Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . Tavistock. It avers that the coach, of which she was so proud, may still be seen, amid the glimpses of the moon. rattling through the streets of that town, on its way to Okehampton Park, from the seat at which she died. But the vehicle is now a coach of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of the roof; and Lady Howard rides in it a pale and sheeted spectre, as her skeleton hound runs before her, to bring nightly a blade of grass from Okehampton Park to the
Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . Tavistock. It avers that the coach, of which she was so proud, may still be seen, amid the glimpses of the moon. rattling through the streets of that town, on its way to Okehampton Park, from the seat at which she died. But the vehicle is now a coach of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of the roof; and Lady Howard rides in it a pale and sheeted spectre, as her skeleton hound runs before her, to bring nightly a blade of grass from Okehampton Park to the gateway of Fitzford, a penance doomed to endure till the last blade of grass shall be plucked, when the world will l)e at an *Lacly Grenville left a daughter by Sir Ricliard, named Elizabeth,who married Colonel William Lennard. tBrid.^es MSS. SECTION IX.—PART II. This was the charter of the land. Old English Song. Le Roi et ses Ministres pent etre se feraient lire ces memoires, quiassurement ne sent pas ceux dun ignorant.—Gil Bias. Charter of James IGHTS not strictly authorized by the Courtenaygrants,* in time grew prescriptive here, andthe burgesses seem to have acted in somerespects as a body corporate long beforef theyobtained the royal sanction to their privileges; inthe 21 James I., the liberties of this place wereformally recognized and confirmed by the Crownin a charter which contains the following reservation, thatthey, the portreeve and his successors, the burgesses of the *Burgus de Okehamptone ; Dominus ejusdera Dominus Hugo de Cortenay(Sheriffs return) Madox Firtna Bittxi. tOkeharapton \ Nomina diversorum prepositorum burgi prcccticti ut patetBurgus t per antiquas Johes Markes. II Robtus Red 15 Johes Braddeston I Gulmas Lemon 2 Rogerus Drake 9 Johes, at Beare 11 Johes Strada Ed. ILEd. in. 24GalmusHammond 29 Johes StondonHen. IV. 3 Lawrence King pori/rcveHen. V. 5 & 6 Johes Cowle 8 Johes Hobbe Hen. VI. I Galfues Den
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