MOULTON-SOUTH, (Devon) on the same stream. 146 cm. 183 mm. from London. This, as well as the former, was anciently royal
demesne, and was held in the R. of Edward I. by William Ld. Martin, by serjeancy to find a man with a bow and 3 arrows, to
attend the Earl of Glocester when he went to Gower to hunt. In the R. of Richard II. the manor came to the crown, for want
of issue-male of the children of James Audley, to whom it had passed by marriage; and Q. Eliz. having alienated it, the
burgesses of the T. bought it, and they and the mayor are now Lds. of it, paying a fee-farm rent to the King. This corp.
which once sent members to Pt. in the R. of Edw. I. consists of a mayor, 18 capital burgesses, a recorder, town-clerk, and
2 serjeants at mace. The Ld. of the royalty is, or was lately, Mr. Hatch. Here is a Mt. on S. and of them two famous ones,
viz. S. before the 10th of April, and the S. before Michaelmas-day, which are well furnished with all sorts of cattle,
wares, and merchandize. Their chief mfs. are serges, shalloons, and felts; and great quantities of wool brought from the
country are bought up here every S. In the year 1684, a merchant of London, a native of this T. built and endowed a fr.
sc. here; besides which, here is a ch. sc. There are certain lands in this p. called Brimridge, formerly the estate of
judge Doderidge.