Endnotes

  1. A clear and interesting account of this mighty sand-march may be found in a very learned paper by the Rev. H. H. Knight, B.D., formerly rector of Neath, Glamorgan; which paper, entitled “An Account of Newton-Nottage,” was reprinted at Tenby in , from the Archaeologia Cambrensis. Considerable movements still occur, but of late years no very great advance. ↩

  2. These fine fellows are talked of now as if we had found a novelty. They came through South Wales on a “starring” tour thirty years agone, and they seemed to be on their last legs then. Under the moon is there anything new? ↩

  3. ? Diocesan. ↩

  4. There are several entries of deaths from plague in parish registers of North Devon, circa 1790. Perhaps it was what they now call “black fever,” the most virulent form of typhus. ↩

  5. That intelligent view still holds its own. A Devonshire farmer challenged me, the other day, to prove, “Whatt be the gude of the papper, whan any vule can rade un?” —⁠Ed. of M. of S. ↩