Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . e closed in by the dilapidated ruin of the east corner,with a vertical loop-hole in the fragment of the inner wall yetstanding, that seems to have enfiladed the principal *The window of the great hall seems to have been in ancient times,the place of deposit for their scanty library.— —For Eustace much had poredUpon a huge romantic tome,In the hall -window of his at the antique dome Of Caxton or de Worde.—Scotts Marmion. tWe cannot sufficiently regret that Leland—whose minute and fait
Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . e closed in by the dilapidated ruin of the east corner,with a vertical loop-hole in the fragment of the inner wall yetstanding, that seems to have enfiladed the principal *The window of the great hall seems to have been in ancient times,the place of deposit for their scanty library.— —For Eustace much had poredUpon a huge romantic tome,In the hall -window of his at the antique dome Of Caxton or de Worde.—Scotts Marmion. tWe cannot sufficiently regret that Leland—whose minute and faithfulresearches are held in merited esteem—did not visit Okehampton castle:passing from Great Torrington to Launceston, he mentions Lydlord bridgeonly, and that as a place which he had never seen. HISTORY OF OKEHAMPTOX. 55 Adieu, proud, though fallen monument of baronialgreatness ! When ambition distracts ; when the cares oflife oppress; when discontent harasses, or the liand ofaffliction bears heavy, it were good for a man to come hereand read a tale of the times of SECTION VIIL—PART II. But gin ye be a brugh as auld as me, Therell be, if that date come, Ill wad a boddle Some fewer whigmeleeries in your noddle.—Bums. Okehampton.—The Feudal Charters. «s^ EW boroughs of equal antiquity with Okehamptoncan trace with more clearness the origin andprogress of their liberties. We have seen thatBaldwin* the Viscount, as he is termed inDomesday book, held this town on the tenureof knights service: there was also a fine orquit-rent to the crown of four shillings de Courtenay, in the time of Henry III., treated thisplace as a free burgh; but the rights of the burgesses were notmerely nominal at a date yet earlier, as appears from thecharter itself: it proposes to confirm to them all the libertiesand privileges they held in the time of Richard (Fitz Baldwin)and of Robertf the son of Reginald, Maude Abarenges hiswife, and of Hawise,J mother of the grante
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