entertained the popular duke when he came to Ilminster. We pass the
entrance to the park as we drive out upon the road to Yeovil--the park
whose palings were broken down by the crowd that surged about Monmouth,
when he rode in with his self-constituted bodyguard of two thousand
horsemen. Our progress, if greeted with less enthusiasm than his, is
quicker. We spin through dull scenery upon a splendid road till the bluff
outline of Hamdon Hill comes into sight. For a moment we touch the Fosse
Way, then swing slowly round the base of the hill through Stoke, and see
St. Michael’s Tower above us on the right.
It was this sugar-loaf hill that prompted William de Mortain the
swashbuckler to name his castle Montacute, when he built it where the
tower now stands. His father Robert de Mortain, who had come successfully
through many battles with the standard of St. Michael borne before him,
regarded that saint as the particular patron of his family. It was he
who dedicated “the guarded Mount” in Cornwall and gave the monastery to
its namesake in Normandy, “for the health of his soul.” His son, whose
piety was peculiarly spasmodic, not only built his castle here, but
founded the Cluniac priory whose lovely fifteenth-century gatehouse still
stands at the foot of the hill. Everything at Montacute is lovely: this
gatehouse with the oriel windows and the towers and creepers: the church
with its many styles of architecture, from Norman to Decorated: the
village square with its houses of warm yellow stone, and all its windows
made beautiful with drip-stones and mullions: above all, the splendid
Tudor front of Montacute House, and its formal, parapeted garden.
The Summer-land, as we leave it, is not beautiful, nor is Yeovil an
interesting town. But the road is very good; the engine is singing
softly; and as for us--we are remembering.
FOOTNOTES
[1] See “Wells and Glastonbury,” by T. S. Holmes.
[2] See Prince’s “Worthies of Devon.”
[3] German _schelm_.
[4] See “Plymouth Armada Heroes,” by M. W. S. Hawkins.
[5] It is a _repliqua_ of the one at Tavistock.
[6] Open to the public on one afternoon a week, but not always on the
same day.
[7] The King’s General in the West--more often called Granville: but as
his family is so often mentioned in these pages I thought it best to keep
to one form.
[8] “History of Dunster,” by Sir H. Maxwell-Lyte.
[9] “Old Falmouth,” by Miss S. E. Gay.
[10] “Pendennis and St. Mawe’s,” by Captain Oliver.
[11] “Old Falmouth,” by Miss S. E. Gay.
[12] “History of the Granville Family,” by Roger Granville.
[13] “History of the Granville Family.”
[14] “Copyed from oone accounte in Maisster Alston’s Seamanshyppe Booke.”
[15] From “History of the Granville Family.”
[16] See “The Vicar of Morwenstow,” by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
[17] Do not take the road to the left, marked _Lynton_ on the signpost,
for it goes down the notorious “Beggar’s Roost” hill, roughly one in
three.
[18] Most of the facts relating to the history of Dunster are derived
from Sir H. Maxwell-Lyte’s “History of Dunster.”
[19] “The Holland House Circle,” by Lloyd Sandars.
INDEX
Act of Supremacy, 23
Albemarle, Duke of, 46
Alfred the Great, 43, 210
Alef, King, 132
Allerford, 201
Aller Vale, 75
_Ancient Mariner_, 209
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 20, 192
Angoulême, Duchesse d’, 101
Appledore, 182
Arthur, King, 20, 160, 161-164
Arundel, Family of, 150, 151, 152, 216
Arundel, Sir John (father of John-for-the-King), 167
Arundel, Sir John (John-for-the-King), 128, 129, 150, 151
Arundel, Sir John (Old Tilbury), 150
Arwenack, 125-127, 129, 130
Ashburton, 52, 64
Asser, Bishop, 210
Athelstane, King, 43, 47, 141, 142
Avalon, Isle of, 15, 20
Aveton Giffard, 96
Avon, River, 4
Avon, River, Devon, 95, 96
Axbridge, 8
Bantham, 95
Barlow, Bishop, 14
Barnstaple, 182, 183, 185, 186-188
Basset, Colonel, 187, 188
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 187
Beaulieu, 45
Becka Woods, 62
Becket, Thomas à, 60
Beckington, Bishop, 11, 12
Bede, 17
Bedruthan Steps, 152, 153, 154
_Bellerophon_, H.M.S., 76
Bere, Abbot, 16, 19
Berry Pomeroy, 77-79, 81
Bideford, 160, 180-183
Bideford Bay, 179
Bishop’s Clyst, 41, 42
Bishop’s Lydeard, 210
Bishop’s Tawton, 186
Blackmoor Gate, 190, 192
Blackpool, 88
Blake, Robert, 100, 142, 206, 211, 215
Blois, Henry de, 216
Bloody Assizes, 213, 214
Bloody Corner, 182
Boconnoc, 112-114, 156, 205
Bodinnick, 119
Bodmin, 155, 156, 159
Bolt Head, 94
Bonville, Lady, Tomb of, 201
Boscastle, 166
Boscawen, Admiral, 131
Bossiney, 166
Bovey Tracey, 59-61, 63, 64
Braddock Downs, 112, 113
Branscombe, Bishop, 41, 42
Braose, William de, 79
Brent Tor, 66
Brian, Family of de, 90
Bridgwater, 24
Bristol Channel, 5
_Britannia_, H.M.S., 85
Brixham, 75, 81, 82-84
Brixton, 97
Broad Clyst, 36
Brookfield, Charles, 5, 6
Bruere, William de, 76
Bruton Abbey, 205
Brutus of Troy, 81
Buckfastleigh, 52
Buckingham, 1st Duke of, 74
Buckland Abbey, 70
Bude, 166, 167
Buller, Family of, 112
Burnet, Bishop, 49, 83
Button, Bishop, 12
Callington, 106, 157
Camborne, 148
Camden, 16
Camelford, 160, 161
Carew the Antiquarian, 49, 107, 114, 146, 151, 164, 165
Carey, Family of, 177
Carrick Roads, 130
Castle Rock, 195
Cecil, Arms of, 51
Chagford, 57
Challacombe, 192
Champernowne, Family of, 39, 41, 97
Chard, 4, 27, 30
Charles I., 43, 74, 75, 112, 113, 156, 169, 190, 211
Charles II., 69, 87, 127, 129, 207, 216
Chatham, Lord, 114
Cheddar, 4, 8-10
Churchill, 7, 8
Civil War, 28, 36, 46, 51, 60, 61, 69, 85, 87, 94, 96, 97, 112, 113,
123, 127-130, 156, 158, 167-170, 183-185, 187, 206, 207, 211,
212, 215, 216
Clarendon, Lord, 171, 215
Cleeve Abbey, 207-209
Clevedon, 4-7
Clifton Bridge, 4
Clovelly, 177-180, 194
Clyst St. George, 41
Coleridge, Sara, 5, 6
Coleridge, S. T., 5, 6, 34-36, 209
Collyns, Prior, 121, 122
Combe Florey, 209, 210
Combe Martin, 190
Congresbury, 7
Constantine, 131
Cook, Captain, 100
Cornwall, 52, 55, 66, 69, 70, 105, 106
Cornwall, Cape, 142
Cornwall, Earls of, 114, 163
Cornwall, North, 144-174
Cornwall, South, 105-142
Cothele, 80, 106-108
Cothelstone, 211, 212
Cottle, Joseph, 5, 6
Countisbury Hill, 195, 196
Courtenay, Family of, 113
Coverdale, Miles, 76
Crediton, 186
Crewkerne, 28, 29
Cromwell, Oliver, 28, 60, 74
Cromwell, Thomas, 18, 23, 121
Crowcombe, 209
Culver, 57
Cury, 134
Dartmeet, 64
Dartmoor, 3, 52, 55, 57, 58, 61-66, 73, 74, 106, 146, 147, 185
Dartmoor Prison, 65, 66
Dartmouth, 52, 55, 81, 82, 84-87, 88, 130
Dart, River, 64, 80, 81, 82, 130
Davis, John, 82, 85
Davy, Sir Humphry, 139
Dawlish, 73
Dean Prior, 52-54
Denzell Downs, 153
Devon, Earl of, 56
Devon, Mid, 32-70
Devon, North, 176-196
Devon, South, 4, 55, 72-101
Dillington House, 217-218
Dissolution of Monasteries, 10, 18, 19, 22, 68, 121, 208
Doone Valley, 196
Dovel, Abbot, 208, 209
Dover, 46
Drake, Arms of, 51
Drake, Sir Francis, 68, 69, 70, 82, 85, 98, 99, 112
Drewsteignton, 63, 64
Dunkerry Hill, 202
Dunster, 195, 201, 202-207
East Budleigh, 38, 40
Edgar, King, 19, 67, 68
Edgecumbe, Family of, 80, 107, 108
Edmund the Elder, 19
Edmund Ironside, 19
Edward the Confessor, 137
Edward I., 20, 41
Edward II., 50
Edward III., 13, 85, 90, 190
Edward IV., 15, 45, 47, 87, 117, 118
Edward the Black Prince, 50, 99
Eggesford, 186
Egloshayle, 160
Eleanor, Queen, 20
Elfrida, Queen, 67, 68
Eliot, George, 189
Eliot, Sir John, 108
Elizabeth, Queen, 97, 99, 190
_Endymion_, 73
Esdaile, Edward, 212
Essex, Earl of, 156
Ethelburga, Queen, 25, 26
Ethelwold, 67, 68
Exe, River, 55
Exeter, 4, 35, 40, 42-52, 54-56, 58, 73, 201
Exford, 195
Exmoor, 190, 192, 193, 196
Failand, 4
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, 28, 36, 48, 51, 74, 85, 87, 94, 123, 127,
158, 183-185
Falmouth, 125-131
Fal, River, 123, 130, 131
Feversham, 24
Fingle Bridge, 63
Fitzford House, 68, 69
Fitzwilliam, Elizabeth, 119
Floreys, Arms of, 209
Ford House, 74, 75
Fortescue, Sir Edmund, 94
Fosse Way, 27, 218
Fountains, Abbot of, 22
Fowey, 115-120, 130, 156
Fowey, Gallants of, 87, 116-118
Fowey, River, 114, 120, 155, 156
Fox, Caroline, 131
Fox, George, 158, 159
Frobisher, Sir Martin, 100
Froude, J. A., 94
Furry Day, 135
Gates, Sir John, 14
Gay, John, 187
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 81
Giffard, Bishop, 216
Gilbert the Antiquarian, 121
Gilbert, Arms of, 51
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 39, 82, 100
Glastonbury, 4, 15-23, 26
Glastonbury Tor, 15, 22
Glyndwr, Owain, 205
Godolphin, Sir Francis, 139
Goodrington Sands, 82
Goodshelter, 95
Gordon, Lady Katherine, 48, 138, 139
Goring, Lord, 216
Grandison, Bishop, 35, 49-51, 181
Greenway, 82
Grenville, Arms of, 38, 170, 171
Grenville, Sir Bevill, 97, 113, 124, 158, 167-172
Grenville, Family of, 124, 170
Grenville, Grace, Lady, 97, 113, 167, 168, 171, 172
Grenville, Honor, 38
Grenville, John, Earl of Bath, 168, 170
Grenville, Sir Richard, of the _Revenge_, 69, 82, 100, 142, 170, 182
Grenville, Sir Richard, the “Skellum,” 68, 69, 115, 156, 158, 216
Grenville, Sir Theobald, 180, 181, 187
Grenville, Sir Thomas, 181
Grey, Lord, 12
Grimspound, 65
Guinevere, 20
Gunwalloe, 135
Gurnard’s Head, 147
Gweek, 131, 132
Gyllyng Vase Bay, 129
Haldon, Great, 73, 74
Hall, 119, 205
Hallam, Arthur, 7
Hallam, Family of, 5
Hals, 118, 153
Hamdon Hill, 218
Hamilton, 1st Duke of, 127
Hamilton, 5th Duke of, 114
Hamoaze, 66
Harington, Tomb of Lord, 201
Harold, King, 200
Hatch Beauchamp, 216
Hawker, R. S., 131, 166, 167, 172-174
Hawkins, Lady, 91, 100
Hawkins, Sir John, 82, 99, 100
Hawkins, Sir Richard, 90, 91, 99, 100
Hayes Barton, 38-40
Hayle, 148
Hazlitt, William, 209
Heavitree, 43
Helston, 131, 135
Henrietta, Duchesse d’Orléans, 46, 47
Henrietta Maria, Queen, 85, 127, 128
Henry V., 190
Henry VII., 19, 43, 45-48, 181, 187, 214
Henry VIII., 18, 19, 22, 94, 121, 127, 129, 131, 208
Hereward the Wake, 131, 132
Herrick, Robert, 52-54
Hessenford, 108
Hey Tor, 59, 61
Hinguar, 26
Hobby Drive, 177, 178
Holne, 64
Honiton, 34
Hope, 95
Hopton, Lord, 216
Hound Tor, 62
Hubba, 26, 182
Hunter’s Inn, 195
Igerne, 163
Ilchester, 25, 27
Ilfracombe, 188, 189
Ilminster, 27, 216, 217, 218
Ina, King of the West Saxons, 25, 214
Ireland, 17, 142, 200
Ireton, General, 123
Isabel, Queen, 50
Isoud, La Beale, 163
Ivybridge, 52
Jeffreys, Judge, 24, 211, 213, 214
Jewell, Bishop, 187
John, King, 78, 138, 142
John, King of France, 26, 99
Jocelin, Bishop, 11
Judhael of Totnes, 79, 187
Katherine of Aragon, 9
Keats, John, 3, 73, 74
Kelly Rounds, 160, 161
Ken, Bishop, 12, 13
Kenneggy Downs, 135, 136
Kilkhampton, 124, 169-172
Killigrew, Dame Mary, 130
Killigrew, Family of, 125-127, 130, 133
Killigrew, Lady Jane, 130
Killigrew, Sir John, 130
King Harry’s Reach, 130, 131
Kingsbridge, 52, 92, 95, 96
Kingsdon Hill, 26
Kingsley, Charles, 64, 76, 82, 179, 181, 182
Kingswear, 84, 87
Kirke, Colonel, 213
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 124
Knill, Mr., 147, 148
Kynance Cove, 134
Lambert, General, 123
Land’s End, 4, 140, 141, 142, 154
Land’s End to John o’ Groat’s, Road from, 145, 149
Langton, Bishop, Arms of, 214
Lanherne, 151-153
Lanhydrock, 155, 156
Lanreath, 112
Lansdowne Hill, 167
Lanteglos, 120
Laud, Archbishop, 12, 13
Launceston, 52, 155, 157-159
Lee Abbey, 195
Leland, John, 10, 11, 13, 19, 43, 51, 89, 114, 117, 158, 213
Lelant, 148
Lely, Sir Peter, 46
Liskeard, 106, 108, 155, 156, 157
Lizard, 131, 133, 141
Lizard Town, 132, 133
Logan Rock, 140
Longships Lighthouse, 142
Looe, 109, 110
Looe Island, 110
Looe, River, 106, 108, 109, 110
Lostwithiel, 112, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120
Lower Hendra, 140
Lundy Island, 172
Lustleigh, 59
Luttrell, Arms of, 206
Luttrell, Family of, 203-206
Luttrell, Henry, 210
Luttrell, Lady Elizabeth, 204
Luttrell, Sir Hugh, 205, 206
Lynher, River, 108
Lynmouth, 4, 191, 193-195
Lynton, 190, 191, 194-196
Lyonesse, 142
Macaulay, Lord, 217
Malmesbury, William of, 17
Manacle Rocks, 129
Manaton, 59, 62
Marazion, 136, 137
Marconi Towers, 132, 134
Mark, King, 163
Maurice, Prince, 10, 87
Mawgan Porth, 152, 153, 154
_Mayflower_, 100
Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 98, 107
Mendip Hills, 8, 10
Merivale Bridge, 66
Milliton, Mr., 136
Minehead, 202
Modbury, 52, 96, 97
Mohun, Dame Hawise de, 205, 206
Mohun, Family of, 113, 114, 203, 205, 206, 216
Mohun, Lord, 113, 114
Mohun, Sir Reynold de, of Dunster, 205, 206
Mohun, Sir Reynold de, of Hall, 119
Monmouth, Duke of, 11, 12, 24, 27, 42, 213, 214, 217, 218
Montacute, 28, 218, 219
Montacute, Family of, 216
Morchard Road, 185
Moretonhampstead, 52, 55, 56, 57-59, 63, 64
Mortain, Family of, 113
Mortain, Robert de, 157, 218
Mortain, William de, 121, 218, 219
Morvah, 145, 146
Morval, 106
Morwenna, St., 172
Morwenstow, 172-174
Mount Edgecumbe, 98, 106, 107
Mullion Cove, 134
Napoleon, 76, 101
Nelson, Lord, 142
Newlyn, 137, 140, 147
Newlyn Downs, 149
Newquay, 149, 150, 155
Newton Abbot, 74, 75
Nombre de Dios Bay, 99
Northumberland, Earl of, 90
_Northumberland_, H.M.S., 76
Northumbria, 17
Okehampton, 52
Ordgar, 67
Otter, River, 36, 38
Otterton, 38, 42
Ottery St. Mary, 35, 36
Oxford, Lord, 138
Paignton, 76, 81, 82
Park Head, 154
Parracombe, 190, 192, 195
Paulinus, 17
Payne, Anthony, 124, 125, 167-169
Peak Hill, 37
Pelynt, 112
Pendennis Castle, 127-129, 150
Pengerswick, 135, 136
Penjerrick, 131
Penryn, 125, 130
Penzance, 137, 139, 145
Perkin Warbeck, 10, 43, 45-48, 138, 139, 205, 215
Perranarworthal, 125
Petherton, 28
Philip II. of Spain, 99
Pilgrim Fathers, 100
Pilton, 188
Pitt Diamond, 114
Pitt, Family of, 113, 114
Place, 116, 117
Plân-an-Guare, 146
Plymouth, 52, 55, 66, 96, 97-101, 106
Plymouth Sound, 82, 98
Plympton Earle, 54
Plympton St. Mary, 52, 54
Polbathick, 108
Polden Hills, 24
Poldhu Cove, 134
Pole, Sir William, 34, 35
Polperro, 110-112
Polruan, 118
Poltimore, 46
Pomeroy, Family of, 77, 79
Pomeroy, Henry de, 78, 138
Pont Pill, 120
Poole Priory, 90
Porlock, 189, 199-201
Porlock Weir, 201
Portsmouth Arms Station, 186
Postbridge, 65
Prah, 135
Prince, John, 41, 78, 98, 107, 188, 217
Princetown, 66
Prynne, William, 207
Quantock Hills, 209, 211
Quivil, Bishop, 49
Raleigh, Arms of, 38, 51
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 34, 38-40, 82, 100, 125, 142
Ralph of Shrewsbury, 13
Redruth, 149
Restormel, 114, 115
Reynell, Sir Richard, 75
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 54, 55
Rippon Tor, 62
Richard I., 78, 85, 138
Richard III., 47, 107, 181
Richard, King of the Romans, 114, 115
Robarts, Lord, 156
Rodney, Lord, 142
Rolls, Mr., of Stephenstone, 184, 185
Rougemont Castle, 47, 48
Sachvill, Sir Ralph, 41
Saddle Tor, 62
St. Aidan, 17
St. Austell, 122
St. Blazey, 122
St. Bridget, 17
St. Buryan, 140, 141
St. Columba, 153
St. Columb Major, 152, 153
St. Columb Minor, 151
St. David, 17
St. David’s, 14, 210
St. Dunstan, 18, 19, 21
St. Erth Station, 145
St. Eval, 154
St. German’s, 108
St. Grace, 123
St. Hilda, 17
St. Ives, 145, 146-148
St. Just, 145, 146
St. Mawe’s, 129
St. Mawgan, 151, 152
St. Michael’s Mount, 136-139, 218
St. Michael’s Tower, 218
St. Patrick, 17
St. Petrock, 155
St. Probus, 123
St. Rayne’s Hill, 29
Salcombe, 92-95
Sandridge, 82
Sandy Park, 63
Scilly Isles, 141, 142
Scotland, Arthur’s death in, 20, 161
Seaton, River, 108
Sedgemoor, 24
Selwood, Abbot, 16
Selworthy, 202
Sennan, 141, 145
Severn, 4, 8, 206
Seymour, Family of, 77, 78
Seymour, Sir Edward, 78
Shelley, Ianthe, 211, 212
Sidmouth, 36, 37
Simonsbath, 191, 192, 195
Stapledon, Bishop, 49, 50
Slapton, 89-91
Slapton Ley, 89
Slapton Sands, 87, 88
Slaughter Bridge, 161, 162
Somerset, 2-30, 198-219
Somerset, Arms of, 51
Somerset, Protector, 13, 14, 77, 79
Somerton, 25, 26
South Molton, 186
South Pool Creek, 95
Spanish Armada, 76, 82, 98, 107, 132, 133
Speke, Mr., 217
Sprigge, Joshua, 28, 60
Stamford Hill, 169
Stawell, Arms of, 211
Stawell, Lord, 211
Stawell, Sir John, 211
Stephen, King, 47
Sticklepath, 52
Stoke, 218
Stoke Fleming, 88
Stokenham, 92
Stratton, 124, 167-169
Strete, 88
Sydney Smith, 209
Talbot, Arms of, 51
Tamar, River, 70, 80, 107, 108
Taunton, 26, 45, 207, 213-216
Tavistock, 52, 55, 58, 64, 66-70, 106
Taw, River, 183, 185, 186
Teignmouth, 73
Teign, River, 57, 58, 63, 64, 74
Telegraph Hill, 73
Tenby, 189
Teneriffe, 142
Tennyson, Lord, 5, 7, 94
Thackeray, W. M., 5, 6
Throgmorton, Arms of, 51
Thurlestone, 95
Thurstan, Abbot, 20, 21
Tintagel, 136, 162-165
Tonkin the Antiquarian, 145
Topsham, 56
Torbay, 83
Torcross, 92
Torpoint, 106, 108
Torquay, 52, 55, 73, 75, 76, 82
Torridge, River, 183, 185
Torrington, 183-185
Totnes, 77, 79-81
Tracy, 60, 187
Trafalgar, 142
Treffry, Dame Elizabeth, 116
Treffry, Sir Thomas, 116, 117
Tregenna Castle Hotel, 147
Tregothnan, 131
Trelawny, Bishop, 112, 158
Trelawny, Family of, 112
Trerice, 150, 151
Tresilian Bridge, 123
Trevena, 166
Trevose Head, 154
Truro, 123-125, 131, 149, 155
Tristram, 163
Tudor, Jasper, 216
Two Bridges, 52, 64, 65
Tywardraeth, 120-122
Umberleigh, 186
Uther Pendragon, 163
Valley of Rocks, 195
Voisey, Bishop, 42
Wadebridge, 160
Wadham, Nicholas and Dorothy, Tomb of, 217
Wadham, Sir William, 217
Wales, 17, 172, 209
Warelwast, Bishop, 49, 52, 54, 159
Warwick the Kingmaker, 117
Washford, 207
Waterhead, 95
Wells, 7, 10-15, 26
Welsford Moor, 177
Wesley, John, 136
West Alvington, 96
Westminster, Matthew of, 19
_Westward Ho!_, 181
Westward Ho!, 182
Whiddon Cross, 195
White Lackington, 217
Whitesand Bay, 142
Whiting, Abbot, 19, 22, 23
Widdecombe-in-the-Moor, 62
William I., 43, 47, 157, 192
William III., 13, 43, 44, 48, 49, 74, 75, 78, 83, 84, 201
William the Ætheling, 129
Williton, 209
Winkleigh, 183, 185
Windwhistle, 29, 30
Wolsey, Cardinal, 13
Woodbury, 131
Wordsworth, William, 209
Worthyvale, 161
Wykeham, William of, 216
Wyndham, Colonel, 216
Yatton, 7
Yarcombe, 34
Yealmpton, 97
Yeovil, 27, 218, 219
Zelah Hill, 149
Zennor, 145
Zouche, Family of, 80
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