Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
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Devonshire Characters and Strange Events is by S. Baring-Gould, with 55 full-page illustrations reproduced from old prints. The preface says that in treating of Devonshire Characters the writer has had to put aside the chief Worthies and those Devonians famous in history.
The text quotes a tract saying that George Strangwidge, Mistress Page, Priddis, and Tom Stone were condemned and adjudged to die for the said fact. The text records that in 1809 a catalogue of a hundred and ten nuisances in the city of Exeter was issued, and that a market was altered from Wednesday to Tuesday with unanimous approbation in 1812. A picture is captioned Maria Foote, afterwards Countess of Harrington, as Maria Darlington in the farce of A Rowland for an Oliver (1824).
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- S. Baring-Gould
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- 726
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