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which the Start Lighthouse is built may be seen. Rickham 

 was one of the Fitzroy storm-signal stations. 



An amusing circumstance is narrated of a party of ex- 

 cursionists, who a few years since were rounding the point 

 from whence the flag-staff came in view, and they imagined 

 the collapsed drum (signifying "fine weather") hoisted on 

 the mast to have been a teakettle, which some of the party 

 had thus hoisted as a sort of telegraphic intimation that tea 

 was ready. 



It appears by the Domesday survey, that not long 

 before that survey was taken, Thurlestone, Portlemouth, 

 West Alvington, Collaton-Prawle, East Sewer, and other 

 manors on the southern coast, were laid waste by the 

 Irish. 



In King's "Dartmoor," we find it stated that Godwin 

 and Edmund, the sons of King Harold, fled into Ireland 

 with the greater part of the Saxon fleet; that in the 

 spring of 1068 they landed on the coast of Somerset- 

 shire, where they were met by Ednoth, who had been a 

 "leader of the army," under their father Harold, but 

 who had now become the liege man of the Conqueror. 

 A battle took place in which many fell on both sides, 

 amongst whom was Ednoth : and the sons of Harold, 

 having plundered the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, 

 returned again to Ireland. Here they received fresh 

 assistance from Dermot, King of Dublin : and in the 

 following year again appeared off Exeter, with a fleet of 

 sixty-six ships, and a numerous army. From Exeter 

 they plundered along the southern coasts ; and the line 

 of their ravages may be traced from the Domesday 

 survey, which tells us how the manors lying along the 

 coast from Dartmouth to Kingsbridge were " laid waste 

 by the Irishmen." 



