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The chorographical description, or survey of the county of Devon, with the city and county of Exeter; containing matter of history, antiquity, chronology, the nature of the country, commodities and government thereof; with sundry other things worthy observation. Collected by the travail of
Tristram
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Unlike his antiquarian contemporaries, Risdon's work does not overly concern itself with genealogy and reads more like a travel book, apparently describing parishes in the same order as he visited them. Concerning his literary style, the opinion of Joyce
Youings, former Professor of English Social
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Risdon also left a note-book in which he had collected genealogical and heraldic information, mostly about the prominent families of South West
England and particularly of Devon. Consisting of 188 foolscap leaves, many left blank, it was transcribed and edited by James Dallas and Henry Porter and
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This publication was based on the copy of Risdon's manuscript which belonged to John Coles of
Stonehouse which after having been compared with others appeared to the editors be the most correct. No work has been done to compare the various manuscript and print versions, and Youings has said that
204:"... the whole town, within little more than an hour, was consumed; the people in the mean time so amazed that they knew not what to do. Many were burned; namely, one Hartnoll, a blind man, lying in his bed, was carried to the market place for his safety, and yet there burnt..."
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He married Pascoe Chafe, the daughter of Thomas Chafe of Exeter, on 2 December 1608 and they had four sons and three daughters. From about 1605 to the 1630s he devoted his time to the study of antiquities, especially those of Devon, and the result of his labours was his
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in Oxford, though he left the university without taking any degree. This was supposedly because of the death of his half-sister, Thomazin Barry, upon which he inherited the family estate at
Winscott, which required his personal attention.
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62:. He was able to devote most of his life to writing this work. After he completed it in about 1632 it circulated around interested people in several manuscript copies for almost 80 years before it was first published by
271:, many copies of the manuscript entered into public circulation, none of them exactly agreeing with the others, each having something redundant or deficient. Ten copies of the manuscript are known to survive.
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of 1630, which was based on the courses of the rivers. Instead he decided to begin "...In the east part of the county, and with the sun, to make my gradation into the south, holding course about by the river
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in a very inferior form. A full version was not published until 1811. Risdon also collected information about genealogy and heraldry in a note-book; this was edited and published in 1897.
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published in London in 1897. In the introduction to the book the editors date the majority of its compilation to between 1608 and 1628, making it contemporaneous with his writing of
98:, where Tristram Risdon stated that the family had been seated since before 1274. Risdon also stated that the family originated in Gloucestershire, where during the reign of King
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However, in organising his survey Risdon chose not to follow Pole's method, which was by the units of county government, and he also rejected the system adopted by
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mentioned above, the Lysons brothers credit it and Pole's collections for the details of the descent of the principal landed property in the Devon volume of their
510:, (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 648, pedigree of Risdon
90:, England. He was the eldest son of William Risdon (d.1622) and his wife Joan (née Pollard). William was the younger son of Giles Risdon (1494–1583) of
792:
Maxted, Ian; Brayshay, Mark (1996). "Aid to research: A list of historical works on the topography of south-west counties". In
Brayshay, Mark (ed.).
191:], to visit such places as are offered to be seen upon her banks. Lastly, to take notice of such remarkable things as the north parts afford".
415:] rebuilt it in a place more convenient, at his own cost; whereof (see the fate!) his own daughter first possessed the place for her burial".
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289:. It contained the general description of the county, but Chapple died before he could complete the work. The first complete edition of the
199:'s writing, "The three hundred pages of topographical detail which follow make extremely tedious reading, unredeemed by Westcote's style."
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Prowse, Arthur B. (1894). "Index to Risdon's Survey of Devon: Personal Names. Edition of 1811, including the additions up to 1810".
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in 1605 and completed it in 1630. Internal evidence shows, however, that it was not completed until 1632 at the earliest.
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Risdon, of
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History at Exeter
University, was that although his general description has echoes of
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until this is done it will remain unknown exactly what Risdon himself wrote.
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Moore, Thomas (1829). "Tristram Risdon, the
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Risdon, Tristram (1897). Dallas, James; Porter, Henry G. (eds.).
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Magna Britannia. Volume the Sixth, containing Devonshire, part II
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The Chorographical Description or Survey of the County of Devon
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After a local education, Tristram Risdon studied either at
817:. Vol. 2. London: Robert Jennings. pp. 370–373.
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Collections towards a description of the country of Devon
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Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon
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Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon
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Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association
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Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association
836:Risdon, Tristram (1811). Rees; et al. (eds.).
364:Joan Pollard was the daughter of George Pollard of
126:. He died at Winscott in 1640 and was interred in
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796:. University of Exeter Press. pp. 136–176.
25:The title page of the 1811 edition of Risdon's
862:. University of Exeter Press. pp. 50–61.
842:(updated ed.). Plymouth: Rees and Curtis.
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468:(1791). Pole, Sir John-William de la (ed.).
347:gives his arms with the tinctures reversed:
860:Topographical Writers in South-West England
850:The Note-Book of Tristram Risdon, 1608–1628
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351:, as does his contemporary Devon historian
885:Hawker, J. M. (1875). "Sketch of Risdon".
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