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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
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were concerned, was as follows :—Indicted at Exeter, 41 ; executed, 2,Indicted at Dorchester, 13 ; executed, 12. Karl Cherry. 9. Richard Burthogge.—There is some account ofRichard Burthogge, m.d., of Bowden, near Totnes, in theDiet. Nat. Biog. (vol. vii, p. 453), but it is not nearly fullenough. Where did this Devon-resident philosopher hailfrom ? He married Sara, daughter of Andrew Trevill, aPuritan Justice of Fowey (Sheriff of Cornwall 1651), andthe ceremony took place at St. Winnow 30th Jan., 1665.The only other members of the Burthogge family that I havemet with is a William (Matthews Hist, of St. Ives), who wasPortreeve of St. Ives in 1612 and 1621 and a chief burgessas early as 1603. Martin Burthogg, of Totnes, spinster, wasmarried to Philip Mayow, of Morval, and the marriage licenceis dated for 1700 (see Visitation of Cornwall, Harl. Soc, p. 140.)Martin is a most unusual female name. More informationon the ancestry of Richard Burthogge is much desired. J. Hambley Rowe, m.b.
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From the Register of Allhallows, Exeter. Photo by the Rev. G. R. Holt Shafto. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 17 10. Shorthand in the Registers of Allhallows,Goldsmith Street, Exeter.—In transcribing the Registersof the Births, Deaths and Marriages of the Parish of All-hallows, Goldsmith Street, Exeter, I came across severalentries which have, in addition to the usual details, remarksor additional information in the form of what appears tobe a species of Shorthand or cipher writing. It only occursin the year 1683, it is all in the same hand and is found inBirths, Deaths and Marriages. One word, shown at theend of the Grace Tozer entry (Fig. 1), is repeated in severalentries. The other illustrations are Fig. 2 from the Marriages,Fig. 3 from the Burials, and Fig. 4 from the Baptisms. Mr. Edward Pocknell, the donor of the extensive collec-tion of Shorthand books now in the Exeter Public Library,who is familiar with all the known systems of Englishphonetic writing, has examined th

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