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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: Whiteway’s _Wine of the West Country_.]
[Footnote 2: They are not so represented in the three lithographs that
were published at Torquay. But two others beside this correspondent
mention their appearance in “bloomers.”]
[Footnote 3: M. B. Synge, _A Short History of Social Life in England_.
London, 1906.]
[Footnote 4: Whitfeld, _Plymouth and Devonport, in Times of War and
Peace_, 1890, pp. 296-7.]
[Footnote 5: “Venez en bas, et montez le ‘Scuttle’ et allez en bas.”]
[Footnote 6: “Lady Howard, of Fitzford,” in _Transactions_ of the
Devonshire Association, 1890.]
[Footnote 7: Mr. J. R. Chanter, “A History of Lundy Island,” in the
_Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, 1871. Reprinted in _Lundy
Island_, 1877.]
[Footnote 8: W. Cotton, “An Expedition against Pirates,” in
_Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, 1886.]
[Footnote 9: R. Pearse Chope, “Benson, M.P. and Smuggler,” in the
_Hartland Chronicle_, 1906.]
[Footnote 10: Chanter, _Lundy Island_, 1877. Besides Mr. Chanter’s
History, my authority is Mr. R. P. Chope’s articles on “Lundy Pirates”
and on “Benson” in the _Hartland Chronicle_, 1906.]
[Footnote 11: In the tract, twenty-two.]
[Footnote 12: For this last instance, see _Transactions_ of the
Devonshire Association, 1900, p. 84.]
[Footnote 13: Depositions relating to Mr. Stucley’s doings in Spain,
August, 1571, quoted by Froude in his _History of England_.]
[Footnote 14: O. King to Burghley, 18 February, 1572. _Ibid._]
[Footnote 15: Letter from T. Lorkin to Sir T. Puckering.]
[Footnote 16: The ballad, with its melody, is given in _Songs of the
West_, 2nd ed., 1905.]
[Footnote 17: This play was by Charles Johnson--not the author of the
Lives of the Pirates. It was acted at Drury Lane in 1713. John Dennis
wrote to the Master of the Revels to expostulate with him for having
licensed this play, which he considered as a prostitution of the stage,
an encouragement to villainy, and a disgrace to the theatre.]
[Footnote 18: We might be led to suppose that we were reading of the
proceedings of the Belgians in the Congo Free State.]
[Footnote 19: “The Early Poetry of Devonshire” in the _Transactions_ of
the Devonshire Association for 1874.]
[Footnote 20: She was daughter of George Cain, carpenter, and was
baptized 8 December, 1728.]
[Footnote 21: Annie Davies, died 6 February, 1815; buried in South
Audley Street Church.]
[Footnote 22: His pupils paid him £210 each.]
[Footnote 23: His grammar is here perplexed.]
[Footnote 24: Reprinted in the _Journal_ of the Royal Institute of
Cornwall, 1904.]
[Footnote 25: Worthy (C.), _Devonshire Parishes_, II, pp. 371-4. Exon.,
1888.]
[Footnote 26: Switzer, _Introduction to Hydrostatics and Hydraulics_,
p. 342.]
[Footnote 27: Smiles, _Lives of Boulton and Watt_, pp. 62-8. London,
1865.]
[Footnote 28: Pengelly (W.), “Notes on Slips,” in _Transactions_ of the
Devonshire Association, 1882.]
[Footnote 29: Entries in an old Bible, in the _Western Antiquary_,
1885, p. 196.]
[Footnote 30: _Universal Magazine_ for 1781.]
[Footnote 31: _Memoirs of P. Stockdale_, I, 313-14. London, 1809.]
[Footnote 32: “The Exmoor Scolding and Courtship,” by T. N. Brushfield,
/M.D./, in the _Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association for
1888.]
[Footnote 33: See W. F. Collier, “Wrestling,” in the _Cornish
Magazine_, Vol. I, 1898.]
[Footnote 34: For a full account, most graphically written, and from
which I have quoted, see Mr. Whitfeld’s _Plymouth and Devonport, in War
and Peace_, Plymouth, 1900; also the _Sporting Magazine_ for 1826-7;
the _Annual Register_, 1826.]
[Footnote 35: Thornton (Rev. W. H.), _Reminiscences of an Old
West-country Clergyman_, 1897.]
[Footnote 36: R. N. Worth, _Transactions_ of Devonshire Association,
1876.]
[Footnote 37: _Law Magazine_, Vol. VII, p. 331.]
[Footnote 38: Sir W. Jones’ Works (1799), Vol. IV, p. 577.]
[Footnote 39: Mackenzie’s _History of the Macleods_, p. 431, says it
was Anna Maria who married John Wilson. He does not mention her sister
Isabella at all. Burke’s _Landed Gentry_ of 1846 mentions Isabella but
not Elizabeth.]
[Footnote 40: Whitfeld, _Plymouth and Devonport, in War and Peace_, p.
244.]
[Footnote 41: This is probably the second man shot when crouching
against the wall mentioned by Andrews.]
[Footnote 42: Neither of these charges was investigated by the
Commissioners, as beyond the scope of their inquiry, which was confined
to the actual “massacre.”]
[Footnote 43: Both Dr. Magrath and Lieut. Avelyn deny in their
depositions that on this occasion Captain Shortland was intoxicated.]
[Footnote 44: “He went down with the military with both hands in his
breeches pockets.” Evidence of James Carley, turnkey.]
[Footnote 45: This contravenes the statement made by the prisoners in
their memorandum.]
[Footnote 46: Captain Shortland pretended that the soldiers charged
without his having given the command--all evidence to the contrary. The
Commissioners did not believe him.]
[Footnote 47: David Spencer Warren, one of the witnesses, said:
“Captain Shortland, when he told them to fire, was in front, one
soldier beside him. They might have fired at his side or over him
without hurting him.”]
[Footnote 48: This disposes of the allegation of the prisoners that
Shortland had placed the soldiers there before the ringing of the alarm
bell.]
[Footnote 49: This disposes of the charge made by the prisoners that no
proper notice was given them that they were to turn in.]
[Footnote 50: The stone-throwing did not take place in the outer yard
or Market Square where these two warders were, but later in the inner
yard.]
[Footnote 51: This is disingenuous. He says nothing about the forcible
breaking open of the gate.]
[Footnote 52: This was James Greenlaw.]
[Footnote 53: This is contrary to the general evidence, and contrary to
his subsequent admission.]
[Footnote 54: Burnard (R.), _Dartmoor Pictorial Records_, IV. Plymouth,
1894.]
[Footnote 55: For fuller accounts of the house and family see
_Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, Vols. XXXII and XXXV.]
[Footnote 56: For in that year “Roger de Nort’ Wyke” appears in the
jury list of S.T. Hundred (Assize Roll, Devon, 175, m. 35).]
[Footnote 57: See _Notes and Queries_, 10, S. VIII, pp. 9, 73, 74.--E.
L.-W.]