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 130 Dwon Notes and Queries. some of the signatories of the letter — a. matter in which, as a member of the ^' Correspondence Circle " of the above Lodge» I am naturally interested. Gborgb M. Dob. ''Ashburton, April 6th, 1814, of our Lord, and in Masonry, 5814. To the Grand Master, G. Wardens and Members of the Grand Lodge, London. the liberty of addressing you with this petition for our relief, being American prisoners of War on parole at this place, we are allowed ten and sixpence per week for our support — in this place we cannot get lodgings for less than three shillings and from that to five shillings per week, meat is constantly from ninepence to one shilling per lb and other necessarys in proportion. Judge, brethren, how we live, for none of us have any means of getting money. Our clothes are wearing out and God knows how long we shall be kept here, many of us have been captured eight or ten months, as you will see opposite our signatures — we form a body in this place by ourselves for the purpose of lecturing eaeh other once a week and have had this in contemplation for some time but have deferred making application until absolute want has made It necessary — ^we therefore pray that you will take in to considertion and provide some means for our relief. You will please to direct your letters to Edwin Buckannon. We hereby remain your penny less Brethren : TimeofCaptum Hmmm, Name of Lodge. No. Lodge. Edwin Buckannon Union 31 G. W. BURBANK St. Andrews 3 PiBRSON Baldwin Hearts — Wm. Millbk St. Johns I Archd. Taylob, Jvmr. ... Phoenix II Ezra Obbr St. Johns 817 William Smith St. Johns 2 Jambs Laws South Carolina, G.N. 14 John Schbbr Pennsylvania • •• 3 3d July 1815 23 May „ 14 December „ 4th June 1815 23 May 19th Jan'y 1814 3th July i8is 29th October 17 Decern 99. Knowstonb and Molland (II, p. 105, par. 73). — From Domesday book the following particulars may be supplied respecting these parishes: — In Knowstone five separate estates are mentioned. The largest of these, con- taining some 632 acres, was held in Saxon times by Algar ; the next largest, containing 406 acres, by Lewin. At the Conquest these Saxons were dispossessed, and their two estates were given to Walter de Dowai or Walter the Foreigner (Walscin), a native of Flanders, and were held
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