66 house-leek, which were thought to avert the lightning: and it might be well to make local enquiries as to the survival of any superstitious notions of this kind, as well as of any other piece of folk-lore which might throw a light on the ancient religions of Britain. Such, for example, were the practices at the Cornish laughing-wells," of which Sir Henry de la Beche gave some account in his work on the geology of the South-Western Counties. There are mineral-springs which can be excited to "laugh," or to break into bubbles, by throwing in any little object of metal, and others of which the waters are troubled when pieces of bread are cast upon their surface. The children at the Fountain of Berendon in Brittany, within the limits of the legendary Forest of Brocéliande, used to make sport with the spirit of the waters; "Ris done, ris donc, fontaine de Berendon, et je te donnerai une épingle." Many other relics of the old world may be found by a strict observation of popular customs and children's games and fairy tales. Perhaps I may be allowed, in conclusion, to quote from a work of my own a passage in which I have shown how much our literature has been influenced by the traditions of the Celtic paganism. "The medieval romances and the legends which stood for history are full of the fair humanities and figures of its bright mythology. The elemental powers of earth and fire, and the spirits which haunted the waves and streams, appear again as kings in the Irish Annals or as saints and hermits in Wales. The knights of the Round Table, Sir Kay and Tristram and the bold Sir Bedivere, betray their origin by the attributes whcih they retained as heroes of romance. It was a goddess, Dea quædam phantastica,' who bore the wounded Arthur to the peaceful valley. There was little sunlight on its woods and streams, and the nights were dark and gloomy for want of the moon and stars. This is the country of Oberon and Sir Huon of Bordeaux. It is the dreamy forest of Arden. In an older mythology it was the realm of a King of Shadows, the country of Gwyn ap Nudd, who rode as 'Sir Guyon' in the 'Faerie Queen,' 'And knighthood took of good Sir Huon's hand, When with King Oberon he came to Fairyland.'” 666 June 8th, 1885. CHARLES I. ELTON. X. XI. XII. PLATES OF ANCIENT BRITISH COINS FOUND AT MOUNT BATTEN, NEAR TALLAND CHURCH, CORNWALL (5 illustrations) ANCIENT FONT IN THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN, STOKE CANON, CORNER OF GOLDSMITH STREET, EXETER XIII. XIV. PORTRAIT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNIGHT XV. ARMS OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE XVI. MEMORIAL STATUE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ON PLYMOUTH HOE XVII. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CORNISH CHURCHES: : 1. Font, St. Antony.-2. Font, St. Ruan Minor.-3. Font, St. Madron.-4. Font, Landewednack XVIII. ARMS OF THE ANCIENT COMPANIES OF THE CITY OF EXETER (15 illustrations) XIX. ANCIENT WELLS OF CORNWALL:-1. Dupath Well, or Baptistry.-2. Well of St. Cleer PEDIGREES. LEY alias KEMPTHORNE, IN DEVON, &c. Folded Sheet to follow page 114. SIKES OF DARTMOUTH On ',, 200. The binder is requested to notice the corrected plate, “Arms of John Ley," and the instructions respecting the same on page 174. Arms of Ley, 112, 114, 124, 174 Arthur (King), 2, 3, 43, 46, 241, 244, 266 Art in Devon, 7 Art-Lectures, 246 Artists, 31, 35, 219, 261 Arundels, 48 Ashburton, 75, 117 Ashford, 177 Ashton Church, 51 Babies and Parsley, 30, 54 Banks (Sir Joseph), 95 Barker (Pentecost), 215 Barnstaple, 30, 61, 73 Beckenham, 82 Becket, 165, 221, 265 Beddington, 84 Beer Ferrers, 32, 54, 112, 114, 117, 119, 120, 148, 149, 195 Belfries, 15, 49 Bells, 49 Berry Head, 163 Berry Pomeroy, 159 Beunans Meriasek, 10 Bibles, 50, 93 Bibliography, 9, 18, 19, 33, 52, 53, 54, 120, 169, 170, 181, 198, 209, 214, 221, 227, 248, 271 Borough (Walter), 33 Bowhill Chapel, Exeter, 32 Breton Mystery Plays, 43 Brockway Family, 33 Bromley (Henry, M. P.), 52, 120 Brooking (Admiral), 55 Brow, 262 Browne (William), 5 Budgell Lane, 23, 24, 195 Burscough (Rev. R.), 9, 53, 55 Cad, 34, 52, 98 Cadover Bridge, 52, 98 Caerhayes, 48 Calculating Boy, 260 Camel's Head, 240, 265 Carclew, 48 Carew, Sir Gawen, 49, 78, 98, 118, 240 Catholicism in Exeter, 42 Cat-water, 262 Caution to Licensed Victuallers, 162 Celtic Cornish Names, 201 Chapels of Ease, 262 Charges, Travellers', 93 Charities, 96 Charles II., 76, 261 Charles Edward (Prince), 67 Chaucer, 2 Chauncy, I. W., 144, 195 Chew Magna, 35 Chittlehampton, 128 Chrism, 142 Chrisomer's Hill, 141, 142 Christmas Ballads, 140 Christmas Customs, 133, 138, 162 Church Bells, 49 Church Dedications, 229 Church Restorations, 19 Church in the West, 18 Clobery (Sir J.), 167 Cocker Family, 97, 219 Colcombe Deer Park, 22 Collins Family, 262 Colonizing Dartmoor, 262 Colonizing New England, 11 Companies, 187, 247 Conant Family, 96, 147 Cookworthy, 8 Cornish Antiquities, 243 Cornish Arms, 8, 35, 98, 118, 147, 272 Cornish Coasts, 137 Cornish Chough, 221 Cornish Churches, 218, 243 Cornish Customs, 140 Cornish Deer Parks, 47, 72, 77, 114 Cornish Families, 33 Cornish Fonts, 246 Cornish Mines, 262 Cornish Miracle Plays, 10, 44 Cornish Place Names, 201 Cornish Sexton's Note Book, 31 Cornwall, Harbours of Refuge, 137 Cruel, 221 Culprit's Clothes, 144 Da Costa, Emanuel, 192 Dartmoor, 58, 9, 34, 98, 99, 103, 262 Dartmoor Bibliography, 9 Dartmouth, 38, 73, 94 Darwin, 96 Drake's Ship, 50 Drake, Nathan, 11 Duchy of Cornwall, 102 East Budleigh, 96 Epitaphs, 16, 94, 114, 163, 164, 241 Exeter, 9, 32, 93, 151, 192, 196, 217 Exeter Churches, 41, 215 Exeter Ghost Story, 74 Exeter Mayors, 33, 242 Exeter Newspapers, 144 Exeter Museum, 7 Exeter Printing, 270 Exeter Registers, 123 Exeter Schools, 59 Exeter Serge Manufactory, 53, 77 Exeter Sieges, 244 Exeter Storms, 31 Exeter Streets, 144 Exeter Worthies, 91, 239 Exmouth (Lord), 160 Falmouth, 53, 77, 99, 100 Fitz-Ralph (Richard), 116 Folk Lore of Pig Killing, 191 Folk-Moots, 16 Fonts, 152, 246 Forest of Dartmoor, 94 Fowey, 33, 77, 239 French Church at Plymouth, 215 French Prisoners, 77, 118, 147 Frog Lane, 148 Frg Marsh, 148 Frog Moor, 195 Frog Street, 89, 90, 91, 148, 166 Frog as a Place Name, 90 Drake (Sir Francis), 25, 29, 49, 117, 134, Fry-Blount, 9 135, 136, 137, 145, 195, 239 Drake and Tradition, 215 Fry of Devon, 9 Fruits, etc., discovered by Drake, 136 Fulford Deer Park, 23 Funeral Customs, 97 Gardner Family, 242 Gaskin (Dr.), 170 Gentleman's Magazine, 271 Ghost Stories. 74, 171, 204, 219 Gildas Badonicus, 105, 179 Grenville, Sir Beville, 16 Guinever, Queen, 2, 3 Gwennap, 140, 241 Haigh for Devonshire, 181 Ham, Hampton, etc., 155, 270 Hankford (Sir W.), 22 Harris (Christopher), 26 Harris (John), 17, 120 Hatfield (Miss S. E.), 100 Haunted Houses, 57, 171, 204, 239, 262 Hawker (Rev. Treasurer), 13 Hawkins Family, 165 Haydon Family, 75, 98 Heche's Buckland, 118, 147 Heraldry, 51, 57, 199, 221, 247, 266, 272 Herrick (Robert), 2, 131, 132 Herring, 191, 263 Herriot (Sir T.), 96 Herring (Sir John), 191 Hiliun Family, 220 Hogner Bread, 144, 194 Hole Family, 178 Holloway (Thomas), 183 Hooke (Rev. W.), 8 Hutchinson (Thomas), 222 Ilchester Church, 142 Ilsington Church, 32 Inscribed Stones, 76, 267 Insignia, 61, 82 Iolair, 69 Isaacson, 178, 243 Islington, 86 Jephson Family, 242 Jessie, the Maniac Maid, 163 John Herring, 191 Johnson Centenary, 191 Jumping on seeing the First Swallow, 8 Mitchell (Sir W. H. F.), 176 Modern Pretenders, 67, 118 Montcalm (Marquis de), 145 Morice (Dr. John), 8, 170, 240 Municipal Regalia, 61, 82 Names, Cornish, 116, 170 Norfolk (Duke of), 130 Obsolete Words, 96, 166, 194 Octogenarian," 103 Odger, George, 87, 146 Okehampton, 77 Old Queen's Head Inn, 87 Old Rhymes, 30 Oliver (Dr.), 41, 43, 197 66 One and All,” 35, 52 Original Research, 193 Padstow, 1, 2, 193 Paignton, 50, 74, 76, 120 Parr Family, 10, 130 Parsley and Babies, 30, 54 Paul's Sepulchral Slabs of Somerset, 9 Pedigrees, 200 Pelican, 50 Penrice, 48 Pitts (Joseph), 91 Plymouth Almanacks, 173 Plymouth Freemasons, 74 Plymouth French Church, 215 Plymouth Ghost Stories, 204 Plymouth Haunted Houses, 239 Plymouth Institution, 16, 51, 81, 272 Plymouth Sayings, 73 Plymouth Streets, 151, 170, 191 Plymouth Wards, 53 Plymouth Water Supply, 18, 27 Plymouth Worthies, 97, 246 Plym Steppes, 8, 34, 99 Popham Family, 176 Portages, 194 Porthleven, 50, 152 Portugal (Queen of), 53, 77, 99, 100 Potatoes, 95 Powderham, 23, 73 Powlett Family, 145 Prince Charles Edward, 67 Prisoners of War, 77 Proverbial Sayings, 7, 31, 73, 115, 193 Pryce (Dr. W.), 192 Pudding, 76 Punch's Cross, 77 Pycroft's Art in Devonshire, 7 Pyne (John), 32, 54 Queen of Portugal, 53, 77, 99, 100 Quick (John), 145, 169, 221 Quillett, 144 Quivil (Bishop), 108 Radford Family, 127, 178 Periodicals, 17, 144, 151, 165, 173, 174, Ralegh (Sir Walter), 32, 83, 95, 109, 112, 198, 246 189, 190 Philosophers of Somerset, 179, 207, 228, Rashleigh Family, 33, 176 Picages, 194 Pictures, 103, 122 Pied Bull Inn, Islington, 86 Pig Killing, 191 Pike-Jones (Rev. J.), 148 Rearing Supper, 164, 195 Regalia, Municipal, 61 Residences of Sir W. Ralegh, 83 Restormel, 47 Resuscitation, 193, 221 Revelstoke, 96 Reynolds (Sir Joshua), 97, 167 Reynolds (Rev. Preb.), 24 |