Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

Chapter 36: FOOTNOTES

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This book offers a guided tour of a West Country county, combining travel writing, local history, and landscape description. Each chapter moves along rivers, moorlands, and shores to record towns, churches, castles, manor houses, and maritime life, pairing vivid sketches of hills, woodlands, estuaries, and ports with notes on antiquities, legends, and civic memory. The narrative balances pastoral observation and architectural detail, punctuated by personal impressions and historical anecdote, and is complemented by colour and black-and-white illustrations that emphasize the region's natural variety and built heritage.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Vuzz, i.e. furze.

[2] In another version 'underground'—i.e., miners.

[3] W. H. Hamilton Rogers, 'Dartmoor.'

[4] Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1873.

[5] 'An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter,' by William Cotton.

[6] 'Sketches and Studies.'

[7] Cease.

[8] St. Ginnes.

[9] The cottager by the seaside.

[10] 'La Hockeday' is commonly, but incorrectly, supposed to commemorate the freedom of the English by the massacre of the Danes on the Feast of St. Brice, 1002. 'Hoke-tide' began on the Monday after the second Sunday after Easter.

[11] Portcullised.