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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
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wn testimony to thecontrary, already quoted, should be sufficient to disprove it. That other than Law students were always admitted toreside in the Inns of Court, as suggested by Oldys, is amplycorroborated by Mr. J. Hutchinson in his Catalogue ofNotable Middle Templars (1902), from which this extractis taken:— The Catalogue goes to establish the fact that the Inns ofCourt, whilst primarily institutions set apart for thestudy and practice of the Law, have at all times kept upthe character originally attributed to them as the resortalso of students whose object was general culture asmuch as professional training. (Pref. X., xj.)Based on his knowledge of the Records, Mr. Hutchinsoninforms me that so long as the students attended at Moots,&c, and paid their fines, no notice seems to have been takenby the authorities as to the objects of their study. The question as to whether Sir W. Ralegh was alawyer or not may, therefore, be answered with a decidednegative. T. N. Brushfield, m.d.
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I Devon Notes and Queries. 49 18. Tomb at Bovey Tracey.—I send you a photographof a tomb in Bovey Tracey Churchyard, which, perhaps, youmay consider interesting enough to insert in Devon Notes andQueries. It was erected to the memory, of Maria, daughterof Thomas Gardyner, of Grove Place, in the County ofBuckingham, Esqre., and wife of James Forbes, Vicar of thisParish, who died 16 June, 1655. Such is the inscription onthe tomb. It is ark shaped, with three pinnacles, on one arose with Surgam, the next a mermaid with Vivam, thethird a thistle with Canam. There is an inscription below,but only a word here and there can be made out. I find the following entry in the Parish Register in connection therewith :— Maria, the wife of James Forbes, Vicar of this Parish,and Chaplaine to King Charles the First, the daughterof Thomas Gardyner, of Grove Place, in the Countie ofBuckinghame, Esqre., who died Sextene of Juni, nerenoon, and buried Thursday, the twentie one, anno dom,1655. So subscri

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