DEVONSHIRE. Inserted in It in Memory of General Buyshe ~.The Porch Has Belonging to the Parish

120 CLxST BYOON:. DEVONSHIRE. inserted in it in memory of General Buyshe ~.the porch has belonging to the parish. Here are three almshouses. Rat• a finely-groined roof, and over the ~ntrance is a shield of clyffe House is the seat of Francis Fitzherbert esq. The Rev. arms of St. Clere, quartering Courtenay, Halse and Tidwell: Francis John Huyshe M • .&.. vicar of Wimborne Minster,. there are goo sittings. The register dates from the year who is lord of the manor, and Waiter Wrighi Matthew esq.• 1552. The living is a rectory. average tithe rent-charge Richard Pratt esq. and Mrs. Wybrant are chief landowners. £299, gross yearly value £559, including 8g acres of glebe, The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat,. with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Hughes, and held since barley and oats. The area is x,65o acres; rateable value,: x881 by the Rev. David Meates Hughes. The annual income £2,919; the population in 1891 was 298. Qf the charities is about £42: Dr. Hall, rector of this parish, Parish Clerk, Thomas Pook. lr.ft £15 a year for a schoolmaster and £5 1,1. year for binding PosT OFFICR,-John Daymenli, sub-postmaster. Letters. parish apprentices: the Rev. Francis Huyshe gave a field of arrive from Exeterf via Whimple, at 8 a.m.; dispatched. land, the income to be divided between the schoolmaster and at 4.50 p.m.; no post on sundays. The nearest money the poor labourers : Mr. Henry Pratt left £so, the interest order & telegraph office is at Whimple. Postal orders are· to be given to the indigent poor: £5, the rent of two issued here, but not paid cottages at Farrantshayes, belongs to the church for repairs WALL LKTTER Box, cleared at 5 p.m. week days only. of the fabric: the interest of £1oo, invested in Consols, is National School (mixed), built in x86I, for xoo children;: fpr church expenses; there are also some other moneys average attendance, 56 1 M1ss I<'lorence Wills, mistress Fitzherbert Francis, Ratclyffe house Daniels William, farmer, Marsh j Pratt. Richard, farmer, Farrantshayes Hughes Rev. David Meates, Rectory Dayment John, boot & shoe ma.Post off Pratt Richard, yeoman, Broad Oak. Martin Francis, Ingleby cottage Harris Edwin, wheelwright & carpen~r ::ialter Mark, farmer, Hoop Mathew Charles Pynsent & farmer Searles James, thatcher Pratt Richard, Broad Oak Hole William, carpenter & builder Symes Charles, assistant overseer· Kenwood John, smith Symons Mary (Mrs.).beer retailer COJ\oiMERCIAL. Mathew Charles Pynsent L. R.c. P. LOud. Trude William, farmer, Roach Baker Rboda&. Bertba(Misses),farmers, surgeon,& medical officer,ClystHydon Trump Edward, yeoman, Courtnay~ Osmonds district, St. Thomas union & Broad- Vinnicombe J ames, carpenter Burrow John, farmer, Blampins hembury district, Honiton union 'Vare Albert, butcher Cock Ira, farmer, Hethenhill Parris Ben, farmer, Wright's farm Ware William, butcher & lJoulterer Connett Chas. farmer, Town tenement Parris William, farmer, Perradon • CLYST ST. GEORGE is a village and parish, I! miles "Eccl'iade Clistwick" is valued at£2. The charities, pro east-by-north from Topsham station on the Exmouth branch ducing £6 annually, are distributed in bread. Knowles is of the London and South Western railway, 5 south-east from the residence of William Clulow Sim esq. J.P. In Domesday Exeter, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Book this manor is called" Clise-wic," and was one of fifty E<tst Budleigb, petty sessional division of Woodbury, union eight manors granted to Ralph de Pomerai by William the: of St. Thomas, county court district of Exeter, rural Conqueror ; the Plantagenet Earls of Cornwall held it in deanery of Aylesbeare and archdeaconry and dioeese of the 13th century, and in the 15th century it was held by Exeter : it is the most southern of the six Clyst parishes, in William rst Baron Bonville, who was beheaded by Queen· the valley of the small river Clyst, which falls into the Exe Margarat, after the defeat of the Yorkists at the second at Topsham, and over which there is a stone bridge of tive battle of St. Albans, Feb. 17, 146r: 'fhomas (Grey), 2nd arches. The church of St. George is an ancient building of Marquis of Dorset, and his son Henry, Duke of Suffolk K.G r~d sandstone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of were the next holders ; after the last-named nobleman chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled was beheaded on Tower bill 23rd Feb. 1554, the manor western tower containing a clock and 6 bells : 1757 the passed by grant of the Crown to the Prideaux family, who fabric was repaired and decorated : the church was restored held it for several generations : it was next sold to Peter and reseated with open benches with finely-carved ends in Trosse, and afterwards held by William Fortescue, Thomas 1852: in x888, a new vestry on the north side of the chancel Dupre Porcher, in x8q, and John Creswell in 182r, whose was added, the organ enlarged and oak choir stalls and great nephew, Col. Sir William Hood Walrond bart. lll.P., corridor to the pulpit erected at a cost of £soo: the interior J.P., D. L. is the present holder. The principal landowners walls are decorated with the "Stations of the Cross" in are the Rev. F. Arthur Wolfe Hamilton-Gell M. .&.. of Winslade, relief: the pulpit, inlaid with mosaic, was the gift of Samuel Clyst St. Mary; .Alexander Kelsa Hamilton J.P. of The Parr esq. of Knowle in 1852; the carved oak reredos, with Retreat, Topsham; Antony Gibbs esq. J.P. of Tyntesfield, its painted panels, and the communion table were given by Somerset ; the trustees of the late William Barnes esq. of the parishioners as a memorial to the Rev. Henry Thomas Great Duryard, and Mr. John Drewer Pratt, of Sprat's Ellacombe M.A. late rector, who died July gotb, 1885: all Hayes, Littlebam, Exmouth. The soil is a mixture of clay the windows are stained, and one of these displays the arms and sand ; subsoil, clay and large pebble. The chief crops of John Wynard, who, with Isabella, his wife, erected the are the usual cereals and pasture, beans alone being little.. old east window: in the north aisle is a handsome monu- grown. The area is x,o4r acres of land and 25 of water;. ment to the Gibbs family, dated r652-83 and 1708, and one rateable value, £2,496; the population in 1891 was 291. with arms to Richard Osborn esq. ob. Sept. 6th, 1705 ; there Parish Clerk, William Gibbings, jun. are also monuments to Richard Pidgley. a benefactor to the Sexton, John Potter, jun. parish, d. Oct. rsth, r8o2: on the north wall is a brass with PosT OFFICE.-John ~Tucker, sub-postmaster. Letters the effigy of a lady, in veil and high-crowned bat, kneeling through Topsham, the nearest money order & telegraph before a prie-dieu; on one side is an impaled shield of arms: office, arrive at 7·45 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. Letter Box. and below an inscription to Julian Osborne (nee Bonifaut), cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. ; sunday, 7·45 a.m. ob. Aug. x8, 1614; another brass is inscribed to John Gibbe, only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid ob. Dec. 24, 1504: a lycb-gate was erected in 1867: there Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1859. for 70 children;. are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1567. average attendance, 61; & endowed by the late· Lady Sea- The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £248, gross ward with £go yearly from land; the school bell, inscribecl yearly value £264, with residence and 7i acres of glebe, in "san Roque ora pro nobis ano De, 1788," belonged to- the gift of .Antony Gibbs esq.and held since x885 by the Rev. the Convent of Burni.eo, on the north coast of Spain~ John Lomax Gibbs M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The & was brought home as a trophy by the late late Sir earliest mention of the advowson of the church is in the George Collier, then commanding the "Surveillante";,. "Valor Ecclesiasticus" of Pope Nicholas, 1291, wherein James Rickard, master Farr Rev. Charles James M.A. [curate] Gibbings William, jun. parish clerk Snow Wm. Ralpb, farmer, Poundliving Gibbs Rev. John Lomax M.A. Rectory Hannaford John, farmer,Marsh Barton Steer John Lewis & Harry, builders & Bagger John, Manor cottage Kemble Robert, farmer, Bushes farm farmers, Addlepoole farm Sim William Clulow J.P. Knowle Mair Charles, thatcher Tucker John, shoe maker, Post office Tracey Major Leigh, Pytte Potter John, jun. sexton Warren Jn. miller (water), Marsh mill Vincent Rer. Thomas M.A. The Cottage Pratt Louisa (Mrs.),beer & wine retlr Waye William, shopkeeper ' Shiles James, farmer, Kennyford Williams Albert, head gardener to.. COMMERCIAL. [letters via Clyst St. Mary J William C. Sim esq Cornish Charles, farmer, Court farm Smith William Henry, blacksmith · CLYST ST. J,A WRENCE is a parish and small division. St. Thomas union, county court district of Exeter,. village, 3 miles north-east from Hele station on the Bristol rural deanery of Aylesbeare and archdeaconry and diocese and Exeter section of the Great Western railway, and 3 of Exeter. The church of St. Lawrence is a building of stone miles north-west from Whimpie station on the main line of in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north the South Western railway, 5 south-west from Cullompton porch and an embattled western tower, containing 5 bells : a and 9 north-east from Exeter, in the North Eastern division fine old screen divides the chancel from the nave, and there of the county, Cl,rston hundred, Wonford r;.etty sessional is a stone figure of the Virgin and Child on the north face.

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