REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION

FOR

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE,
AND ART.

[BARNSTAPLE, JULY, 1917.]

VOL. XLIX.
[VOL. IX. THIRD SERIES.]

PLYMOUTH:

W. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS.

1917.

Copyright 1917.

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List of Plates

List of Officers

Places of Meeting.

Report of the Council

CONTENTS.

Balance Sheet

List of Committees appointed by the Council

Proceedings at the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting

Obituary Notices

President's Address

Thirtieth Report of the Committee on Verbal Provincialisms

Twenty-sixth Report of the Committee on Devonshire Folk-lore

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7

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9

10

12, 13

14

16

22

27

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69

79

Thirty-sixth Report of the Committee on Barrows in Devonshire

Thirty-fifth Report [3rd Ser.] of the Committee on the Climate

of Devon

Ninth Report of the Botany Committee

The Barnstaple Goldsmiths' Guild, with some Notes on the Early History

of the Town. Rev. J. F. Chanter, M. A., F.S.A.

163

The Early Seventeenth-Century Plaster Ceilings of Barnstaple. Bruce

W. Oliver, A. R. I. B. A.

190

Ancient Church Needlework in Devon.

Beatrix F. Cresswell

200

New Light on Sir Richard Grenville. R. Pearse Chope, B. A.-

I. The Projected South Seas Voyage

210

II. The North Devon Fleet against the Armada

247

Notes on the Musical History of Barnstaple. Henry J. Edwards,

MUS. D. OXON., HON. R. A. M.

The Book Dialect of North Devon. R. Pearse Chope, B.A.

English National and Folk Music, with special reference to the Folk-

songs of Devonshire. Charles H. Laycock