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Title: Devon notes and queries
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Amery, Peter Fabyan Sparke, d. 1907 Amery, John S Rowe, Joshua Brooking, 1837-1908
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J. G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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with the canopy itself, containing busts in highrelief within a broad plain circle. Mr. Worthy, in hisAshburton and its Neighbourhood (p. 41), describes these asrepresenting Queen Mary and her consort Philip of Spain,and a figure in armour, perhaps S. George. It will beshown that this carving was executed prior to her time;but a more recent authority sees nothing to suggest royalty,and the figures may represent Master Thomas Prideaux, whofitted up the room, with his wife and mother, as two appear torepresent females. Below we have the usual linen pattern. Mr. Baring-Gould (Bock of the West, vol. i., p. 258) refers tothis canopy as a portion of a canopied altar piece with wings,which was over in one of the chapels of the Parish Church.In fact, I have heard the late owner say there were oncesides and shelves across on which jars of preserves werekept until the weight broke them down. On the removal of these things from the Church,Robert Prideaux, the son of Thomas, obtained this relic,
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Devon Notes and Queries. 221 which very probably his father had given, and fitted it intothe panelling of his fathers room. Opposite the canopy in the east wall is a large widewindow ; the recess formed by the thickness of the housewall is divided into six compartments,, three on either side.The top compartment on the south side had the figures oftwo boys holding a shield, inscribed with the interlacedetters T.P. in a monogram. The middle compartment had a carved representationof S. Roch, as described by Baring-Gould (Lives of Saints,Aug. 16th), represented as a pilgrim, with his left legexposed in which is a wound, an angel at his side touchinghis thigh. Also frequently at his side a dog bearing a loafin his mouth. The legend of S. Roch says that whereverhe went he had miraculously expelled the plague by thesign of the cross. He had healed the plague-stricken bythousands till he was himself attacked, when a dog broughthim bread from a Counts table every day. The Countfollowing the do

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