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THE HISTORY OF THE PART OF

WEST SOMERSET

COMPRISING THE PARISHES OF

LUCCOMBE, SELWORTHY, STOKE PEBO, PORLOCK CULBONE, & OARE.

BY

SIR CHARLES E. H. CHADWYCK-HEALEY, K.C.B., K.C., F.S.A.

The greater part of this work consists of matter which has never before been published. It is hoped that it will prove an exhaustive history of that portion of Somerset to which it is devoted ; but beyond this it will be found to contain information as to other parts of the same county, as well as on the topo- graphy and family history of Cornwall and Devon. The sources of information have been almost wholly manuscript records belonging to the State and private owners. In the Appendix will be found many documents hitherto unpublished, including a series of four rolls of the bailiff of the Manor of Porlock, temp. Henry V. and VI. ; of seven rolls of the Manor of Brendon, temp. Henry VI. ; the Porlock rental of Cecily, Marchioness of Dorset ; the foundation deed of the Harington Chantry, prescribing minutely the duties of the Chaplains and the appointed ritual ; the names of all parishioners signing the Protestation of 1641 ; and the last perambulation of the Forest of Exmoor. The list of parochial incum- bents will be found to be more complete than any hitherto published.

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