ANTHONY PAYNE
Anthony Payne, the “Falstaff of the West,” was born in the manor house, Strat-ton, the…
ANNE JEFFERIES
Moses Pitt, a publisher in London, a native of S. Teath, in 1696 published the…
ANN GLANVILLE
Saltash was formerly a very much more important place than it is to-day. Now the…
ADMIRAL RICHARD DARTON THOMAS
Richard Darton Thomas was born at Saltash on 2nd June, 1777, son of Charles and…
BENJAMIN KENNICOTT, D.D.
Benjamin Kennicott was born at Totnes on 4 April, 1718, and was the son of…
ANDREW BRICE, PRINTER
Andrew Brice, an Exeter printer, was born 21 August, 1692, “in the house where Mary…
Abram the Usurer.[1]
In the reign of Heraclius, when Sergius was patriarch of Constantinople, there lived in Byzantium…
A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER.
The subject of this memoir has been dead but a few years, and therefore I…
A PROFESSIONAL SECRET
Mr. Leveridge was in a solicitor’s office at Swanton. Mr. Leveridge had been brought up…
A HAPPY RELEASE
Mr. Benjamin Woolfield was a widower. For twelve months he put on mourning. The mourning…