A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 29
ions—a commutation which to a martial spirithad nothing very terrible, and which was willingly complied with. « On this legend Sir Bernard Burke remarks:—The subject matter of the exploitmay be equally a Danish rover, a domestic tyrant, or, as in the well-known caseof the Dragon of Wantley, a… … MAMHEAD, NRAR EXMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. NEWMAN, BARONET. The palatial seat of Sir Lydston Newman, Bart., though perhaps not so picturesqueas his favourite marine residence of Stokeley. Mamhead, in Domesday Book Mameorde, is thus pronounced by the commonpeople at this very day. It appears to mean…
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