Beschreibung
With a Catalogue of all the Bishops of Tawton, Crediton, and Exeter. And Authentic Memoirs of their Lives. To which are added, The Office and Duties (as of Old) of the sworn Officers of the City, compiled and digested from the works of Hooker, Izacke, and Others. ***Scarce 1765 true first edition. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece showing the view of the city of Exeter. ***Very good in contemporaneous colour-marbled and half-leather boards, green calf spine with six raised compartments, with gilt titles to original red leather spine label to second compartment. Tan coloured front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Please note that the title-page is incomplete, with only the top section remaining [however, a printed off "facsimile title-page" from a scan of the copy held at Harvard College Library, USA shows the complete title-page with all the details below the third line of the sub-title beyond the words Sieges it has sustained, which is where the remnant of the title-page in the book ends - will be included with the book for useful reference - see scans]. Tiny contemporaneous red and cream booksellers label to top of front pastedown: 'Joseph Pollard Bookseller and Publisher, Truro, Penzance and Falmouth'. Edges of boards rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Very small split to head of spine. Light foxing to some pages. Leather spine tight. ***190mm x 120mm. ***323 pages. ***'The main Sea is not distant from the City above eight miles, out of which cometh an Arm, serving for the Port of the same; which, as doth appear by certain Records, did sometimes flow up to the very Walls of the City where Boats and Vessels were wont to load and unload all Kinds of Wares and Mechandize----And first: Whereas Lady Isabella de Fortibus Countess of Aumerle and Devon, his Ancestrix, had built certain Weirs upon the River Exe --- leaving between the Wears a certain Aperture, or open Space of thirty foot; through which all Boats or Vessels without Let or Hindrance, might have, and had, their usual Passage and Re-passage to and form the Sea; the said Earl, therefore, to deprive the Citizens of the exceeding great Advantage they reaped from the easy Communication they had by this Means to the Sea, caused the same to be filled up with great Trees, Timber, and Stone; so not even the smallest Boat could pass or repass. ***In order yet further to effect his malicious Purposes, and to engross to himself the gain which accrued from the Lading and Unlading Wares and Merchandizes within the Port and River, he built a Kay ad a crane at his Town of Topsham, distant from the City about three miles; and by his great Power compelled all Merchants and Captains of ships bringing Merchandizes to this Port, to lade and unlade them there only. And from thence, ever since, all Goods have been brought to the City by Horse, Cart, or Waggon, and carried thither in like manner to the great benefit of the Earl and his Tenants, tho' to the Trouble and Hindrance of the City, and the Merchants thereof. He also intruded upon the Liberties of the Citizens, taking from them by Force the Fishing in the River Exe, and otherways oppressing them to the utmost of his Power. **The Motive for this Conduct of the Earl's was the great Displeasure he conceived against the Mayor and Citizens on the following occasion: His Cater coming hither to buy Fish, when there were only three Pots in the Market, and the Bishop's Caterer coming also for the like Purpose, a Strife arose between them which should have the Whole of the tree Poets of Fish----' (Quote from pages 8-9). ***A nice original copy of the true first edition in nineteenth century colour marbled and half-leather boards. ***A scarce antiquarian title on the ancient history and description of Exeter, of interest to academics and historians researching the history of Exeter, and collectors or rare antiquarian first editions. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4646
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