The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1896-01: Vol 2 Iss 6 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 102
which he succeeded when the lands of the monks of Tavistock were handed over to his ancestor. "Whatever the legend may be worth, Nun’s Cross stands exactly in the line a deer would take if he were roused on the banks of the Plym and then crossed to the Dart. Within one hundred years from this time… … for many miles. The wild red-deer from Exmoor sometimes come down to Dartmoor now, and lately they have bred in our woods | \ again, after having been extinct for some years. It may be of interest to note that the deer, of all wild animals of the chase, was the most important and had the most…
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