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Changes in Travelling on the Road between Exeter and Plymouth during the last Sixty Years

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. XVII, (1885), pp. 450-457.

by

The Late Rev. Treasurer Hawker, M.A.

Communicated by the Rev. W. Harpley, M.A.

Prepared by Michael Steer

This Paper was presented at the Association’s July 1885, Seaton meeting. By way of an introduction to its delivery, the Rev. Harpley stated “The following paper was offered for acceptance in May last year with the characteristic remark, "Do what you like with it." At that time the lamented author was seriously ill; but some of us had not abandoned hope that he might be spared to come among us again. A short time, however, before the commencement of the Meeting at Newton Abbot death intervened; and meeting as we did under the shadow of so great a loss, I felt it would but aggravate the universal grief were the paper then read. Notwithstanding, therefore, that special reference is made towards the close of the paper to Newton, I took upon myself the responsibility of deciding to keep the paper in reserve until the present occasion. This decision has since been approved by members of the deceased author's family, and now I have the mournful pleasure of communicating the paper to the Association”. For the genealogist, the Rev. Hawker’s final Paper becomes an invaluable source of the names of those associated with our county’s history. The Paper, from a copy of a rare journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.