LUNDY-ISLAND, (Devon) though 50 m. in the sea, off the N. W. coast of Devonshire, has springs of fresh water. It is 5 m.
long and 2 broad, but so incompassed with inaccessible rocks, that it has but one entrance to it, so narrow, that 2 men
can scarce go abreast. It is reckoned in the H. of Branton. It had once both a fort and a chapel. The S. part of it is
indifferent good soil, but the N. part of it is pretty barren, and has a high pyramidical rock, called the Constable. Here
are horses, kine, hogs, and goats, with great store of sheep and rabbets; but their chief commodity is fowl, with which it
abounds much, their eggs being very thick on the ground at their season of breeding. No venomous creature will live in
this island, which, in the R. of Edward III. bel. to the Lutterels, and of late to the Greenvills. In the R. of Hen. VIII.
one Will. Morisco, who had conspired to murder him at Woodstock, fled to this island, which he fortified, turned pirate,
and did much damage to this coast, but was taken by surprize at length, with 16 of his accomplices, and put to death.