10701063 1027 1023 a 102 102 105 a 1042 106 PRICES of STOCKS each Day in April to the 26th inclufive, 1749. BANK INDIA South Sea South seabouth Sea 4 per Cent. 4 per Cent. 4 per Cent. 13 per Cent. India Bonds TOCK STOCK. STOCK. old Ann. new Ann. B. 1746. B. 1747. B. 1748. 103 for the 103 for the 95 Annu. BILLS of Mortality from March 21, to Apr. 18, 1749.| 55631106 Chrift. Males 110932263 Buried Femal. 1144 præm. 425 a44s pr. opening. 102 a 102 opening. 102a1017942 a 1024 1949 a Died under 2 Years old 702| 102 10221017 102 Between 2 and 94 42 s. pr. 5 194 6130/12/20 175 a 3105 a 102 a 101 5 and 10 791 942 a 41s a 42s 10 and 20 57 71 1754 944 20 and 30 183 8130/14/1 106 1014 1013 1024 30 and 40 2441 ΙΟ 176 1067 1024 1025 1021/ 941 a/ 42s a 43s 40 and 50 253 50 and 60 60 and 70 94 az 43s a 44s 13130% 176 1021 1023a943 45s a 47s 70 and 80 80 and 90 141302a131177 1067a 107 1043 102a103942 a 47s a 52s 90 and 100 ΙΟ Bank Circulation, April 1, at 31. 10 s. pr. April 4, at 31. at 31. 17 s. 6d. April 22, at 41. Cocheneal 16s. 6d. a 9 d. per fb. Gold in Coin 3 1. 18 s. Eight, 5 s. 3 d. 2. Ditto Small 5 s. 3 d. 2. Mexico 5 s. 3 d. 1. 12s. 6d. April 7, at 3 1. 15 s. Ditto in Bars 31. 17 s. 10 d. 1. April 13, take place the Thursday fol lowing. Wheaten Peck Loaf Is. ogd. Houshold Peck Loaf Is. 3d. 3f. The UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE, for MAY, 1749: 193 The ACCOUNT of DEVONSHIRE (Page 160, Vol. IV.) finished. With a curious View of Castle-Hill, Lord Clinton's Seat, as engrav'd from an original Drawing. At Dodbrook is alfo a harbour for boats, and a particular cuftom to pay the parfon a tythe of a liquor called white ale. From this town the land runs out into a wide front, called by the feamen the Start-Point, and gathers in again to the mouth of the river Dart, which rifes in Dartmore; a mountainous foreft, 20 miles long, and fourteen broad, made into a foreft by king John, where near 100,000 sheep feed all the fummer, befides other cattle. And for winter it produceth great quantities of turf. The other market-towns are Hoult worth, Hatherley, Bow, Moreton, Chegford, Comb-martin, Chimleigh, and Hartland. Hoult fworth is a fmall market-town, which is kept on Saturdays on the borders of Cornwall. Here is a fair on the 21st September. Hatherley lies a little to the eaft of Houltfworth, has a market on Tuefdays, and fairs on May 10, June 11, August 24, and October 28. Bow, a little crooked town, to the west of Crediton, has a market on Thurf. days, and a fair on Afcenfion-day. The court of the Duchy of Lancafter is kept here. Moreton, on the weft of Chudleigh, has a market on Saturdays, and a fair on the 30th of November. Chegford lies a little to the N.W. of Moreton, keeps a market on Saturdays, and enjoys the privilege of a fair on the 25th of March, 23d of April, 29th of September, and 18th of Octob. Comb-martin or Martin's Comb, near the coast of the British channel, and in the most northern part of the county, holds a market on Tuesdays, and a fair onWhit-monday. And tho' thefe privileges have been obtained only, fince NUMBER. XXVII, Vol. IV. the manfion was purchafed by the Handcocks, after the reformation; yet this town claims a British original; deriving its name from Kum, which fignifies a village in a low fituation, or in a vale. It afterwards, at the conquest, was given to one Martin,a Norman lord; from whom, to diftinguish it from other connominal places, it was called Martin's Comb or Comb-martin. It has also been famous for its filver mines, which were discovered in the 22d year of Edward I. and yielded fo well that they fupported the war against France in the reign of King Edward III. After this we hear very little of this treafury, 'till the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when it is faid Sir Beavis Bulmer got great quantities of filver out of them, 137 oz. of which he made into a cup, and prefentedit to the Lord-Mayor of London, then Sir Richard Martin. Chimleigh, a fmall market-town on the Taw, and in the road between Crediton and Barnstaple, had formerly a free-fchool founded by the Earl of Bedford; and feven prebends faid to have been founded here by the Lady of the manor for feven children, which fhe had taken from the father, who was carrying 'em in a basket to drown them, because he had too many; and educated them. Hartland, tho' feated on the fartheft western fhore next Cornwall, muft not be omitted: for it is not only the capital of an hundred of the fame name, in that cape, called Hartland Point: but it is a place of great refort for the fishing-boats of Barnstaple, Biddiford, and the other towns on the coaft, which take shelter under its rocks from the S. E. and S. W. winds; at which times the feamen go afhore to buy provifions: and for the Cornish neighbourhood, C c who who frequent its market on Saturdays, and come to partake in the herring fifhery, which at Clovelly, a little more eastward, frequently produceth more than 1500 1. in a feafon. Here alfo is taken the best cod in the world; tho' not in fuch quantities, as on the banks of Newfoundland. Here is kept a fair on Eafter Wednesday, Whit-Tuesday, and September 14. The remarkable places which I have obferved in this county demand our next confideration. I fhall begin with Torbay, ever memorable for the landing of the Prince of Orange, on the 5th November 1688, with a fleet of 6000 transports and 50 men of war, to rescue this nation from popery and arbitrary power, which threatened it with flavery. It is alfo recorded that Vefpafian landed in this bay, when he came to chaftife Arviragus King of Britain, who had thrown off the Roman yoke. It is certainly the finest bay in the British channel, containing about 12 miles in compafs, but fomewhat incommoded by the S. and S. E. winds. However, in Queen Anne's wars, this was the general station of our fleets; as moft proper to annoy our enemies, and to defend our coafts, in cafe of any attempts to land on the weftern fhore; which is moft expofed in time of war. Near this bay ftands Mary Church, which is faid to be the first Christian Church in this county. At Brixam about 3 miles W. of Dartmouth is a well that ebbs and flows feveral times in an hour. About 4 miles from Tavistock is a noted rock within the foreft of Dart-. more, called Croken-Torr, where the miners of this county are obliged by their charters to affemble their Parliaments for courts of ftannary: but as there is no covering for them from the weather, nor any refreshment, nor any other feat than a moor-ftone bench to rest upon, the fteward immediately adjourns the company, which confifts generally of 2 or 300 Gentlemen, to Tavistock; or fome other ftannary town; tho' the Lord-warden's fummons, who is judge in this court, obliges the jurors to meet on this defolate rock. The place in which the judge and jurors meet to do bufinefs is called the Parliament-House, and the prefentments of thejurors have been printed with the pompous title and ftile of Als of Parliament. Tinmouth, but more properly Teignmouth, a small village at the mouth of the river Teign, is memorable in hiftory for being the place where the Danes, who, about the year 800, were fent to discover the fituation of Britain, before their intended invafion, landed, killed the Governor of the place, and took it as a good omen of their future victory, which they pursued with the greateft cruelty through out the whole ifle. And it alfo fuffered in Queen Anne's wars, when the French, landing at this defenceless village, burnt down their thatched houfes; which were foon after rebuilt in a better manner, and the poverty of the inhabitants well relieved by the large contributions which were readily and liberally collected by a brief. Sea-ton, fo called from its nearness to the fea, is also remarkable for the landing of the Danes in 937. And it was formerly thought fo capable of being improved into a good harbour, that the inhabitants and the people of Culliton obtained a brief under the great feal to enable them to carry on their works; tho' at prefent there remain no footsteps of their labours. I must not forget the manor of Hole or South Hole, which gave birth to Dr. John Moreman, vicar of Mahennet in Cornwall in the latter part of King Henry VIII's reign; because he was the firft that taught his parishioners the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandments in the English tongue. Appledore,a confiderable town in the Saxon heptarchy, is fituate at themouth of both the Towbridge and the Taw: where Hubba the Dane, having wafted South Wales with fire and fword, landed with 33 fail of fhips in the days of |