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Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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eems an amazingpiece of vandalism. It was a fine example of the Royal Armsof George II. (1730) quartered with those of France andHanover, carved on a wood panel 3 feet square and re-taining its original colouring. It is said to have been takento Exeter (Trans. Devon. Assoc., xxxv., 464, 5). From about1732 until recent years this beautiful screen was coveredwith white paint, grained with blue, to represent whitemarble. The last restoration of the church was completedon the 3rd September, 1896. Of the memorials of the dead, the principal were : A stoneslab to the memory of John Rigge, a former rector andtreasurer of Crediton, ob. 1459 ; another slab in front of anancient altar in the north chancel aisle, with a Latin in-scription, commemorated Joan Takel, widow, ob. 21 July,1529 ; a black marble monument to the memory of ThomasMarwood, physician to Queen Elizabeth and builder ofMarwood House in Honiton, was inscribed who practisedChirurgery above 75 years and being zealous of good works
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Lower Panels of the Screen.St* Michaels, Honiton. St. Michaels, Honiton—Lower Panels of the Screen. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 195 gave certain houses and bequeathed in his Will to the poorof Honiton 10 pounds and being aged above 105 yearsdeparted in the Catholic faith September ye 18th AnnoDomini 1617. Another stone recorded that Thomas Baker,a butterman, was robbed and murdered near Exeter, April17th, 1724; and on the south side of the church was amemorial to James Sheppard, Esq., Member for Honiton,who died in 1730. All that now remains of this historic church are the towerand portions of the exterior walls and arcades. FortunatelyMr. John Amery, to whom archaeologists are so muchindebted for his photographic survey of the antiquities ofDevon, has preserved photographic records of this oldchurch and of its wonderful screen, and to him my thanksare due for the plates which illustrate these notes. Maxwell Adams. 187. Assumed Names : Nicholas Hall, Treasurerof Exeter Cat

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