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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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hurch.—Can anyreader give me the history of the sculptures, attributed tothe Anglo-Saxon period, but now fixed in the east wall ofSt. Stephens Church, Launceston, and say what they areintended to represent ? <^ p. 4-6 M.A. 22. Captain Wm. Cock (V., par. 100, p. 165.)—WilliamCock was not improbably a Cornishman. The Cocks of Camel-ford were an important family, not a few of them havingoccupied the office of Mayor of that ancient borough. One ofthem, Christopher Cock, was Mayor from 1604 to 1635, appar-ently without interruption. His brother William Cock (witha twin sister Margaret) was baptised at Lanteglos by Camel-ford 3rd Aug., 1566. A sister of his married John Blake ofComb, co. Devon, as his third wife. For further particularsof the Cock family see Macleans Trigg Minor, i, p. 576,and ii, p. 368. There is also some mention of Capt. WilliamCock and of a family of Cocks of Plymouth in one of theback numbers of the Transactions of the Plymouth Institution. J. Hambley Rowe, m.b.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 33 23. The New Parish Room, Bradninch.—The Editorsdesire to place on record their appreciation of the valuablework carried out by The Reverend Charles Croslegh, d.d., inthe arrangement and appointments of the above room, as apermanent record of local history. Every antiquary hasexperienced the difficulty of obtaining at one glance, as itwere, a comprehensive view of the past history of any countryvillage. Save where the history of some great family hasbeen interwoven with that of the manors it held, its genea-logical annals throwing some sidelight upon the place of itsabode, Domesday and the Parish Registers are too often theonly records of its past. But, besides the great gap of timebetween these two, the latter are too often dispersed andfragmentary, the former necessarily too brief, and both tooinaccessible to the casual inquirer to be altogether satisfactory.Yet, eked out by a chance memorial or two in the parishchurch—an old brass, a dila

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