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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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fter Death Inquest of John de Curtenay, Friday, thefeast of St. Mathew, 2 Ed. I, (21 Sep. 1274). The manor ofEngleburne is held as a member of the barony of Okumpton,but John de Curtenay was not seised thereof in his demesneas of fee on the day when he died ; for (Henry ?) de Punte-stok and Alice his wife held it 10 years before the death ofthe said John of the abbot and convent of Becfestrie (Bucfast)who held it of John de Reygny, whose father Thomas enfeoffedthem thereof; and afterwards Geoffrey le Frere espoused thesaid Alice and held the manor for a year before the death ofJohn de Curtenay (Inquisitions Ed. I., p. 53) Oswald J. Reichel. 51. Errata.—Plate facing p. 9. The description DorsalView and Ventral View should be transposed. 52. Selman of Nywenham (VI., page 8, lines 5 and 7).—There is an error in each. Adescomb should read Odescomb. Since writing I find that Bishop Lacy granteda licence to John Strode for a private chapel at Nywenham20th May, 1432. George S. S. Strode.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 65 53. Examples of Renaissance Church Wood-work inDevon.—Part I.—Although the carved screens and pulpits ofDevon are familiar to most people interested in such work,there is still a great deal of very excellent ecclesiastical wood-carving in the county which is not so well known, especiallythat belonging to the Renaissance period, though the Ash-burton specimens have been beautifully illustrated and fullyrecorded in Devon Notes and Queries, Vol. IV., p. 219, by thelate Mr. P. F. S. Amery. Among the earliest examples of this period in Devon—and probably pretty nearly contemporary with the Ash-burton carvings—are the bench-ends and screen in LapfordChurch, N. Devon. The screen has been fully describedand illustrated in the new volumes on Rood Screens andRood Lofts by Mr. F. Bligh Bond and Dom Bede Caram.*but the bench-ends are, perhaps, not so well known,though obviously they form a part of the same work asthe screen; the very same details a

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