THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1835. 



No. 33.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. VI. 



FRIARY C OURT. 



, Friary Court is the right place for fun ; real good, 

 ranting fun. In order to see a fair specimen of one 

 species of high life below stairs, we visited this cele- 

 brated quarter of Plymouth some evenings since, and 

 aided and abetted in exterminating a supper : whether 

 the meal in question was purloined or not, is no 

 concern of ours, our sole apparent business was the 

 eating thereof. 



In order to be properly endued for such a visit, 

 an acquaintance of ours, a quaker, lent us a very 

 benevolent-looking, and most ancient hat : Tom 

 Hynes furnished us with one of his hunting coats ; 

 and Sam Wakeham, Lord of the Isles, contributed a 

 pair of fisherman's boots, very excellent in kind and 

 quality, excepting that one of them, by some ill-luck, 

 had got rid of the sole. 



In olden time Friary Court, being the site of a 

 Monastic Institution, was witness to most excellent 

 feeding, and very splendid suction therewith. So 

 good an example, set by the pious fathers who dwelt 

 hereabout, has not been lost on the questionable 

 tenants of their now ruinous dwelling places. A 

 little change has taken place in the mode and the 

 means, but the good-will remains the same. There 

 are now no more inexhaustible flagons of sack, nor 

 gigantic goblets of canaries, nor is there an odour of 

 well-roasted capons floating in the noon-day air. 



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