APPENDIX D. Copy of the Prince's letter patent of 1 October, 30 Edward III., 1356, from transcript in fol. 65 of the "Council Book." "Pour Monsire Johan Sully endroit de Bradnynche Octobre Lan xxx. Edward &c. A touz ceux qi cestes lettres Sachez qe coment qe nous einz ces heures feismes retenir deins nos notre trescher Bacheler monsire Johan Sully por terme de sa vie sibien por la pees com por la guerre prenant de nous annuelement por son fee quarrante livres des issues de notre Manoir de Bradenyng (sic) en countee de Devenesire a les termes de seint Johan le Baptistre (sic) & la Touz seintz per oweles porcions per les meyns du provost ou Receyvor du dict manoir qi por le temps sera. Avons nepurquant por le bon service & graund lieu qe le dit monsire Johan nous fit es parties de Gascoigne le jour de la bataille de Poiters donez & grauntez a lui a terme de sa vie quarrante marcs per an outre la some de quarrante livres devantdits aprendres des issues & autres profitz queconques surdantz de mesme notre Manoir siqe il prendra desore enavant por terme de sa vie en tout cent marcs per an a les festes de la touz seintz & la Nativitee de seint Johan le Baptiste per oweles porcions. Et maundons per cestes nos lettres au provost ou Receyvor quest & qi sera de notre dit Manoir qils au dit paiemens faire annuelement de meismes les centz mares as termes dessusditz soient au dit monsire Johan ou a ses attornez entendauntz et responantz Recoynantz deins eux de temps en temps les lettres le dit monsire Johan dacquitaunce de ce quils avont ensi paiez per queles nos volons qils eient due allouance sur lour acomptes. En tesmoigne &c nos avons fait faire cestes nos lettres patentes seallees de notre privie seal quels nos volons qe soient enroullees es rouilles de notre Court illeoqes a greindre securitee le dit monsire Johan & au garrant du provost ou Receyvor qi por le temps sera por les dites cent marcs paier dit monsire Johan en la maniere susdite. Done &c a Londres le primer jour Doctobre Lan &c por garre de Gascoigne." APPENDIX E. Copy of Grant by Edward III. of 24 April, 35 Ed. III., 1361. "Rex omnibus ad quos &c salutem. Sciatis quod de gracia nostra speciali concessimus dialecto et fideli nostro Johanni de Suilly quod ipse ad totam vitam suam in singulis forestis parcis chaseis haiis & warennis nostris infra regnum nostrum habeat semel per annum in seisima cum sibi placuerit unum tractatum de arcu suo unum cursum cum leporariis suis & unam sectam pro uno cane suo vocato Bercelet ad feras nostras ibidem cuiuscunque generis fuerint Ita quod in nulla forestarum parcorum chaceorum haiarum & warennarum predictorum ultra numerum unius vel duarum ferarum ad plus in seisina capiat Volumus eciam quod ipse feras predictas per ipsum sic captas usque ad dictum numerum ad voluntatem asportare & ad usum suum proprium habere posset absque impedimento nostri vel heredum nostrorum seu ministrorum forestarum nostrarum aut aliorum quorumcunque. Ita semper quod hoc faciat per visum custodum forestarum parcarum chaceorum haiarum & warennarum predictorum vel eorumdem custodum loca tenencicum. In cuius &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium xxiiii die Aprilis.” APPENDIX F. Copy of deed in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and numbered 2257 in Mr. Stuart A. Moore's Calendar. "Universis Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes litere pervenerint pateat per presentes Nos Priorem Prioratus de Frethestok Exoniensis diocesis ordinis sancti Augustini ac eiusdem loci Conventum teneri & per presens scriptum obligari ad celebrandum perpetuo unam missam singulis diebus post datam confeccionis presencium pro animabus Nobilis viri domini Johannis Sully militis. Isabelle uxoris sue. Willelmi patris. Margerie matris. domini Henrici Sully avi. Johanne uxoris sue Avie. predicti Nobiles viri domini Johannis Sully. per unum de canonicis eiusdem Prioratus ab eodem Priore nominatum ad hoc & electum. Ad quod quidem onus subeundum & faciendum obligamus nos & successores nostros ac omnia bona nostra mobilia & immobilia districcioni cuiuscunque judicis ecclesiastici aut secularis. Volumus eciam & concedimus quod singulis annis per Archidiaconum loci in visitacione sua diligenter inquiratur super huismodi divinorum celebracione. Et si contingerit per huismodi inquisicionem reperiri nos aut successores nostros per medietatem unius anni ab huismodi divinorum celebracione cessasse quod absit tenore presencium obligamus nos & successores nostros decem marcas legalis monete Fabrice ecclesie beati Petri Exonicusis soluturos per quemcunque judicem ecclesiasticum seu secularem distringendos. In quorum omnium & singulorum testimonium & fidem sigillum nostrum commune sigillum dicti Nobilis viri premissa impetrare alternatim fecimus hiis apponi. Datum quo ad consignacionem sigilli nostri in domo nostra Capitulari nonodecimo die Mensis Augusti Anno domini Millesimo cccmo lxxxiiijto." (Seal gone.) APPENDIX G. ac Deposition of Sir John de Sully in "the Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy" made before John de Kentwode, one of the Commissioners of the Court Military, in the church of Yerdeleye (Iddesleigh) 2 July, 10 Richard II., 1386; page 74 of v. 1 of Sir N. H. Nicolas' edition. "Monsire Johan Sully del age de cent & cynk anz, & armeez quater vintz anz, jurrez & examinez & product per le procurator de monsire Richard Lescrope, dit qil ad vewe & conu lez armes de monsire Richard Lescrope per monsire Henri Lescrope a la bataille de Halidonehille le chaumpe dazure ove un bende dor un label dargent & apres le dit monsire Henri armeez en mesmes lez armes a la sige de Barwyke & apres monsire William Lescrope a bataille de Cressy armeez en mesmes lez armes ove un difference & a la bataille de Spay nole sur le meer le dit monsire Richard armeez en ces armes le chaumpe dazure ove un bende dor & apres mesme sire William armeez en mesmes les armes ove monsire le Prince qe Dieu assoille al bataille de Peyters & le dit monsire Richard armeez dazure ove un bende dor a la bataille de Spaigne. Et auxi le dit monsire Johan Sully ad vewe & conu autres de sone noun & lynage estre armeez en mesmes lez armes en journez & viages ove differencez et en sone temps il ad oy dire toudys que lez ditz armez appartiegnent de droit & deyvent appartiegner de discent par droit lynee al dit monsire Richard come comune & publike voys ad laboure & laboure par tut sone temps & toutdys le dit monsire Richard ove autres de sa lynage continuez en pessible possessione lez ditz armes dount memoire ne court. Et coment de monsire Robert Grosvenour unques en nulle temps ne en lieu ou il ad este vist ne oaist unqes parler de luy ne de cez auncestres tanqe a cest temps de sone examinacion." Then follows the deposition of "Richard Baker, Esquier," who stated that he was "del age de sessantz anz & armeez de quarant anz ove monsire Johan Sully." MATERIALS FOR A CENSUS OF DEVONIAN GRANITES AND FELSITES. BY R. N. WORTH, F.G.S. (Read at Plymouth, July, 1892.) I Do not think that this paper requires any justification, but should it be deemed otherwise, such may possibly be found in the remarks of Sir Archibald Geikie in his recent Presidential Address to the Geological Society of London, on the igneous activities of Devonshire, in which he comments on the great quantity of work there remains to be done by way of investigation in this county. One cannot help feeling, however, that had a tithe of the official attention been given to the West of England that Scotland has received, the balance of interest and information might have been more evenly held. At the same time, while it is quite natural that the Scottish Directors of the Geological Survey should see that Scotland is not forgotten, it is equally natural that Devonian geologists should be inspired by a similar spirit. The chief object of this contribution is to give some idea of the extent of variation in the granites and felsites of the county, a point to which very little attention seems to have been paid, either officially or independently. Years of geological work on Dartmoor and its borders have made me fairly familiar with the range of that variation; and the bulk of the present paper consists of a descriptive list of specimens of granites and felsites which I have, with very few exceptions, collected, and all of which I have seen. I do not think it possible to suggest any condition or gradation of granitic or felsitic material in composition, structure, colour, or metamorphism, that is not represented, or that is not linked by intermediate phases to all the rest. What we attempt to distinguish as separate rocks in this connection are, in fact, nothing more than passing stages. Their con dition and appearance will vary with their history, but at bottom they are essentially one and the same, and nowhere in the whole series can any hard and fast line be drawn. The best method of forming such a collection as is here described is to hunt the beds of the Dartmoor streams, the alluvia of their valleys, or the piles of material left by the ancient tin-workers, which are simply detrital matter in another form. For all practical purposes, in this connection, the river beds on Dartmoor may be regarded as out-door museums of the rocks of the valleys through which they run; and thence one may obtain specimens of felsitic dykes which would probably escape even careful search; for while the courses of the rivers form to a large extent rough sections of the country-where they traverse rocky channels-there are many points at which they pass over alluvial deposits by which the rocks are masked. But it may fairly be assumed that at some time or other the loose material of the river beds has been derived from some points of the watershed higher up their courses; and that, in such an estimate of Dartmoor petrology as the present, is practically all we wish to know. The difficulty of tracing dykes in situ over a wide extent of moorland country, when they are not merely a few feet but often a few inches only in breadth, is all but insuperable-how difficult I have practically learnt from my own utter inability, after repeated efforts, to trace the block of Trowlesworthite which I found several years since on Trowlesworthy Tor, to its origin, though within fairly narrow limits it is perfectly certain where that origin must be. The description given by De la Beche of the Dartmoor granite is, in a general view, as good as could be framed :1 "The granite of Dartmoor is, as a whole, a coarse-grained mixture of quartz, felspar, and mica, the latter sometimes white, at others black, the two micas occasionally occurring in the same mass. It is very frequently porphyritic from the presence of large crystals of felspar, and here and there schorlaceous, but the latter character is chiefly confined to the outskirts, where the Dartmoor granite adjoins the slates. . . The schorl not unfrequently occurs in radiating nests, of variable size and abundance. A complete passage may generally be traced between the compound of schorl and quartz, usually termed schorl rock, and the ordinary granite. The mica usually disappears as the schorl begins to be abundant, but sometimes, though not very commonly beyond limited areas, the granite rock is a mixture of mica, schorl, felspar, 1 Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and W. Somerset, 157, 158. |