Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to look for the Melissa moldavica {| Dracocephalum molda- vicum,—not a native of England,] but mstead of it found Melissa Fuchsi (Melittis melissophyllum, Linn.) in plenty, which we suppose was mistaken for it. &ubia major grows also there. In Devonshire are abundance of deep, narrow, shady lanes ; the country a very uneven one. Wednesday, July the 9th, we passed on to Exeter. We viewed the town ; it has one fair street ; the houses well built; the cathedral is small but neat ; it hath two steeples, one at each end of the cross building, in the one ten bells, in the other, one large one; the lady's chapel is converted into a library, and therem, at the upper end, a monument of Sir Peter Carey and his lady; there are other little chapels, and in them several ancient monuments, to wit, Sir Gaven Carew’s and his lady’s, and Sir Peter Carew’s (Sir Gaven and his lady were poisoned) ; Bishop Stafford’s, who was once chancellor of England; Mrs. Elizabeth Barret’s, an herse cut in mar- ble; Bishop Cotton’s; Sir John Gilburne’s and his lady’s ; Bishop Carey’s; Bishop Branscombe’s; Bishop Oldham’s, in the wall (he was excommunicated) ; Bishop Stapleton’s, and of his brother, a kmght; Sir Thomas Speake’s ; one of another Sir Peter Carew, who died at ~ Ross, in Ireland; Mr. Harbin’s ; Dean Lacy’s, his effigies as naked, carved in stone, (he was found dead in his study) ; Bishop Marsham’s ; and one of Courtenay Earl of Devonshire ; another of Bohun, Earl of Hereford ; Bishop Lacy’s, who built the chapter-house; and in the wall of one of the wings, a monument of Leofricus, the first bishop of Exeter. The cloister is pulled down, and there are now little houses, which the dean and chapter have given to poor ancient people to imhabit. The chapter-house is different from all that we have seen, an oblong, like a chapel, handsomely gilded on the top. A good area about the church. Thursday, July the 10th, from Exeter we travelled through Honiton to Morley, twenty-one miles. We saw nothing remarkable in this day’s journey.