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shire coast; wrote articles in a local periodical, called 

 The Weekly Entertainer, and assisted Col. Montagu in 

 his researches, particularly in the capture of rare and 

 curious birds." 



There is a tablet to the memory of John Cranch, in 

 the Independent Chapel, Kingsbridge. 



Sir John Bowring, in the paper from which we have 

 quoted, says : 



" The daughter of John Cranch has also taken her place 

 in the literary world, and has written some observant 

 descriptions of the times of the persecuted Puritans, with 

 whom her ancestors were associated.* The three Presidents 

 Adams, of the United States — John, John Quincey, and 

 Charles, were connected with the Cranch family through 

 Judge Cranch, who migrated to America." 



CHARLES PRIDEAUX, ESQ., F.L.S. 



On the site of the four new houses, exactly opposite 

 the Free Grammar School, there stood formerly an old, 

 long,' low, house, with a grey, unstuccoed, stone front, 

 almost hidden by the luxuriant branches of vines. This 

 house was for a great number of years the abode and 

 property of some of the Prideaux family, and was the 

 birthplace of the late Charles Prideaux, Esq., of whom a 

 brief account was prepared at the request of the Secretary 

 of the Linnsean Society, and with very slight alteration 

 it is here inserted. 



"Charles Prideaux, Esq., F.L.S., who died in his 88th 

 year, at his residence, Kingsbridge, on the 19th of July, 

 1869, was born at 'Vine House,' January 2nd, 1782. 



During a considerable portion of his early life he 



* ''■ Troublous Times," by Jane Bowring Cranch. 



