. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. vil for more than twentyyears, and had commited many cruelties at his this league was to be dissolved by any sort of legalproceedings : for though the devil obligingly saw Temperance tothe door of the prison, he did not go in with her, nor did herender any further assistance either to her or her companions,though they too had not been idle in their hellish practicesbut had served him faithfully. These bad old women, itappears, had conceived a grudge against one Mr. Hann, amatter of mere spite, since he was of good repute and h
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. vil for more than twentyyears, and had commited many cruelties at his this league was to be dissolved by any sort of legalproceedings : for though the devil obligingly saw Temperance tothe door of the prison, he did not go in with her, nor did herender any further assistance either to her or her companions,though they too had not been idle in their hellish practicesbut had served him faithfully. These bad old women, itappears, had conceived a grudge against one Mr. Hann, amatter of mere spite, since he was of good repute and honestconversation ; and being all of one mind, began to exercisetheir devilish arts upon him. The first way of annoying him \\ BIDEFl >RD WITCH] S that they thought of was to make his cows give blood insteadof milk ; which the poor beasts accordingly did, to theastonishment of the milkers. A great many more pranVthis description are recorded which it might I- useful for anyone afflicted with doubts as to the existence of witches to study. // ear Giffard. carefully. But as Sir Thomas has convinced us, we may passthem by, and go on to cheerfuller things. There is much lovely country round Bideford, of which Ishould speak more fully were not my space so small, but I cannotrefrain from mentioning Wear Giffard which lies a little way off the road to Torrington, and possesses an old manor house with abanqueting hall of exceeding beaut}, as well as a church which 374 THE ESTUARY OF THE TORRIDGE ch. xx stands so charmingly upon a slope above the Torridge that itis in itself an ample recompense for the small fatigue of goingthere. Now those who are bound from Bideford to Ilfracombe maycross the bridge, if they will, and ride along a good road on thefurther bank till they round the parting of the Tamar and theTorridge, and see old Barnstaple lying on a stream which cannotbe compared in beauty with its sister river. But for my part,I could never find anything in Barnstaple which repaid
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