REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, [TAVISTOCK, JULY, 1914.] VOL. XLVI. [VOL. VI, THIRD SERIES.] PLYMOUTH : W. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS. 1914. Copyright 1914. [4] The Council and the Editor desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any statements, observations, or opinions appearing in any paper printed by the Society; the authors only are responsible. The Transactions of the Society are not published, nor are they on sale to the public. They are printed for Members only. Соттий 36722 Thirty-third Report of the Committee on Barrows in Devonshire . Sixth Report of the Botany Committee Thirty-second Report [3rd Ser.] of the Committee on the Climate Tavistock Abbey. Mrs. G. H. Radford, F. R. HIST.S. Some Notes on Tavistock History. 1st Series. J. J. Alexander, M. A., J. P. The Charter of Tavistock. Mrs. G. H. Radford, F. R. HIST.S. The Hundred of Lifton in the time of Testa de Nevil, A.D. 1243. 290 . 309 The Activities of "The National Society of Colonial Dames of America," more particularly with reference to certain Devonians. Colonel Sir R. T. White-Thomson, K.C.B.. The Use of a Norse Standard of Measurement by the Normans in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Buildings, as exemplified in the structure of Torre Abbey and the Churches of Kingskerswell and Cockington. "A Mother of Men." The Countess Gytha. Mrs. Clay-Finch 326 346 Social Wasps in Devonshire. Charles H. Laycock 359 Vicarages in Devon. Rev. John B. Pearson, D.D. 372 The Baptismal Fonts of Devon. Part II. Miss Kate M. Clarke . Illustrations of History from the Act Book of the Chamber of the City of Exeter, 1560-1581. Part II. Professor Walter J. Harte, M.A. . Savery, Newcomen, and the Early History of the Steam-Engine. tagenet Period (1399-1485). J. J. Alexander, M.A., J.P. Some Birds of Interest on Dartmoor. E. A. S. Elliot, M. R.C.S., M. B. O. U. 497 [7] PLATES. BARROW REPORT Plan of Kistvaen at Lakehead Hill TAVISTOCK ABBEY Plate I. Charter of King Henry II. Plates II. and III. Initials on Grant of King Edward III. STRAY NOTES ON DARTMOOR TIN-WORKING Plate I. Fig. 1.-Plan and Section of Mouldstone, Upper Blowing Between pp.288-9 III. Fig. 5.-Sketch Plan of Blowing-house, Brisworthy, Plym IV. Fig. 6.-Plan of Base Stone of Furnace, Brisworthy Burrows V. Fig. 8.-Section of Mortar Stone, Brisworthy Fig. 9a.-Plan of Elevation of Mortar Stone, Brisworthy Fig. 12.-View of Portions of Oak Strut, Redlake, Erme USE OF A NORSE STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT, ETC.- South Milton and Dunkeswell 430 SAVERY, NEWCOMEN, AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE STEAM-ENGINE Newcomen Engine at Griff, 1723 460 |