Abbreviations

Bentley E W Bentley, Oakford: the history of a Devon parish, Tiverton, 1982.

BIOS British Institute of Organ Studies.

BL British Library, London.

Bodl. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

C Cl R Calendar of Close Rolls preserved in the PRO, London, (q.v.), 1892–.

C Clar SP Calendar of Clarendon State Papers.

CIPM Calendar of Inquisitiones post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the PRO, London.

CPR Calendar of Patent rolls preserved in the PRO, 1891–.

CSPD Calendar of State Papers Domestic, HMSO (q.v.), London.

CU Arch Cambridge University Archives, preserved in CUL (q.v.).

CUL Cambridge University Library.

CUP Cambridge University Press.

D & C Exeter Archives of the Dean & Chapter, Exeter Cathedral, MSS.

DCNQ Devon Notes and Queries.

DCRS Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 7 The Close, Exeter; their collections are deposited with the WCSL (q.v.).

DNB Dictionary of National Biography, OUP (q.v.).

DRO Devon Record Office, Castle Street, Exeter.

EcHR Economic History Review.

EHR English Historical Review.

EPNS English Place Name Society.

Fees H C Maxwell-Lyte, ed., The Book of Fees, 3 vols., HMSO 1920–1931.

Feudal Aids Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the PRO, AD1284–1431, 6 vols., HMSO 1898–1931.

FRC Family Records Centre, Myddleton St, Islington, London.

GLRO Greater London Record Office, 40 Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB.

Harding Lt. Col. W Harding, The History of Tiverton, 2 vols., 1845–7.

Harl. Soc. Harleian Society publications.

Harrison J F C Harrison, The Common People, Fontana, p/b, 1984.

Hingeston-R F C Hingeston-Randolph, ed., The Episcopal Registers of the Diocese of Exeter, 10 vols., Exeter, 1886–1915.

HMC Historical Manuscripts Commission, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London.

HMSO His/Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Hoskins W G Hoskins, Devon, New Edition, Newton Abbot, 1972.

IGI International Geological Index, see page 2 of main text.

Ipm Inquisition post mortem.

L & P Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, preserved in the PRO, BL, and elsewhere etc., 21 vols., 1864–1929.

New Grove A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S Sadie, 20 vols., 1981.

OUP Oxford University Press.

PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Wills proved there are deposited at the FRC, London.

Polwhele R Polwhele, The History of Devonshire, 3 vols., 1793–1806.

PRO Public Record Office, main building at Ruskin Avenue, Kew, London.

PRS Publications of the Pipe Roll Society.

RBOB A Freeman, Records of British Organ-Builders 940–1660, pub. in Dictionary of Organs and Organists, London, 1921.

Spurway List Deeds listed in a notebook belonging to Charles Spurway, lord of the manors of Oakford and Spurway, Devon, in the late 19th century.

Statutes Statutes of the Realm (from Magna Carta to the end of the reign of Queen Anne) and a chronological Index, Record Commission, 10 vols., London 1810–1828.

TDA Transactions of the Devon Association.

VCH Victoria County History of the appropriate county.

Venn J & J A Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Pt I, to 1751, 4 vols., CUP, 1922–1927.

WANHM Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine.

WANHS Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society.

WCSL West Country Studies Library, Castle Street, Exeter.