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In the churchyard, which is surrounded by tall elm 

 trees, there are several old monuments and tombstones. 



The following appeared in a newspaper of the time, 

 respecting Mrs. Prosser, who was interred in Dodbrooke 

 churchyard ; as also was Sir John Savery Drake, her brother. 



"At Kingsbridge, in 1822, died Mrs. Ann Pollexfen 

 Prosser, aged 76, widow of Capt. Prosser, of the Royal 

 Marines, and last surviving child of John Drake, formerly 

 collector of customs at Plymouth, the lineal descendant of 

 Sir Francis Drake, Bart., and sister to Sir John Savery 

 Drake, with whom the title became extinct, he dying 

 without issue, and from whom the last Sir Francis cut off 

 the entail of the property given to his ancestor by Queen 

 Elizabeth for his services and discoveries, and gave it to 

 the late Lord Heathfield, after him to Sir Thomas Trayton 

 Fuller Elliott Drake, Bart., High Sheriff of Devon." 



The late Mrs. Pearce, widow of William Lyfe Pearce, Esq., 

 was the last survivor of Mrs. Prosser's family of eleven 

 children. 



Beyond the bottom of Duncombe Street, and facing 

 a pleasant row of houses, called Waterloo Place, stands 

 Langwell House, or as it is generally called, Well. It is 

 a very old mansion, which has been partly rebuilt, but 

 there are still remains of what appears to have been a 

 monastery, . probably belonging to the Monks of Buckfast. 

 But there is no authentic record remaining to tell the 

 history; all the old documents and deeds relating to it, 

 as well as to some other church property, are supposed to 

 have been accidentally destroyed by a fire which occurred 

 in the house of the churchwarden about a hundred years 

 ago. In confirmation of the idea that Langwell was 

 originally monastic in its character, is the fact that one of 



