The Blackmore country . re servants to Wichehalses,and one may recall the circumstance that inchapter lxx. of Lorna Doone John Babb isrepresented as shooting and capturing MajorWade. Ursula was not so ignorant as manyof her gossips, and upon her marriage toRichard Johnson, a sojourner, could sign hername—a feat of which the bridegroom wasincapable. Her long life reached its terminationin 1826, when she was, so to speak, within sightof ninety. Seven years later a locally well-rememberedvicar, the Rev. Matthew Murdy, came to Lynton,and being keenly interested in the old ladysstories, began a col
The Blackmore country . re servants to Wichehalses,and one may recall the circumstance that inchapter lxx. of Lorna Doone John Babb isrepresented as shooting and capturing MajorWade. Ursula was not so ignorant as manyof her gossips, and upon her marriage toRichard Johnson, a sojourner, could sign hername—a feat of which the bridegroom wasincapable. Her long life reached its terminationin 1826, when she was, so to speak, within sightof ninety. Seven years later a locally well-rememberedvicar, the Rev. Matthew Murdy, came to Lynton,and being keenly interested in the old ladysstories, began a collection of them. Subse-quently two friends of his, Dr and Miss Cowell,entered into his labours by pumping UrsulaFry, a native of Pinkworthy on Exmoor, andAggie Norman. Both were tough old creatures,the former dying in 1856, at the age of ninety,and the latter in i860, when she was eighty-three. In Mrs Norman, who passed a gooddeal of her time in a hut built by her husbandon the top of the Castle Rock, in the Valley of. I
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