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Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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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ing strata of rock which rises tothe south and south-east and, as evidenced by the springsrising at various spots in the village, including the so-called Five Wells, may be said in all probability to have beenthe origin of the settlement of Cornworthy. The usual storyof an underground passage, which seems invariably to beattached to all such ruins, is not wanting at Cornworthy, andthe writer was shown a spot half-way down the orchard, wherethe soil had sunk recently to the depth of some two feet, but,as it adjoins the ancient water-course and similar hollowsare to be detected all the way up the hillside, the subsidenceis probably due to heavy rain and the decomposition of theshillet beneath. A spot is pointed out north-east from the Gatehouse where,upon attempting to bury an animal, walls were encountered-This would be a likely spot for the Fawden or Stable, but notfor the Priory. The site of former buildings is frequentlyfound converted into an orchard, trees being planted between 32
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Gatehouse, Corn worthy Priory.From S.E. Corner. CORNWORTHY, DEVON. the foundations of the walls. How utterly the former exis-tence of a religious house at Cornworthy must have beenforgotten is illustrated by a small work published in 1779, bythe Revd William Jones, A.B., entitled:— A CompleteHistory of All the Religious Houses in the Counties of Devonand Cornwall before the Dissolution, printed for Smerdonand Underhill. The little booklet comprises only 88 pagesand the briefest mention of 27 houses, one of which is ExeterCathedral, but neither Cornworthy nor Canonsleigh find placein the Complete History. This omission of Cornworthy Priory in 1779 is the moreextraordinary because, about the year 1770, Dr JeremiahMilles, Dean of Exeter (1762-1784), President of the Societyof Antiquaries, made a collection of notes, upon the antiquitiesof the county, now preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ;of which the following abstract has been contributed by MissBeatrix Cresswell. 1. Under Pa

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