Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
page 73 of 91 (80%)
page 73 of 91 (80%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
R.G. _Totnes Church_ (Vol. ii., p. 376).--As the priory of St. Mary stood on the N.E. side of the parish church, it is not improbable that the arched passage to which your querist H.G.T. refers may have been formed between the two buildings, and found needful to allow room for the extension of the chancel on the re-erection of the church in 1432. Perhaps if H.G.T. could refer to the ancient documents brought to light by the fall of one of the pinnacles into the room over the porch in 1799, he would gain some information in connexion with his inquiry. The following note may have reference to the very "gangway" in question: "William Ryder of Totnes, by his will dated 18th Nov. 1432 desires to be buried in the cemetery of the parish church, in itinere processionali juxta ecclesiam prioris et conventus Totton, ex opposito magni altaris ejusdem ecclesiæ."--See Dr. Oliver's _Monasticum Dioc. Exon._ p. 239. It appears that the present churchyard is the site of the priory, but on this point the labours of the sexton would probably give some intimation. S.S.S. _Irish Brigade_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.).--Your correspondent J.B. will find some interesting particulars concerning the Irish Brigade in the _Military History of the Irish Nation_, by Matthew O'Conor, extending to the peace of Utrecht in 1711. It {453} was never finished. There is very valuable Appendix in French, written in 1749, and authenticated September 1. 1815, by the Adj.-Comm.-Col. De M. Morres (Hervé); it gives the war-orders, pay, |
|