pole. Leland calls Shute Park 'a ri~ht good manor place of the Marquis of Dorset,' which before had long been J:he seat of the Bonvilles. Sir ~Villiam Pole, the learned antiquary, settled it on his eldest son in 1628, during his father's lifetime; and it has ever since been the seat of his family. A fair for pleasure is held at Whitford on the 1\Ionday before 1\lichaelmas-day. The CHURCH (St. 1\IichaelJ is an ancient structure with a tower rising fwm the centre and containing five bells. It has f!everal handsome monuments of the Poles, one of which has a fine white mal'ble statue of Sir William Pole in full dress, as master of Queen Anne's household; there is also a tablet to C. B. Templer, Esq., who perished in the 'Halsewell,' East Indiaman, in 1786. The chancel was restored in 1863, and the interior was renovated and reseated in 1869, the cost being defrayed by rate and subscription. The living, a vicarage fprmerly annexed as a chapelry to Colyton, but separated therefrom in 1860-is in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and incumbency of the Hev. Thomas Cole. The yicarial tithes are commuted at .£180; bnt the