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in question, now in ruins, is only 70 feet long by 40 wide, not 
100, as Prince says. 
These extracts will suffice to show that the Worthtes, though it 
contained no prints or engravings of landscapes in the county, was 
not without word-pictures, which graphically describe the scenes — 
with which the old Devonians were connected, and around which 
their memory lingered. 
Prince’s great work was printed at Exeter, by Samuel Farley, 
for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan, in Pater- 
noster Row, London, and Charles Yeo and Philip Bishop, fi/ (°), 
Exon. It first appeared in 1701, and, as I have before mentioned, 
was published by subscription, while, if we may judge from the 
eulogies of his brother clergy, it was indeed well received. There 
is, however, one peculiar.cireumstance with regard to these eulogies 
which I must notice, and that is, that they all appear in the 1701 
edition, published by the author himself, and it would seem that 
he must have submitted the manuscript, or more probably the 
proof-skcets, to his brother clergy of the neighbourhood for perusal. 
It may be deemed from his appending these favourable comments 
that he was a proud and conceited man; but may we not excuse 
his pride and conceit, as we remember that authors in the nine- 
teenth century, or some at least, are not exempt from these failings. 
I have been furnished by a friend with a copy of a letter from 
Prince to Sir Philip Sydenham, of Brimpton, now among the 
Egerton Manuscripts in the British Museum, having been purchased 
of Mrs. Sydenham as late as October 8th, 1867. It is of great 
length, and mainly a lengthy dissertation on the genealogies of the 
Sydenham family; but in it are several touches which will be of 
interest to all who care about the old Devon antiquary, and much 
of it will, I think, be quite new to most of you. The letter is 
dated Berry, August 5th, 1712, and commences as follows: 
‘‘ Most Hon? Sir,—I have your last, and do profess it ex- 
ceedingly pleases me to find a person of your quality to be not 
only a lover of learning, but also so very learned, especially in 
that kind of learning so well becoming the study of a gentleman, 
I mean Antiquarianism. We had in this county the last century 
a happy constellation of worthy gent® who mightily delighted 
in this sort of study, as Hooker, alias Vowel, Sir W™ Pole 
(ancestor to ye present Sir W™ Pole, of Shute, Bartt.), Risden, 
Westcott, Holland, Sir John Northcott, Bart» &.; but now I 
