Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art

The General Meeting followed, at which the election of fifty new members was confirmed, the Financial Statement was presented by the Treasurer, showing a balance in hand of £35 5s. 4d. (pp. 36, 37), the Report of the Council adopted and ordered to be printed (pp. 20, 21), as also the Report of the Place of Meeting Committee, which stated that an invitation had been received from Cullompton, asking the Association to hold its Annual Meeting in 1910 in that town.

On the conclusion of the business of this meeting, parties were formed under the guidance of the Mayor (Constable of the Castle), Mr. T. C. Reed (ex-Mayor and Chairman of the Castle Committee), and Mr. Otho Peter, F.R.I.B.A., respectively, for the inspection of Launceston Castle, the South Gate, the Priory, and the three churches in the borough, viz. St. Mary Magdalene, St. Thomas, and St. Stephen, and our members are much indebted to these gentlemen for their kindness, and for the trouble they took in explaining the history and pointing out the principal features of interest in the various buildings visited.

An excellent guide, illustrated with drawings, plans, etc., specially compiled for the visit of the Association to Launceston by the hon. local secretary, Mr. Claude H. Peter, was presented to each member as a souvenir of the visit. It contains much valuable information in a concise form about the places visited, in and about Launceston. Each member was also presented with a pocket-guide to Launceston and its neighbourhood. The kind thought which prompted the provision of these two useful guides was much appreciated, and they were both found most useful.

At 9 p.m. the President, the Lord Bishop of Truro, who, in the absence of the retiring President, Lord Monkswell, was introduced by Sir Alfred Croft, K.C.I.E., delivered his Presidential Address (pp. 51–63) to a large audience. A vote of thanks to his Lordship for his address, moved by the Mayor and seconded by Mr. T. C. Reed, was carried with acclamation.

At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 28 July, the reading of the Reports and Papers accepted by the Council was commenced. The Rev. William Harpley presided, but was subsequently relieved by Sir Alfred Croft. In the after

noon, Dr. Brushfield occupied the chair. The following is a complete list of the Reports and Papers :—

Twenty-second Report of the Committee on Verbal Provincialisms, with a Supplementary Index of Words.

Twenty-eighth Report of the Barrow Committee.

First Report of the Botany Committee.

Twenty-seventh Report (Third Series) of the Committee on the Climate of Devon.

The Wyses and Tremaynes of Sydenham.

Bere Alston as a Parliamentary Borough.
Ralegh Miscellanea .

Inventory of the Goods, etc., of Mr.

Mrs. G. H. Radford.

J. J. Alexander, M.A.

T. N. Brushfield, M.D., F.S.A.

Richard Bevys, late Mayor of Exeter, Rev. E. A. Donaldson, M.A.
1603

A Batch of Old Deeds relating to Buck-Rev. Oswald J. Reichel, B. C. L., M,A., land Filleigh, with an Index

F.S.A.

Notes on the Crystallizing Temperature of A. R. Hunt, M.A., F.G.S., F.L.S.

Cassiterite

An Inclusion of Culm Grit in Coarse A. R. Hunt, M.A., F.G.S., F.L.S.

Granite

West-Country Oddments

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J. D. Prickman.

The Magdalen Lands of West Teignmouth Miss Mary Hall Jordan.

County Armaments in Devon in the Six-}

teenth Century

Miss Ethel Lega- Weekes.

A. J. P. Skinner.

Pages from the Manuscript History of John M. Martin, C.E., F.M.S.
Hatherleigh. "Page" 2

Introduction to the Churchwardens'

Accounts of South Tawton. Part IV

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Miss Ethel Lega- Weekes.

At 3.30 p.m. a large party drove to Lew Trenchard on the invitation of the Rev. S. and Mrs. Baring-Gould, by whom they were most hospitably received. Tea was partaken of, and a delightful time was spent in going over Lew House and seeing its interesting contents. It is built in the style of the Tudor period and possesses a fine ballroom. But time did not permit to do justice to this interesting house and its associations with its popular owner, the celebrated author, so well known to many of our members, for the party had another engagement to fulfil at Sydenham House, where they had been invited by the Hon. Mrs. Tremayne, and it was with regret that they took leave of their kind host and hostess. On their arrival at Sydenham they were received by Mrs. Tremayne, who herself very kindly took the party over this famous Elizabethan mansion-one of the finest examples of the period, architecturally, in the West. It contains much of interest, and particularly a grand staircase and some finely carved panelling, besides a wealth of seventeenth-century art, as well as family portraits and old armour and trappings for horses, used by a former owner at Tilbury, when Queen Elizabeth reviewed her army there, on the eve of the threatened Spanish invasion. There is also preserved here the wheel of a cart which became a deodand to the lord of the manor, through being the cause of the death of a man who was run over by the cart of which this was a portion. The surroundings and situation of the mansion are very charming, both through Nature and by art, and The Pleasaunce cannot be excelled in its beauty in any part of the county. The original home of the Tremaynes was at Collacombe in Lamerton. Sydenham passed to the family by the marriage of a Tremayne with an heiress of Wise of Sydenham. Of the Tremaynes, there were once two famous mentwins-who were so much alike that they could not be recognized apart. Of them Risdon writes, "For in the year 1564 they both served at Newhaven, where the one being slain, the other stepped instantly into his place, where . . . he was there also slain." 1 The members of the Association are much indebted to the Hon. Mrs. Tremayne for her courtesy and kindness, and for permitting them to see this historic and most interesting mansion.

1 Risdon's Devon (1811), pp. 216, 217.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

Presented to the General Meeting held at Launceston, 27th July, 1909.

OWING to the death of Mr. J. Brooking-Rowe on 28 June, 1908, the office of General Secretary fell vacant, and Mr. Robert Burnard, F.S.A., having intimated his willingness to undertake the duties, was duly elected to the vacant office at the adjourned meeting of the Council held at Newton Abbot, on 30 July, 1908. The Association is to be congratulated on having the services of so able an officer. At the same meeting a new Committee for the purpose of investigating the Flora and Botany of Devonshire was formed.

The Winter Meeting of the Council was held in Exeter on 28 January, 1909, at which the usual routine business was transacted, and, in addition, a proposed amendment to Rule 27 was approved, enabling Honorary Secretaries. of Committees for special service for the Association to obtain, should they require them, forty copies free of expense of all Reports of their Committees printed in the Transactions, instead of twenty-five as heretofore. Also Bye-Law 21 was repealed and a new bye-law passed, whereby the Association now defrays the cost of printing, paper, and binding the illustrations published in the Transactions (except in special cases detailed in the byelaw), the author providing the block only for the illustrations required for his paper. The Report of the Place of Meeting Committee was also presented at this meeting, in which the secretary of that committee reported that a cordial invitation had been received from Cullompton for the Association to hold its Annual Meeting in 1910 in that town. The Association has never visited this town before, and the Secretary was authorized to accept the invitation. This Report will be brought before the General Meeting for confirmation.

A copy of Vol. XL of the Transactions has been sent to every member not in arrears with his or her subscription,

and to the following societies, namely the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Linnean Society, the Royal Institution, the Anthropological Institute, the Geological Society, the Library of the British Museum, the British Museum Natural History Society, the Bodleian Library, the University Library, Cambridge, the Devon and Exeter Institution, the Plymouth Institution, the Natural History Society, Torquay, the North Devon Athenæum, Barnstaple, and the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro. The stock of back parts is now :

1902 Transactions, Vol. XXXIV
Wills, Part IV

Index to Vol. XXXIV

1903 Transactions, Vol. XXXV
Wills, Part V

1904 Transactions, Vol. XXXVI.
Wills, Part VI